The PostApoc Trends
Not everything falls into our scenarios -- there are trends, hints, political speeches, human behavior, and worse. We provide links to these, for their probative value.


PostApoc Trends News Items

from Reuters, Thu, Jan 10, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080109/od_nm/huntingdog_dc;_ylt=An5NlCLA5R.5Go_vUSggvJYDW7oF
Bird dog steps on gun, kills hunter
"A Houston-area man was killed in a hunting accident after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun in the back of a pick-up truck, triggering a blast that pierced the vehicle and the hunter's leg, a local sheriff said. Perry Price, a 46-year-old math teacher, shot a goose on Saturday then put his gun in the back of the truck where the dog was waiting to retrieve the bird."
The ApocoDocs say:
We have long imagined that other species would fight back. We didn't figure it would begin with man's best friend.

from Telegraph.co.uk, Mon, Jan 21, 2008
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/fashion/main.jhtml?xml=/fashion/2007/01/29/efmenintro29.xml&page=1
PostApoc Fashion
"The post-Apocalyptic mood was reinforced by the assemblage of detritus which decorated the clothes, as if the wearers had rummaged through piles of discarded junk, finding old cassette tapes, robot toys, computer innards, bits and pieces of old electrical equipment, feathers, beads and old cables and saved them as talismans, glueing, stitching and tying them to their jackets and coats."
The ApocoDocs say:
More like "Zoolander"'s Derelique than "MadMax," but still it's scary to imagine prêt-à-porter of this ilk.

from University of California - Davis, Mon, Jan 21, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080117093448.htm
Math Models Snowflakes In Extraordinary Detail
"Three-dimensional snowflakes can now be grown in a computer using a program developed by mathematicians at UC Davis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. No two snowflakes are truly alike, but they can be very similar to each other, said Janko Gravner, a mathematics professor at UC Davis. Why they are not more different from each other is a mystery, Gravner said. Being able to model the process might answer some of these questions."
The ApocoDocs say:
It's so encouraging to know that when all the snow has disappeared we can always grow them in a computer!

from Associated Press, Sun, Feb 3, 2008
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080203/ap_on_re_us/obit_butz;_ylt=Arlxp2d2AnCut3U8ARBszupI2ocA
Butz, former agriculture secretary, dies
"WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Earl L. Butz, an outspoken U.S. agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke and once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He was 98.... The free-market advocate had a relaxed and earthy style that won him acclaim as an after-dinner speaker but caused problems in his public life."
The ApocoDocs say:
People remember Butz's public gaffs but his real legacy is corn, corn, corn. In the 70s he told farmers to "plant from fence row to fence row." Thus, the high fructose fattening of America was born.