The Ends of the World

The prophesiers have almost always predicted that some major events would happen in their own immediate future. Both Jesus and Paul anticipated that "the end" would happen sometime in the first century CE. They were wrong. Thousands have predicted major events ever since. All of these predictions share one attribute: none has ever come true.

(http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm, a multi-faith group)

This is the way the world ends

End of the sun
Destruction of the moon
Falling down of a massive meteorite, giant molecular cloud, star, galaxy
Shift of the earth's axis
Weather-related natural disasters (Ice-age, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunami, etc.)
Pollution
Atomic explosions / Electromagnetic pulses
Attacks by space aliens
Return of the christ / Coming of the antichrist
Armageddon / Wrapping up of the world by God
Global pandemic
Sucked into a black hole
Gamma ray burst
Shrinking of the universe
Collapsing of the universe
Freezing of the core of the earth
Human related conflicts (Mass insanity, Global War, Terrorism, Demography)
Animals killing the human race
Switched off from life
World getting darker / End of light
End of the universe
No more energetic resources
Economy collapses

List of prophetic systems

Globally, to make a good prophecy, you are willing to extract isolated concepts from a variety of sources and merge them into an internally consistent prophecy of the end of the world as we know it (religioustolerance.org).

Adding the ASCII values of each letter of a name, and finding 666 as a result. (http://pages.prodigy.net/cort/gates.htm)
Using mcq tests. (http://reocities.com/Area51/1047/)
Interpreting texts, preferably mystic or religious (Paco Rabanne with Nostradamus, the Bible, Maya calendar, etc.)
Interpreting criptyc texts that could have multiple meanings (Nostradamus used to mix up in the language in his writings, as well as introducing mysterious expressions)
Playing with numbers and letters to reveal desired matters, like finding the word MABUS or the number 666
Adding random numbers to find a date (Numbers of verses, numbers in the bible, etc.)
Translating numbers in an other era (Jesus died in 30-APR-07, he will resurrect in 2030-APR-07)
Interpreting inaccurate measures (cf. Planet X)
Predicting a dark future for currently existing matters (Robots and nanotechnologies will kill us in the future)
Looking for a new millennium in any calendar. The year 2000 = 155 BE for Baha'is, 1921 SE for Hindus, 5760 AM for Jews, 1421 H. for Muslims, 301 KE for Sikhs, 1368 Y for Zoroastrians

List of websites

Old Geocities archives
http://reocities.com/Athens/

http://reocities.com/Area51/

http://reocities.com/ResearchTriangle/

http://reocities.com/CapitolHill/

Critics
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm

http://www.exitmundi.nl/

http://www.theawl.com/slug/the-end-of-the-world-2/

Messages from outer space
http://www.zetatalk.com/

A personal end of the world
http://www.two.cc/

http://nostradamus.nostradamia.com/1cGrandConflit/Default.php

http://www.propheties.it/ourprophecies.htm

http://purpleslinky.com/offbeat/nostradamus-the-black-president-and-the-end-of-the-world-in-2012/

2012
http://2012wiki.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

http://www.greatdreams.com/end-world.htm

http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm

http://www.endoftime2012.com/introduction.php

http://www.doomsdaytube.com/

General
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/End%20of%20the%20World/end_of_the_world.htm

http://www.aquiziam.com/end_of_the_world_predictions.html

http://www.circlesoflight.com/reality-creation/index2.html

http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm

http://www.doomsdayguide.org/index.htm

Quotes
http://strangewondrous.net/browse/subject/e/end+of+the+world

Existing projects
http://rudy.ca/doomsday.html

http://web.me.com/lorenmadsen/endings/pick_a_year.html

ARPAgeddon : the IPcalypse
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002074.html

Further notes

A website dealing with the end of the world has a black background.