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[minervasolo]

Van Gogh You scored 55 touch, 59 emote, 14 chaos factor, and 31 subject!

You experience sensually; your emotions run deep. There is an undeniable attraction to you to which few are immune.

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 81% on touch You scored higher than 84% on emote You scored higher than 5% on chaos factor You scored higher than 31% on object

Link: The What Painting Style Are You? Test written by carolinelaughs on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

Why are they called memes? Does anyone know?

Also: a Dancing Penguins Production. Watch the clips, they're brilliant. It's a film about dancing and singing penguins.

(also, Dancing Penguin Productions sounds like a cool name for Kendrick's new business)

Comments

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Something to do with memetic propogation. Ask Warren Ellis. ;)

[rhube.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh. I have been wondering. I wonder what wikipedia says.

[apiphile.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder how I lived before Wikipedia.

[rhube.livejournal.com]

"The Journal of Memetics has suggested that the term 'meme' itself may have derived from the work of the little-known German biologist Richard Semon"

a 'meme' is an idea transfered from one mind to another. It also seems to be a term in biology, particularly to do with evolution - the copying of genes and so forth - hence the suggested origin. Memes have as an important characteristic propogation and imitation (apparently) which suggests how they became adapted for this new usaged applied to tests, questionaires etc. which people copy each other by doing, even though this appears to be moving quite some ways from the idea of transferring or ideas. I only scanned the wiki article, but that seems to be teh gist. Interestingly, I didn't see any reference to teh phenomenon as I first and mainly have understood it -i.e. its usage on lj and internet forums en general - except maybe at the bottom where there is a link (which I didn't persue) to 'bandwaggon jumping'.