I Guess the Internet Actually IS a Set of Tubes (unless you run a 64-bit operating system)
Ever since seeing the moronic Senator Ted Stevens describe the internet as a series of tubes last year, I've been laughing about the stupid metaphor. (For more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes).
Recently, however, I noticed this site: http://www.tubesnow.com. Apparently, the Senator was correct. Tubes provide a nice file sharing metaphor, as a convenient place to place files for temporary online storage. Obviously, there are many such services, but this one actually meets a real need in my life. As a courseware author collaborating on writing the content, we need a place to pass files back and forth that doesn't clog our inboxes. I'm willing to try this one, if only to get a chuckle about the intelligence of our elected officials each and every time.
Revised (11/24/2007): The Tubes client doesn't run on Vista x64. So I didn't even get a chance to try it out. Never mind. No excuse for this. I love it when products say they run in Windows Vista, quietly not mentioning that they don't run in Vista x64. Ah, well. Strike this one off.