Is that a gravy boat in your pocket?

Here's something interesting I stumbled upon over at Metafilter over the weekend:
The G-Cans Project ...

...is a massive project, begun 12 years ago, to build infrastructure for preventing overflow of the major rivers and waterways spidering the city (A serious problem for Tokyo during rainy-season and typhoon season). The underground waterway is the largest in the world and sports five 32m diameter, 65m deep concrete containment silos which are connected by 64 kilometers of tunnel sitting 50 meters beneath the surface. The whole system is powered by 14000 horsepower turbines which can pump 200 tons of water a second into the large outlying edogawa river.

Maybe I've been playing too much MYST over the years, but don't the photo's look like another age? Very cool.

Here's the photographers site.

In other strange news, here is a random sampling of recent search strings...

i accidentally swallowed a bone - I don't think searching the web should be your first step. Can you still breathe? Don't worry then, you'll be fine.
hark i hear a gravy boat - Maybe it's time to lay off the L-Tryptophan pal.
mature kaviar - Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
cat eats tinsel - Welcome to the frickin' club. Just wait til it comes out the other end... Then the fun really starts! Festive!
dogstalker - Hey lady! I don't have the dog anymore. Go away!
apostles joke - Peter and Paul walk into a bar. You'd think one of them would have seen it.

Thank you, I'm here all week...