Year: 2007

New 7 Wonders

THe first global election.

Here’s the New 7 Wonders as voted for by you.

Rome – ColosseumIndia – Taj MahalBrazil – Christ the RedeemerJordan – Petra

Mexico – Chichen ItzaPeru – Machu PicchuChina – Great Wall

The government’s broadcasts to the effect of getting elected seems to have worked.

I’ve been to most of these wonders.

Wander
Rapa Nui is 50 40ft porous statues on a island 2,000 miles in the pacific.
The permanent population of the Easter islands is 3,791.

If you compare that to India, it’s not surprising they didn’t get it.

Never at Sea
The Nazca Lines in the western Atacama desert portrays illustrations only visible from directly above.
Virtually useless when wandering the dryest desert on earth, testament to the wacky stuff they got up to over there using stones.

Alan Johnston


After the pictures of with the explosives, I saw Alan Johnston being blow to pieces as a monumental chitty to the lawlessness of the west bank.

A would-be coup surely for those seeking to negatively leverage the current precarious situation in the west bank.

Cake & eat it
It’s obvious Johnston had a groundswell of support over there, like the democratically elected Hamas government, he was popular with the people.

Israel and the west are going to have to wait for another excuse to de-stabilize the region further.

BBC Announces launch of iPlayer

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Following the ITV recent announcement to bring broadband download on films, BBC has announced it’s venture into Broadband TV.

Players will be able to download the latest or watch live: files in a format specific to the iPlayer lasting 30 days on the users computer.

The Beeb are making steps to present the whole back catalogue in the future.

Free
The service is to be Free to British license payers.

Wonders of the Modern World

Register your vote for the Seven New Wonders of the world.

Following the destruction of the old ones.
An international consortium has set up a website where homo-sapiens can register their approval of 7 new wonders http://www.new7wonders.com/.

Old Wonders:

Proposed Modern Wonders:

  • Angkor Wat(12th century) Cambodia
  • Chichén Itzá (before 800 A.D.) Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico
  • Christ Redeemer (1931) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • Statues of Easter Island (10th – 16th Century) Easter Island, Chile
  • Machu Picchu (1460-1470), Peru

Amongst others.

Results are due to be announced in Portugal on 07.07.07.