Embedded in The secret heart of Everything is something called the Brian Enode. Every time that anyone in the world reboots Microsoft Windows (which seems to happen quite a bit) and it makes The Microsoft Sound, a small counter in the Brian Enode is incremented. Whenever the counter reaches a secret preset amount (known only to nate), then the Random Node automagically selects Brian Eno and the Brian Enode counter resets to zero.