Flutterby™! : Happy 2010

Happy passing of an arbitrary cultural moment. Apparently some annoying grammar freaks are proposing that there's a correct pronunciation for 2010. Frankly, I don't care if you pronounce it "twenty ten" or "two thousand ten", it'll always be 2.010E3 to me.

Of course the "new year" is bringing out all the end-of-the-world predictors and whackjobs: Biblical scholar predicts rapture for May 21, 2011:

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years.

Uh. Yeah. Guy's got cred. After all he's made predictions before.

Other amusement that came across the FaceTwitSpace feeds was that end-of-year observations tended to fall into three categories: "Reno or Vegas?", "celebrating N years sober" and "which vintage champagne is best?". In roughly ascending age.