Two Ideas

One: lists. Not a new idea, obviously. Start with lists of great music sorted by traditional and non-traditional means. (Note: lists of recipes sorted by ingredient would be handy, since often I want to know what I can do with 4 pounds of butter, two melons, flax seed and licorice.) Then a list of those lists, i.e. list of the top albums/hits by year, then a list of the top years. Then a list of the top makers of lists, followed by a list of meta-list lists, and then a list of ways that makers of exhaustive lists such as this eventually went mad or were killed by the list-hating citizenry of their small town near Vaduz. (Quick: what country is that in? And is it a real country?) As a follow on, how about a story about guys with OCD-like behvaiour working for some spy organization who stumble across the contents of a list without knowing the subject matter and take it to mean something entirely different. Eventually hordes of innocent people are killed by over-zealous spy masters acting on the assumption that the list is a recipe for terrorist activity, or flax-seed, melon and licorice casserole with lots of butter sauce.

Two: People-powered projects. A website to leverage the grass-roots in support of better, more targeted municipal, regional and national projects. Why wait until some group has developed enough influence to push their own agenda... let's ask what should be on the agenda and help to prioritize it.