A few thoughts about the One & Other project:
I have been looking at a few of the archives of plinthers and it occurs to me that the whole thing has the potential to be like a bite-sized Big Brother. This is not a bad thing… imagine being in Big Brother. It goes on for months and months. With the plinth you can have the opportunity to show off, make a point, publicise a cause or whatever you want to do, but without having to give up your job to do it.
It can even be a political platform. See this chap – spending an hour doing a grand job of promoting his political party. Particularly good around the 20-minute mark where he bounces around the plinth on a spacehopper humming the Benny Hill tune.
Also… wouldn’t it be funny, ironic even, if a member of Fathers 4 Justice got selected?  They could dress up as Batman and stand on top of a London landmark for a whole hour with no hassle at all. Might be a problem getting them to come down at the end though.
Just don’t let Andrew see this bloke. I reckon this is what the Thriller dance would have been like if the square had not been chock full of steel bands.
He was great, wasn’t he? I watched him live on the Friday night, and it gave me something to aim for.