2008-11-22
Save the Levels
"The Welsh Assembly Government is proposing to build a new 24km toll motorway through the spectacular wildlife habitat of the Gwent Levels in SE Wales."http://www.savethelevels.org.uk/
The Monty Python Channel on YouTube
"For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands.We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you in ways too horrible to tell. But being the extraordinarily nice chaps we are, we've figured a better way to get our own back: We've launched our own Monty Python channel on YouTube.
No more of those crap quality videos you've been posting. We're giving you the real thing - HQ videos delivered straight from our vault.
What's more, we're taking our most viewed clips and uploading brand new HQ versions. And what's even more, we're letting you see absolutely everything for free. So there!"
http://uk.youtube.com/montypython
Smart History
"smARThistory.org is a free multi-media web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional and static art history textbook"http://smarthistory.org/
Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles
"Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. It puts every other bottle building we have shown to shame."http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/temple-built-from-beer-bottles.php
My Secret Wales - Henllan
"In 1944, the Italian prisoners of War interned in Henllan, Ceredigion, turned one of their makeshift huts into an ornate Catholic Church, complete with hand painted frescoes and candlesticks fashioned from corn beef tins. Jo Conti, a Welsh-Italian designer from Lampeter, celebrated this remarkable feat of wartime ingenuity."http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/llandysul/pages/henllan.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7023521.stm
School of regional planning Kevin Morgan slams Bute Park Scheme
"One of Wales’ leading academics has passionately denounced a scheme to build a new road access for lorries into Bute Park in Cardiff.Kevin Morgan, a professor in the school of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University, believes the scheme amounts to a desecration of one of the city’s greatest assets."
http://inconsiderateparking.blogspot.com/2008/11/school-of-regional-planning-kevin.html
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