yay, i'll be out of college by 2012. i'm going to buy a fancy camera to take pretty pictures of the planet coming to kill us.
it's kind of interesting... but nostradamus was a hack (if you predict 80,000 really vague events, people are going to then interpret them to match a couple of real events).
I think the mayan perspective on it is interesting, but it's not going to happen. just like people thought 6/6/06 was the end of the world, people are going to make predictions for this, too.