Murray Woodman

People make decisions today with future outcomes in mind. The risk averse will act conservatively and are likely up giving up more than they gain as they take on a defensive position. ie. they have not considered the opportunity cost of what they do. How can we get people to look at their lives from a new perspective? more…

A show to entertain audiences with strength, precision and beauty. more…

Railway lines lessen the quality of life for residents through noise and visual pollution. How can we minimise these problems? more…

A simple game for bored people with not much else to do. more…

TV sets are now so massive that they dominate a room completely. A significant proportion of a room is devoted to them. We need to make more of this space. more…

Apparently extremely flawed diamonds are almost worthless as they have no ornamental value. Not sure if they have industrial value. Some of them get to large sizes – 5 carets. It should be possible to use these low quality diamonds in a decorative manner. more…

I just went to visit the diamond exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in London. The Millennium Diamond was on display along with a number of others. This idea is not new – it is a rehash of a piece of jewelry I saw at the exhibition. The jewelry in this case was a number of coal pieces about the size of a large marble wrapped with diamond studded braces. The pieces were strung together to form a necklace. more…

A dream I experienced lead me to think about economic, cultural and political systems in terms of shared dreams. The participants in a system must believe in the efficacy of it if it is to survive in the long term. How else can one explain the emergence of vastly different forms of economic, cultural and political systems in modern times. more…

1000 Words is a little web service I used to run when I had ASP hosting. Now that I have moved to a Linux box I no longer maintain it. I have, however, released the code for those who want to run it themselves. What does it do? You upload an image via a web form and it converts the pixels into ASCII art. You get to choose the text to be inserted into the image. The code colours it up. An HTML page is returned and is cached for a certain period of time. The page sizes are very big! more…

Discover a city via SMS clues. Engage in competitive quests through your local area. more…