James May builds a house from Lego

I'm not going to disagree totally with this, but James May has been doing quite a lot lately to raise the profile of science and engineering, and simply blowing off a project like this with disdain seems a bit shallow. It's part of a larger push by the BBC to get more kids into engineering, and while it's too early to say for definite, there are signs that it's working.

Yes, giving surplus lego to a kid down the street is a good thing, but every now and again it's worth supporting larger projects with greater reach.

I don't know if you've read Good Omens, but there's a bit in that where each demon is reporting on what they've done recently. Several talk about the individuals they've tempted, and the near certainty of a soul each. Then Crowley says he managed to tie up the mobile phone network in all London for about 30 minutes around lunchtime. The others can't see what that has to do with anything, and Crowley is at a loss to explain how the frustration and anger will cause tens of thousands of souls to be one step closer to Hell.

Sometimes the big picture is hard to see. Maybe this isn't an example, maybe this is a worthless stunt, maybe this has no long term effect.

But then again, maybe it has.