A Series of Tubes in “Gears of War”
While flipping through the list of “achievements” that can be earned in the game Gears of War for Xbox 360, I noticed one that stuck out.
This is, of course, a reference to “Bridge to Nowhere” Senator Ted Stevens’ famous quote in which he called an e-mail “an Internet” and called the Internet “a series of tubes.”
Right now I’m posting this on an 802.11g tube, or as Senator Stevens calls it, a “new-fangled invisible tube.”
