16 December 2005 - mysterious codes

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2005 : 16 December 2005

Net Work

The Internet loads mysterious codes
Its wonders to perform;
It plants the kernel with its stacks,
And seeds ideas in dorms.

Blind believers, ants with pants,
We build more than we planned;
The network is its own compiler,
That we can’t understand.

clue:

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.

... several more stanzas ...

Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
— William Cowper

The “stacks” of line three are, of course, protocol stacks.