What is a Meme Attempt 2

WTF Is A Meme

First off a meme is a communication tool used to link and distribute information to the world, much like genes distribute links and distributes information to the body. As it is patterned on on the word gene, I feel the only right pronunciation has to be with the long EE sound making it rhyme with gene. This is only part of what a meme is though.

A meme for blogs is a sophisticated SEO tool (search engine optimization tool), despite what some might think. First a meme if done right provides a link to back to the original host and to those that disseminate it, thereby creating a beneficial link structure for all involved. The second thing a meme does is allows readers to get to know the blogger they are reading in a more genial atmosphere. This friendly atmosphere can turn casual readers into active participation. The last thing a meme is meant to be is capital F-U-N, FUN!

Whether you use the memes on Meme Connection as an SEO tool or just as a way to have fun, it doesn’t matter to us so long as you remember to use the HTML code provided and link back to us. Just kidding have fun but remember that a meme that isn’t well linked doesn’t have a lot of value.

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WTF Is A Meme

First off a meme is a communication tool used to link and distribute information to the world, much like genes distribute links and distributes information to the body. As it is patterned on on the word gene, I feel the only right pronunciation has to be with the long EE sound making it rhyme with gene. This is only part of what a meme is though.

A meme for blogs is a sophisticated SEO tool (search engine optimization tool), despite what some might think. First a meme if done right provides a link to back to the original host and to those that disseminate it, thereby creating a beneficial link structure for all involved. The second thing a meme does is allows readers to get to know the blogger they are reading in a more genial atmosphere. This friendly atmosphere can turn casual readers into active participation. The last thing a meme is meant to be is capital F-U-N, FUN!

Whether you use the memes on Meme Connection as an SEO tool or just as a way to have fun, it doesn’t matter to us so long as you remember to use the HTML code provided and link back to us. Just kidding have fun but remember that a meme that isn’t well linked doesn’t have a lot of value.

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The Really Important News

Last night US Congressman Dennis Kucinich from Ohio read out 35 articles of impeachment against President George W Bush. For more than three hours he detailed everything from Election Fraud to War Crimes. This morning I checked the headlines of most news organization websites and my local Dayotn, Ohio newspapers looking for some response to this act. What did I find? Not a Damned Thing! Was a call for impeachment less news worthy than Jessica Alba’s new baby or Ken Griffey Jr hitting number 600? I like the thought of anything that comes from between Jessica Alba’s legs. However, I certainly think any agency that calls itself a purveyor of news should give a call for impeachment equal headlines.

Quit Bitching About China Birth Policy

It is time for everyone to quit bitching about China’s one birth policy. While the enforcement as I understand it can be downright draconic and should be questioned, the policy itself is sound no matter which side you look at it from. Right or left you should be questioning why the rest of the world won’t adopt a similar standard.

The policy was instituted to do one thing for multiple reasons, stop population growth. Almost everyone on the right says don’t have kids you can’t support. This policy says that on a national level. China knew when it put the policy in place, they couldn’t support the expanding population. If it hadn’t been for instituting this nearly thirty years ago, the world’s population would most likely be between ten and fifteen billion, instead of nearly seven.

Reproductive Rights vs Responsibilities

In the modern age, the latest roaring battle cry from women is “Reproductive Rights”. I find myself questioning the whole notion, on a legal level and an ethical level. Here is your opportunity to speak out.

My first instinct is that yes women have reproductive rights. The more I think about it on a legal level I start to have my doubts about whether they should. Time and time again, the US population has said select groups don’t deserve special rights. To an extent I don’t disagree with that notion. In all practicality I realize the government often times has to step in and protect certain groups from mob mentality, but that is a different argument altogether. If women are afforded special reproductive rights, does this put them in a category of select individuals getting rights not available to the general public?

Old School Deaths

We have finally come to a point in time when the old finally have to die. No, I am not talking about people this time. Of course it is mostly old people that are hanging on to the ideas and products that need to die. This is my personal list of Old School Deaths
5) Print Newspapers and Magazines. The average newspaper reader in America is 55 and keeps going up every year, making this a dying industry. We should help it along to save on the environmental costs associated with it.

On The Edge of a Genetic Razor

We currently are on the edge of a genetic razor. As long as we do nothing and stand perfectly still we come to no harm. Shift our weight to one side or the other without creating a counter balance and we are cut in twain. While standing still doing nothing might seem safe, it does nothing for our genetic progress as a species.

