http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fleet Posts tagged with 'fleet' at MetaFilter. Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:07:18 -0800 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:07:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/121204/Rivers%2DLost%2Dand%2DFound London's <a href="http://londonist.com/2010/12/hand-drawn-maps-the-river-fleet.php">River Fleet</a> may be the <a href="http://londonist.com/2010/08/a_trip_down_the_fleet_river.php">best</a>-<a href="http://mappinglondon.co.uk/2011/08/21/mapping-londons-underground-rivers/">known</a> <a href="http://undercitylondonstories.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/london-underground-river-fleet.html">buried</a> <a href="http://diamondgeezer.blogspot.co.uk/2010/12/lost-rivers-epilogue.html">river</a>, but there are examples around the world, including the <a href="http://parisisinvisible.blogspot.co.uk/2009/07/bievre.html">Bievre</a> in Paris, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wien_(river)">Wein</a> in Vienna (<a href="http://www.silentuk.com/?p=1202">as featured in The Third Man</a>), the <a href="http://englishrussia.com/2010/09/29/travelling-underground/#more-18548">Neglinnaya</a> in Moscow, the <a href="http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/waterexhibition/WaterSupplySewerage/TheTankStream.html">Tank Stream</a> in Sydney, the <a href="http://narrative.ly/2012/10/forgotten-streams/">Minetta Brook</a> in New York and the <a href="http://www.kcet.org/updaily/socal_focus/history/la-as-subject/uncovering-las-lost-streams.html">lost streams</a> of Los Angeles. Some buried rivers are now being <a href="http://www.timeoutbeijing.com/venue/Around_Town-Parks__Gardens/9330/Changpu-River-Park.html">restored</a> to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheonggye_Stream">urban landscape</a>. Why bury a river? Well, Ben Jonson's <a href="http://www.sewerhistory.org/misc/jonson2.htm">On the Famous Voyage</a> gives an idea of what the Fleet was like in the 17th Century. [The <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/102224/Seoul-tears-down-an-urban-freeway-and-the-city-can-breathe-again">Cheonggye Stream previously</a>. LA and New York articles via <a href="http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/">bldgblog</a>] tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.121204 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 03:07:18 -0800 fleet london rivers underground gnimmel http://www.metafilter.com/83462/Harmonizing%2DCovers YouTube user <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisDodgen">ChrisDodgen</a> posts videos of covers he's done. What separates him from the rest is how he mixes multiple videos of himself to harmonize on covers (Fleet Foxes' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Ub4Aat9kY">White Winter Hymnal</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PAd6hQQdLE">Ragged Wood</a>, and The Get Up Kids' <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFHXEL9VmmQ">Holiday</a>). tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.83462 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:00:58 -0800 cover fleet fleetfoxes foxes get kids music up youtube spiderskull http://www.metafilter.com/82566/shipping%2Dnerds%2Drejoice "<a href="http://researchreloaded.com/content/live-interactive-ship-location-map">Now this is cool</a>. Hellenic Shipping has a <a href="http://download.hellenicshippingnews.com/img/all_google_map.html">Google Maps mashup</a> showing interactive, live data on the global shipping fleet." <small>[<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-the-world-trade-live-2009-6">via</a>]</small> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.82566 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:41:17 -0800 fleet googlemaps maps marinetrafficcom mashups shipping lalex http://www.metafilter.com/65511/Gentlemen%2DRanters <a href="http://www.gentlemenranters.com/">Gentlemen Ranters,</a> a "<a href="http://www.gentlemenranters.com/3.html#Eric">brilliant</a> <a href="http://www.gentlemenranters.com/29.html#Editorial">compendium</a> of <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4091172.stm">reminiscences</a> of the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/2007/jul/03/photography.artnews?picture=330127737">great days </a>of <a href="http://www.londonlogue.com/places-to-go/fleet-street-part-1.html">Fleet</a> <a href="http://www.londonlogue.com/places-to-go/fleet-street-part-2.html">Street</a>". <a href="http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/08/why_veteran_hacks_will_always.html">Via</a> (check the comments for a more depressing viewpoint). tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.65511 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:27:37 -0800 Alcoholics Expenses Fleet Journalism Newspapers Street UK criticalbill