I know, the appropriate followup to a header like that would probably be a moan about Christmas (and I did walk around a department store in Singapore last week to carol muzak, though the first sighting I had of it was a gift shop in Kalamunda, Perth, stuffed like a turkey and looking like a tinseled wonderland in early October).
But that hasn’t surprised me too much this year. I’ve come to accept that capitalism sets the clock back on stuff like that.
The thing that’s amused me is the “Best of 2008″ lists, which used to start flooding into the mailbox in the last week of December.
The picture in this post is the Global Seed Vault, number 6 in Time Magazine’s 50 Best Inventions of 2008 published October 27.
If you’re a reader, check out Amazon’s Best Books of 2008, if you’re a young reader then head to the YALSA Best Books for Young Adults 2008, and if you can’t read then kick back with Metacritic’s Best Albums of 2008 played on your Best Audiophile Equipment of 2008.
Because, as we all know, not a lot gets done in the way of creative arts or inventing during the lazy November/December months.
