Ganked from a yahoo article. . .
Vote for your new 7 wonders of the world, and do a write-in.
My votes:
Stonehenge
Great Wall
Easter Islands
Colosseum
Acropolis
Pyraminds of Giza
Statue of Liberty
I guess I’m going Old School. Statue of Liberty holds significant 20th century value and reminds me of the Collossus at Rhodes.
Write in candidate: Mall of America, United States
Ooh, I’ve been to three of those. And there’s one more that I really want to see before I die.
My votes (from what little I know of some of them):
Stonehenge
Great Wall of China
Pyramids of Giza
Christ the Redeemer
Machu Picchu
Hagia Sophia
Eiffel Tower
Write-in candidates: Roman Aqueducts, Hoover Dam, Mount Rushmore
I vote for Aveeno model Daniella van Graas.
As a Sydney resident born and bred, I can only hope that the Opera House does not make it onto the list. It looks sort of cool, but really it’s just a moderately interesting modern building. I’m glad it’s there and all, but there are countless other buildings with unusual designs. I’ve never understood the hype. After a lifetime in this town, I still gaze in awe at the Harbour Bridge - all that majestic steel hanging in the sky, and the way the whole structure roars for miles around when a train passes over it - but the Opera House? Meh.
There are a couple of others which also I didn’t even consider. Neuschwanstein? That place was designed to be kitsch, as I remember. It seems very contrived.
Beyond that, it was tough. I voted:
Angkor Wat
Easter Island statues
Great Wall
Machu Picchu
Petra
Pyramids of Giza
Stonehenge
Dang. Now I wish I’d voted for the Hagia Sophia…
Colosseum, Rome
Great Wall, China
Hagia Sophia church, Istanbul, Turkey
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt
Statue of Liberty, New York
Stonehenge, Amesbury, United Kingdom
Taj Mahal, Agra, India
I had both Machu Picchu and Petra on my short list until I decided that a city couldn’t be a wonder; a wonder needs to be a particular item.
My write-in is the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
The Hagia Sophia
Pyramids at Giza
Great Wall - which, as I understand it, is NOT visable from outerspace but impressive nonetheless
Angkor
Petra
Stonehenge
Machu Picchu
Any reason why it has to be a building? Because, imho, the internet, modern food processing, the Keck telescope, that big dam in China, printing, etc are all far more worthy and, well, “wonderful” than a pile of blocks in the Egyptian desert or some faces in a remote island in the Pacific.
You know what I think is a wonder? That I live in Knoxville TN and can name 15 restaurants that offer live lobster and crab. My kid can stack blocks, but can she get me a Pittsburgh-style porterhouse? 
Easter Island
Pyramids at Giza
Great Wall
Angkor
Petra
Stonehenge
Machu Picchu
Which is almost exactly drm’s list (and which I copied and pasted and changed the first item).
Those are the 21 finalists from a much larger list of nominees (I saw the number somewhere, but can’t find it now). I’d like to see what was suggested but didn’t make the cut. It seems like there should be something really jaw-dropping on the list and there isn’t.
I’ve always thought the Moai were jaw dropping. I plan to make it to Easter Island before I die. They would be first on my list.
Petronas Towers, Spring Thomas and Las Vegas. And 4 others.
How about the Chicago River?
After all, it’s the first time I ever heard of people making a river run backwards.
Y’know, not many of the items on that list strike me as particularly new, strictly speaking.
Agreed. A lot of the nominations are on the usual ancient-wonders-of-the-world lists. Were I involved, I’d automatically disqualify anything older than, say, 500 years.
Add:
Venice Beach Boardwalk - Venice, California.
How on Earth does that qualify as a “wonder of the world?”
Hang out there for long enough, and you’ll understand.
I hereby nominate Walt Disney World.
Seriously.
It’s not for new wonders; it’s for a new list including wonders from all time. Least that’s my take.