The Seven Wonders

Just a quick link for y'all - I was up extremely early today due to a plumber being in the house so I've already read the paper, watched the news, had breakfast and even done some cleaning, hence being on the computer before Midday. Anyway.

go here to vote for what you think should be the new Seven Wonders of the World! It's pretty cool and really quick. It takes a minute to signup and then another couple of minutes to vote for what you wanna choose out of the 21 possibilities. You have ages to vote ('til 07/07/07!) but do it now so you don't forget.

The reason they're doing this is because only one of the original seven wonders still exists (that being the Pyramids of Giza). I found it odd that that wasn't automatically selected to still be one of the wonders, so do vote for that. It'd be tres embarassing if the Pyramids failed to get enough votes but the Sydney Opera House of the Eiffel Tower did. The 21 possibilities (wittled down from something like 200 entries) are:

1. The Acropolis, Greece
2. Hagia Sophia, Turkey
3. The Kremlin/St. Basil's, Russia
4. The Colosseum, Italy
5. Neu-schwanstein Castle, Germany
6. The Eiffel Tower, France
7. Stonehenge, United Kingdom
8. Alhambra, Spain
9. The Great Wall of China, China
10. Kiyomizu Temple, Japan
11. The Sydney Opera House, Australia
12. Angkor, Cambodia
13. The Taj Mahal, India
14. Timbuktu, Mali
15. Petra, Jordan
16. The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
17. The Statue of Christ Redeemer, Brazil
18. The Easter Island Statues, Chile
19. Machu Picchu, Peru
20. Chichen Itza, Mexico
21. The Statue of Liberty, United States of America

Some really good choices there, but also some strange ones. Not that I know what to replace them with, but whatever. My seven votes went to:

The Pyramids of Giza - Duh. They're still one of the greatest things on this planet.
The Easter Island Statues - These fascinate me. And I think they are a wonder of the world.
Stonehenge - It's rocks on top of rocks, but... but... look at it! I sort of am of the believe that Stonehenge is one of the few actually paranormal things on this Earth.
Machu Picchu - Apart from it being a major feat of construction, it's also sort of tragic what happened
The Taj Mahal - I went with this just slightly over Angkor because this was built for a deceased love one, and you gotta respect that
The Colosseum - Uh, have you seen that thing?
The Great Wall of China - You can see that motha from space, if that ain't something then I don't know what is. This thing still amazes me.

So, yeah, go there and vote. MAKE HISTORY, PEOPLE!