Watching TV – 9 Years in an Average Lifetime
| July 26, 2011
Month: July 2011
Is Internet access a human right?
| July 26, 2011
We’re halfway done with 2011, a year marked by remarkable, revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East – uprisings facilitated and documented on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media.
When the governments in Egypt and Syria tried to control the flow of information from citizens by blocking Internet access and other forms of communication, the worldwide perception of these acts was that they were sinister and cruel. People were silenced. It was as if their vocal chords were cut; it was as if we, outside the Middle East, were blinded.
Was the impact so dramatic because today Internet access has reached the status of a basic need – like clean water or electricity?
China opens world’s longest sea bridge
| July 26, 2011
The marathon-length Qingdao Haiwan Bridge would easily span the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana.
The vast structure links the centre of the booming port city of Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong Province with the suburb of Huangdao, spanning the wide blue waters of Jiaozhou Bay.
The bridge is expected to carry over 30,000 cars a day and will cut the commute between the city of Qingdao and the sprawling suburb of Huangdao by between 20 and 30 minutes.
The Hórreo – Singular Symbol of Spain
| July 26, 2011
If you travel through north eastern Spain the chances are that you will see something like above structure, pictured in Ourense in Galicia. Known as hórreo and often centuries old, these structures served a vital purpose for the local communities. Can you guess what they were for?
Let me show you the meaning of haste.
| July 25, 2011
Photographed seconds before the sonic boom…
Sean Connery’s keyboard
| July 25, 2011
They forgot Eshcape.
