Author: Ed Jefferson
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#2: Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Hello! My name is Ed and I am trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, for reasons discussed here! So far in trying to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage films, I have watched 1 Nicolas Cage film, and won the lottery 0 times. But maybe failed TV pilot The Best of Times doesn’t…
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#1: The Best Of Times (1981)
If one were searching for magical events, John Kerry’s unsuccessful 2004 run in the US Presidential election might seem an odd place to start. But almost immediately after he accepted the Democratic nomination, there was a fairly bad omen. As his speech finished, and the convention hall went wild, anyone watching the TV coverage at…
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Explanation
Over the last 6,000 years of recorded civilisation, mankind has asked, and attempted to answer, several important questions: Is there a God? Does life exist on other planets? Can society ever be truly egalitarian? And yet, so far, no-one has attempted to answer this: Is it possible to win the lottery by watching Nicolas Cage…
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Where does Eric Pickles buy his pickles?
The big political question that no-one is willing to talk about is where members of parliament do their shopping. I mean, obviously when they’re in parliament they probably go to that little Tesco Express by Westminster tube station to buy, e.g. a lasagne and a miniature bottle of wine, but what about when they’re at…
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Where does Eric Pickles buy his pickles?
The big political question that no-one is willing to talk about is where members of parliament do their shopping. I mean, obviously when they’re in parliament they probably go to that little Tesco Express by Westminster tube station to buy, e.g. a lasagne and a miniature bottle of wine, but what about when they’re at…
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Executive Class
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment is a special sort of scientific test used mainly by people in HR who don’t know anything about science. It’s a bit like horoscopes but with more boxes to tick: you fill in a questionnaire and it tells you about your unique personality that means you think about things, or…
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The 10 Numbers You’re Most Likely To Read In A Buzzfeed Headline
I tracked the RSS feed for Buzzfeed’s homepage for about a month, collecting data on around 3000 articles. About 40% of the Buzzfeed headlines in my sample contain a number, although that does include years. All the numerology is “genuinely” from the internet. 10. The number 22. The most popular topic for Buzzfeed articles with 22 in…
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Small World Syndrome
The six degrees of separation theory states that everyone in the world is only six social connections away from anyone else (as in, Doug is connected to Fred because they both know Emily). It turns out this theory isn’t strictly speaking true, not least because of isolated tribe, children raised by wolves and so on,…