The current Mayan Countdown has us at 346 days left until the end of the world, so we here at 8bitrocket.com have decided to spend some time looking for stories that we think show that something weird is going on this year.

The next Sign Of Doomsday: The Kindle Fire Holding It’s Own Against The Apple iPad

It looks like the Kindle fire sold about 5 million units over the holidays, while the iPad sales dropped year over year from 15 million to 12 million.  That’s still a lot of iPads. However, things are looking good for the Kindle Fire…and for app developers.   It would be great to have a real alternative to iTunes to sell apps, and it looks like the Kindle Store might become that alternative.

At the same time, development tool vendors like Ansca Mobile  ate now providing tools to specifically target the Kindle Fire.   This  year could be the turning point where we start seeing Apple dominance start to fade…or this could just be a weird year.

Now, if they would just make the iCade or Atari arcade for the Kindle Fire.  Then things would really heat up! (hint: please hardware gods, let’s do this).

Is the Quickening, er Doomsday er Armageddon coming this year?   Is it just the Winter Solstice?* Is this another sign of the end times?  Did Ancient Aliens dictate the end of the world to people on Yucatán Peninsula 100′s of years ago or did some old Mayan guy just run out of space when trying  to mark upcoming birthdays on his stone calendar? Only 349 more days until we get the answer. What else will happen in the coming months?

Tune in to find out.

*yes.