Bringing the "series of tubes" metaphor to

meisteg writes: Tubes is an application that allows users to create tubes used for sharing files over the Internet. From the article: "[Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens] endured ridicule last year for his assertion that the Internet is "a series of tubes." But one Web startup hopes to bring that metaphor to life with a new service that makes it easy for people to share videos, songs, pictures and other big files."