Word out of Haiti that upwards of half a million people may be dead from the earthquake this week is a ghastly thing for sure. And the TV .snip of Pat Robertson says 'they have been cursed' and that Haiti 'swore a pact with the devil' rubs me very much the wrong way, but that's not worth rehashing.
However, it does once again go to why my colleague Cliff and I have been busy with personal planning and projects since if the predictive linguistics are right about what happens between now and 2012, this week's horror won't even rate a warm-up act status for what still lies ahead.
Also not worth restating (but I will anyway) is that the predictive linguistics fall off to near zero (which is what a 97% reduction in data points after 2012 figures to) since our readers already know that is either because the internet is displaced, the grid/energy has failed, or that's a processing artifact and no one will be using the net in 2013.