This Week in Awesome (11/27/10)

Hope everyone is having a nice holiday weekend. I trust you're not out partaking in the holiday shopping madness, because you are all smart people with better things to do, and savvy enough to know there are easier ways to score good deals.

I know it's hard to believe, but a good deal of the advertising of decades past would be considered highly offensive today. Would you like to see some examples? (Very Short List via Racked)

Here's a hilariously awful current ad (which is for a web site but looks like a cheesy local TV ad) for a knife store that hopefully will be considered highly offensive by a future generation. (Videogum)

The artist Chris Burden has built a kinetic sculpture that sends hundreds of diecast toy cars cycling around various tracks. If you live in the Los Angeles area, you will be able to see this in person at LACMA once the installation is completed. (Autoblog)

And finally, now that Thanksgiving has passed, we can officially and guiltlessly welcome the Christmas season with another ambitious homeowner's holiday light display programmed to music, though this one has a slightly more, um, esoteric soundtrack. (BoingBoing via Videogum)