See http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97jul/preview.htm for a very brief blurb on the magazine's article entitled "Zero" regarding when the millenium comes; see the magazine itself for details. Your correspondent was disappointed that there was no replay of the joke from Saul Bass's film "Why Man Creates:" First cartoon charcter: I've discovered the zero. Second cartoon character: What? First cartoon character: Nothing, nothing. --ado