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sometimes the most simple things are the hardest to see clearly:

“Email will become the killerer app. It continued to work when all else failed. Communication – not consumer storefronts – is the core value provided by the net and email is the star. The best things on the net make things easier and faster. Seems simple, but many of the failed business propositions of the
past year seemed to go in the opposite direction.”


[via kottke]

i’ve been thinking of starting my own webcast and the Streaming MP3 Server Guide looks like it’ll come in handy:

“The purpose of this document is to describe the process of using Linux based tools to setup a server used for streaming MP3 data. With a streaming MP3 server, a wad of MP3’s, and a microphone a user can create their own internet radio show complete with snappy banter.”

although it’s a drag that my new dsl line is asymetric and i won’t likely be able to host it on my box at home because the upload speeds are so pokey. hi. ho.

NET STRUCK BY WAVE OF TANGENTIALISM CLOUDS DEPRESS ME:

“Internet sites from Ashford.com to ZDNet today
reported being hit by a mysterious wave of tangentialism, with the content on many sites
rendered almost entirely useless as it trails off in obscure or loosely related cousin George
III was the crazy king.

“What concerns us most is that the problem
seems to be getting worse, and that each
reference is becoming more loosely related to the
previous to this I was in sales,” said eBay
spokesperson Gil Blanc, who added that Buelah
would be a good name for a maid.”

i really wish i could see the grant application for theoretical analysis of a dripping faucet:

“While previous studies of continuous emission of drops from a faucet have shown the richness of the system’s nonlinear response, a theory of dripping has heretofore been lacking. Long-time behavior of dripping is simulated computationally by tracking the formation of up to several hundred drops in a sequence, rather than the usual single drop, at a given flow rate Q and verified by experiments. As Q increases, the system evolves from a period-1 system through a number of period doubling (halving) bifurcations as dripping ultimately gives way to jetting. That hysteresis can occur is also demonstrated. ”

sounds fascinating – at least as much fun as watching paint dry. i didn’t know what hysteresis meant either.