<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='http://jackymoklive.spaces.live.com/mmm2008-07-24_12.50/rsspretty.aspx?rssquery=en-US;http%3a%2f%2fjackymoklive.spaces.live.com%2fcategory%2fRandom%2ffeed.rss' version='1.0'?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:msn="http://schemas.microsoft.com/msn/spaces/2005/rss" xmlns:live="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cf="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/rss/core/2005" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Jacky Mok's Blog: Random</title><description /><link>http://jackymoklive.spaces.live.com/?_c11_BlogPart_BlogPart=blogview&amp;_c=BlogPart&amp;partqs=catRandom</link><language>en-US</language><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:25:01 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:25:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Microsoft Spaces v1.1</generator><docs>http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification</docs><ttl>60</ttl><cf:parentRSS>http://jackymoklive.spaces.live.com/blog/feed.rss</cf:parentRSS><live:type>blogcategory</live:type><live:identity><live:id>6494187950561023376</live:id><live:alias>jackymoklive</live:alias></live:identity><cf:listinfo><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="typelabel" label="Type" /><cf:group ns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/live/spaces/2006/rss" element="tag" label="Tag" /><cf:group element="category" label="Category" /><cf:sort element="pubDate" label="Date" data-type="date" default="true" /><cf:sort element="title" label="Title" data-type="string" /><cf:sort ns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" element="comments" label="Comments" data-type="number" /></cf:listinfo><item><title>Series of Tubes in Gears of War</title><link>http://jackymoklive.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!5A1FFD8889CFD590!157.entry</link><description>&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; 
&lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Yeah I know this is an old joke, reading on the thread from below drove me to dig up this series-of-tubes joke once again, and to my surprise, I did find something that's quite interesting...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;h3&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;i&gt;Gears of War&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The phrase pops up as a joke in the Xbox 360 game &lt;i&gt;&lt;a title="Gears of War" href="http://jackymoklive.spaces.live.com/wiki/Gears_of_War"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color="#0066cc"&gt;Gears of War&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; as an unlockable achievement. To unlock the &amp;quot;A Series of Tubes&amp;quot; achievement, one must host and complete 50 ranked matches.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style=""&gt;Seems like this joke is going to hang around for a little longer.  And here is t&lt;font face=Calibri color="#000000" size=3&gt;he original thread that I was referring to:&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;Feed:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span lang=EN-US style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Tahoma','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt; The Globe and Mail - Geekwatch&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Posted on:&lt;/b&gt; February-15-07 4:38 PM&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Author:&lt;/b&gt; Mathew Ingram&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Subject:&lt;/b&gt; Block those Intarweb tubes!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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&lt;p style=""&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:'Calibri','sans-serif'"&gt;&lt;font size=3&gt;&lt;font color="#000000"&gt;U.S. Senator Ted Stevens has already achieved a certain kind of blogosphere and Internet infamy for his comments about teh Internets being &amp;quot;a series of tubes&amp;quot; (click here to watch a dance-video remix of his address to the Senate). Now, he seems to want to compound that infamy by[amp]nbsp;passing legislation - Follow link to read full post &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
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