A holiday tradition, for me and my dad:

The 102nd King William’s College Quiz is out.

The Social Shopping Faceoff

Following Jason’s My Year in Cities, 2006 (kottke.org).

Here’s lists of cities visited this year:

(The reason I’m doing this is I’m collecting lists for some new Wists features, which I’ll be able to show shortly).

New York, NY
Philadelpia, PA
Austin, TX
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
London, England
Geneva, Switzerland
Paris, France
Barcelona, Spain

and bonnie Selkirk!

Threads, was a drama, about the build up and aftermath of a full scale nuclear war - like ‘The Day After’ but less sanitized. It terrified me when I first saw it in 1984, it still terifies me.

Nuclear War was the anxiety of my generation, as we grew up. Yet today, in part due to the incompetence of the Bush foreign policy, the nuclear threat is possibly greater than ever.

Watch Threads and realize just how pathetic war is.

The NYT takes a look at Diller and Scofidio’s solid design of the new Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston:

Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston - Architecture - Review - New York Times

All four of Adam Curtis’ excellent documentaries about the mechanisms behind ‘manufactured consent’ are on Google video.

Here is the last and poss the best:

The Century Of The Self - Part 4 of 4 - By Adam Curtis - Google Video

Britney Spears’ Crotch-A-Thon Inspires London Adverts