I’ve always thought of posting memes as the lowest form of blogging. A meme is a viral idea. Once something is classified as a meme it’s already popular, which means you are, by definition, telling people about something they’ve probably already seen. I try to keep that sort of business to a minimum. My writing is already in a rut so deep I’d need mountain climbing gear to escape it. You could probably replace me with an automated script that denounced all new PC Games as trash, all new graphics technology as rubbish, and then at regular intervals decried the lack of PC games. I doubt anyone would even notice. <\/p>\n
The last thing I need to do is augment my predictable subject matter with links to stuff you saw five weeks ago on a site bigger than mine, back before the whole thing became Old News. I know this because every time I post those sorts of links I get people telling as much. (Because, when it comes to viral data, there is nothing people love to share more than the fact that you’re not living up to their expectations.) <\/p>\n
Having said that, this meme fascinates me:<\/p>\n
Some guy wrote words, and parts of words, all over his hands, and then revealed the words through various gestures in time to a techno song. What makes people think of doing this sort of stuff? It doesn’t matter. The results are interesting:<\/p>\n