Marketers of the Apocalypse ⇥

The billboards carry a stark message on a sunset backdrop: Judgment Day is coming May 21, 2011.

I have that day off work. Should be a blast.

A fringe U.S. evangelical Christian group says it has erected some 2,000 ads around the world, including in 17 Canadian cities, advising of the Second Coming and salvation for true believers. Everyone else, it warns, will suffer a powerful earthquake and five months of hell on earth.

See also Nostradamus, et. al.

The warning is the latest in a long list of apocalyptic dates red-circled by extremist religious organizations.

See above.

Mr. Camping has been wrong before. He wrote a book predicting the world would end in 1994.

Well, Kurt Cobain did die that year. I guess that counts for something.