So this is an idea I’ve had for an age — it involves the redistribution of the nation’s wealth through a weekly lottery. The idea is that each taxpayer is charged £1 per week for the chance to become a millionaire. In the UK, there are about 30 million taxpayers and so each week we […]
So this is really a costume or video game boss idea but really I’m sure it’ll work in a number of environments including the classroom. Essentially the concept of the Tumour Piñata is this: a person climbs into this papier-mâché thing that is loaded with sweets and corn syrup blood. It looks like a big […]
The simplest way to save jobs and protect the quality of editorial content is to charge readers. However if a poorly implemented online paywall is installed as that by The Times, it is apparent that readers simply stop engaging with that online edition and move elsewhere for news. The FT has a strong online subscription […]
With films going the way of all action no plot and a lot of modern art so inane, perhaps it is time for video games to become the art form of the 21st century. Films combine storytelling and character analysis with a stark visual styles that have the power to astound, but this type of […]
The tube in central London is a mess, no more so than the Hammersmith and City Line that is the only line in all the world that doesn’t tell you how long it will be until the next train arrives. I’d be willing to wager that outside of rush hour, every train on the pink […]
Why can’t I make gravy? Why do headphone wires always form knots when you put them down for a second? Why do I like songs sung by females giving empowering advice to other females? Why can I never find my socks? What happens when a tornado meets a volcano? Why aren’t new films better than […]
IV seems, like Chinese superstition, to be the death of all when it comes to movies. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was so bad South Park had George Lucas and Steven Spielberg raping Indy. Star Wars Episode I gave us Jar-Jar Binks the single most hated character in movie history. Superman […]
The other month in class, we were taking phởtos to put in the kids journals and there was a photo of my co-teacher and a student with their backs turned towards the camera. You couldn’t see either face, just the back and I wondered which was the student and which was the teacher. You really […]
everyday words are boring and commonplace but just a little adjustment and they become awesome: landlord: lord of land fireman: man of fire! postman: man of post!! milkman: man of milk!!!!! chairman: man of chair… zomg this thing is gold. human being: being human … so spiritual floodlights: lights of flood… ok, scratch that one goldfish: fish of gold!! we’re back […]
This TV show would pit eight contestants in charge of looking after three little lambs. Over the weeks they would compete in various challenges to earn better living conditions for their lambs. The lambs would start in a pretty bare barn and then end up in the lap of luxury (say nouveau riche fairy tale […]