Blue Lei

It would be a lie if I were to suggest I know what all the ins and outs of the modern educational system are; a few years have passed since I last encountered schooling in any country below degree level, and even there I have only been a visiting player, on the teaching side of [...]

I’ve had an idea for a TV show and I think someone should make it, preferably with a game designer as the presenter (Jason VandenBerghe? Brenda Brathwaite? Any volunteers? Best read my idea first). Surely there should be some room in the schedules between Gordon Ramsay shouting at people and teenage songstresses crying.As a game [...]

In Norway the receding ice sheet is proving to be something of a bonus for archeologists, who are finding some ancient and splendid finds, nicely preserved in the millennia old ice. It occurs to me that you could make a game based around plundering these finds, where you find more and more sophisticated items. It [...]

While reading Chris Moon’s book “One Step Beyond” the other night I started to wonder if the large standing armies, like the ones the British and Americans have, need a serious and extensive re-design. Chris Moon was a sapper, and he incurred his injuries while clearing a minefield in Mozambique. Clearly, his skills are exactly [...]

I have posted this idea before, on my own blog, but the more I think about it the more I like it. More importantly, the broader the idea becomes. Basically, this is a plan for incentivising giving to charity, potentially pursuading people give to the same charity several times. Part of me thinks that there’s [...]

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