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New Seven Wonders of the World
While not tech related, there have been a modern day Seven Wonders of the World selected.

The winners of a competition to name the modern wonders of the world have been announced in Lisbon. One of them is the ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico.

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Publish Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:07:00 CDT
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is that site safe? every time i go there i get 3 files trying to download to my computer. Thank god i have firefoxs stoping it tho. Its SWF filesi belive

sounds like a settings fuckup, [H] is safe.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6281540.stm is all it links to anyway

northwesten wrote:is that site safe?

Yes.

Seven big loads of old rubbish, more like. All but two of them are falling apart, and the Pyramids are still better than most of them.

Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things? Stuff like the Palm resort in Dubai, the RO-BO-Bank of Asia in Bangkok, that big Tesco on the M6, Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion and probably some other hotels and financial buildings and airports and stuff.

[H] is syndicating BBC News, and we are syndicating [H].

FatherJack wrote:Seven big loads of old rubbish, more like. All but two of them are falling apart, and the Pyramids are still better than most of them.

Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things? Stuff like the Palm resort in Dubai, the RO-BO-Bank of Asia in Bangkok, that big Tesco on the M6, Mickey Mouse's Castle of Illusion and probably some other hotels and financial buildings and airports and stuff.

yer Pyramids is the best! and we still wounder who build them too. Engineers say its too perfect!

northwesten wrote:and we still wounder who build them too.

I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

eion wrote:I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

Yeah, I'd heard they may have been involved somewhere.

eion wrote: I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

LIES! just ask Macgyver

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Yeah, I'd heard they may have been involved somewhere.

But they're forin! It must have been the English *plants a BNP flag in his skull*

Don't sell England short... I mean, think of the Tricorn Centre.

eion wrote: I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

Pfft, that's what ROBO wants you to believe!

mrbobbins wrote:LIES! just ask Macgyver

Indeed.

eion wrote:I think most people are pretty much in agreement that ancient Egyptians were behind the whole thing.

"That's what I wanted you to think"

"This is how I eat my creme egg."

FatherJack wrote:This is how I eat my creme egg."

eion wrote:Don't sell England short... I mean, think of the Tricorn Centre.

Got to love the fact that this paticular architectural movement became known as brutalist! Great lumps of concrete, some of which are now protected as perfect examples of their type. For instance victory college at sandhurst, truly eye watering in its beauty.

HereComesPete wrote: Got to love the fact that this particular architectural movement became known as brutalist!

Especially seeing how the origin of the term - surprisingly - has nothing to do with looking brutal and everything to do with the French termforunfinished concrete.

There were some truly appalling buildings of this type on my undergrad campus... they fit really nicely with the classical Victorian architecture and the two gleaming new Norman Foster buildings...

FatherJack wrote:Actually, they're all rather impressive, but shouldn't a "modern seven wonders" be modern things?

Depends on what you mean by "seven modern wonders". Could be taken to mean seven wonders that are modern, or it could mean seven wonders that are in the modern world. Just because something is in the modern world doesnt mean it has to be new.

Besides, you would then have an even dafter argument about what "modern" means. Ok, something built 3 years ago can be thought of as a modern construction, but what about 20 years ago? or, come to that, 200 years ago: its modern compared to the pyramids.

There were some truly appalling buildings of this type on my undergrad campus... they fit really nicely with the classical Victorian architecture and the two gleaming new Norman Foster buildings...

Think yourself lucky, most of the Leicester Uni buildings were big blocks of concrete. The Attenborough Tower was particularly special, as it also had a Patternoster lift (Worst. Idea. Evar.) and "self cleaning windows" that dont. Of course, because the windows are supposed to clean themselves, there also isnt any way for a regular window cleaner to get to them, so most of them are filthy.

HereComesPete wrote:Got to love the fact that this paticular architectural movement became known as brutalist! Great lumps of concrete, some of which are now protected as perfect examples of their type. For instance victory college at sandhurst, truly eye watering in its beauty.

also the tesco gateshead* carpark (the one of Get Carter)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... arpark.jpg

my dad went on a tv program called 'DEMOLITION' to ask tesco to demolish it .....random...i know


*gateshead being over the river from Newcastle