Where things lead...

One minute, you're innocently following around some information about bratwurst and the next thing you know, you slam up against the reality of making sausage.

Len Poli has done a pretty good job of documenting his own processes. He also has a Wisconsin style Johnsonville clone recipe but this one seems to be his favorite (nutmeg is an interesting idea).

I love the web network that we've created for precisely this reason. Every link is an information lottery. You can stumble into a gold mine just as easily as you can stumble into a mine shaft. It's one heck of a lot of fun just to watch this medium evolve.

We've got some serious bumps ahead, but the new net doesn't seem likely to go away at this point. If anything, the number of people putting up their own loudspeakers on some virtual corner is accelerating with tools which make it easier (weblogs for individuals, wikis for single minded groups, forums and lists for more spirited groups and so forth all the way out to enterprise CMS solutions -- as bad as they are).