A news report out of The Scotsman, suggests under British law, and probably that of a number of other countries, that it is perfectly legal to artificially inseminate an animal with human sperm. The belief by scientists is a hybrid could be created as an organ donor, by fertilizing a female chimp with human sperm. The fact that this has been made public suggests they have had successful petri dish trials. The notion is fairly noble, but in reality it scares the shit out of me.

I don’t believe in an almighty god or gods, so my objection is not on religious grounds. What scare me is moral and ethical issues. If we create a human hybrid, it becomes a separate species, which may or may not be capable of reproduction. Not only might it be a viable new species, what happens if it is a sentient species? Do we have the right to enslave a sentient species as organ donors letting them die if it is an organ we need?

Furthermore if it is a sentient species, even a less intelligent one, what rights does it have? It is half-human, will it be afforded the basic human rights we say all humans are endowed by their creator with? If killing them isn’t an option because of intelligence and they are self propagating how will they integrate into our society? Will they be our equals or will they be our slaves?

This all might sound a bit Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, but it is also a very real possibility. We need to think before we act of the consequences far down the road. Even if we don’t just start harvesting organs or turning them into our slaves, another sentient species on this over populated planet can’t be a good thing.

Population Crisis – Not Food Crisis

It is said that we are in the middle of a world food crisis. Bullshit, we are in the middle of a population crisis. For centuries we have bred to the point of instability and we are now finally feeling the crunch of scarce resources. The caring part of my humanity feels for people who will starve, but part of me wants to jump up and down point fingers and say, “I told you so!”

There are also those who want to blame the food shortage on the growth of the US biofuel industry, but to that I can only scratch my head and ask who put them up to saying it. The fact is right now most land used for biofuel farming would sit idle if it wasn’t used for those crops. For those who complain that while we can’t do anything about this years biofuel crops, but we can in the future crops, you need to stop and think about the consequences of delaying biofuel production.

Announcement

Since some of you have been wondering where I have been for the last couple of days, let me start with saying I was vacationing at home and preparing both for the new baby and getting the blog my wife and I will be co-writing online.  You can see it at http://wtfarewegoingtodonow.com/  there is both a blog and sometime a little later today a message board.  thanks for stopping by.

Evolution in Cyberspace

In honor of Pope Benny’s 81st birthday and nearly Darwin’s 200th, I give you “Evolution in Cyberspace” New Scientist hooked up on the theme of Charles Darwin’s birthday when it published Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions.  it is a fascinating read and Digg worthy which is where I found the article in the first place.

John Hawks, a noted anthropologist, put out a paper last December detailing the hows and why of our recent evolutionary changes and why it is going faster than ever.  His notion is within the last 40,000 that humans have started to settle down in permanent communities we have seen a faster rate of genetic mutations and put out some good evidence for this.  It takes me back to some of my own posts on our increasing population that I have done.

Evolution for those that don’t know is not about smartest, fastest, or the toughest it is about adaptability and making babies.  As population we have become very good at both things.  In my mind, we have gotten too good at it. We produce without regard to the natural resources of this planet either now or in the future. Furthermore we are doing everything in our power to keep people alive to pass on traits that would have killed them in times past.

No matter what creationists have to say about evolution most of them can and do acknowledge the relevant portions of animal husbandry. I know many cattle, horse, and dog breeders who are also creationists. The one thing they will all tell you is it is important of weeding out bad traits in your breeding stock. Why is this so hard to push for in humans who are just one more animal on this planet?

In truth we have done more in the last hundred years to improve the breeding of horses, dogs, cattle, and even rabbits than we have done to improve people. Where marriages were once about economic well being and children were little more than chattel, we have gone soft. While I am all for marriages made from love and having kids because we want them rather than need them, we have gone too far.

We are rapidly over populating the planet, beyond its means to support us and doing nothing to improve ourselves. More and more variations are evolving in us the faster we breed, but the fact is we aren’t doing much to spread them around for the benefit of all. Why? The answer is pretty simple, racism and religion.

These benefits often creep up in isolated population often because of close interbreeding over many generations. Yes there are bad traits that creep up too, but those aren’t ones we need to be looking at since most of those traits die out in those populations for lack of good medical care.

The other factor here is race. As minorities struggle in mixed communities to maintain a racial identity, especially among the new immigrated they don’t mix, marry or even have flings with outsiders. Perhaps if we did a little more to welcome them and their differences into out our lives all of humanity would benefit from it…

History 101, or maybe 1936

When did we quit teaching history in school? I find it all well and good that schools invest in teaching kids new technologies, but if this is what we get by skimping elsewhere, I may have to make some revisions to my thoughts on how education dollars are spent.

On the other hand I think the point is well made, we did let Nazi Germany and communist USSR, because the Olympics are supposed to be about people, not politics.