Suggested reading: The Meme Machine, by Susan Blackmore

An excellent, fascinating and thought-provoking book that starts with the most basic point, defining a meme: pointing out that it is a replicator, just as a gene is. It then works on from there, exploring all the logical, inevitable consequences of that, doing a good job of melding biology, ( Read more... )

...but I was having a goofy evening watching cordelianne's vid recs* and being immersed in Buffy love, and when the meme popped up from entrenous88 I couldn't resist. Now I must pay ( Read more... )

Via witling:

1: open your mp3 player.

2: put all of your music on random.

3: write down the first 10 songs it plays, no matter how embarrassing.

4: write down which Whedonverse characters and/or pairings the song makes you think of. (I believe the meme started as "whatever" it made you think of, but I like witling's take on it better.)

( I think iTunes cheated a bit - or maybe it just knew Latin was appropriate. )

I haven't exactly been tagged, but I'm stealing them from my flist.

From spikedluv:
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