  Festival of Meme's These have been going around for a while. Rather then post my contributions one at a time, I'll shove them all here like a closet that needs cleaning. I'll see what I can do about adding a couple more soon. Fun. Silly, silly fun. Page 23, 5th sentence meme: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 23. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4.
Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. "The left fielder had a good arm, and he got the ball right in to the second baseman, but when the dust settled Jennifer T. was safe with another double. " - Summerland, by Michael Chabon Via, urlLink Shaternian among others. iPod meme: Turn your MP3 player on random and list the first 15 tracks it plays (regardless of how embarrassing they may be): 1. Country Yard - The Vines 2. The Girl from North Country - Johnny Cash 3. Meu Destino - Thievery Corporation 4. A Long Time Coming - Sloan 5. George J. Tennet (3.24.04) - 9/11 Commission Hearings 6. Hollywood Freaks - Beck 7.
Street Fighting Man - Rolling Stones 8. Elegy for Elsaber - The Wearkerthans 9. Alpha Beta Gaga - Air 10. 12:51 - The Strokes 11. The Taming of Carolyn - The Lowest of the Low 12. A Mighty Wind - A Mighty Wind OST 13. Seymour Stein - Belle and Sebastian 14. Non-Sectarian Blues - Dave Brubeck 15. A Side Wins - Sloan Via urlLink Robotjohnny , among others.
The good people at meme.org see memes as different then the examples above. Here's a bit of urlLink a definition . Acording to urlLink meme.org , memes are more like "mind viruses": ideas or practices that spread from one person to another in a culture or society. I'm trying to think of examples and let's say something cute like "eating your Snicker's bar with a knife and fork" might fall into the category of a meme.
The belief that Clinton had a number of people urlLink secretly murdered during his administration is an idea that began with "conspiracy nuts" and was then repeated over and over in, somewhat slanted, media circles. I think that could be considered a meme as well; as it spreads it looses it's shell of creation and gains credibility by virtue of the number of people who mention or talk about it. It's an idea that creeps into consciousness, and eventually the line between the factual components of the meme, and the innocent or sinister conclusion draw from those facts, is blurred. It's a very interesting concept. 
