That ole internet alive jive I be talking is waxing and taxing its way to the surface...

Exhibit A:

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~kiniry/projects/Modeling98/submissions/minar.html

The paper begins quite lovely with this:

"The Internet is a vastly distributed complex system. It exhibits emergent phenomena at all scales, from the lowest level of bits moving around wires to the highest level of distributed application. Because of its complexity the network is quite literally out of control: no human being or organization can dictate or even really understand the most important and interesting aspects of the Internet's operation."

I suggest everyone read the essay in its entirety if you are ever going to figure out ANYTHING that I plan to say on this blog...

hrrmph! hrrmph!

:dré