And so it begins ...
Twenty twelve. The year it's all supposed to go south.
If we are to believe certain Internet conspiracy theories, something very, very bad is going to happen on Dec. 21, 2012. That's the date the Mayan calendar -- which has been chugging along like a well-oiled Mesoamerican machine for a whopping 5,126 years -- abruptly comes to an unceremonious end. And then what? Nobody really knows.