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	Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
		Memes are contagious ideas, all competing for a share of our mind in a kind of Darwinian selection.
		As memes evolve, they become better and better at distracting and diverting us from whatever we'd really like to be doing with our lives.
		Memes are the basic building blocks of our minds and culture, in the same way that genes are the basic building blocks of biological life.
	www.memecentral.com (790 words)

	Frequently asked question
		The meme for vanishing point perspective in two-dimensional art, for example, which first appeared in the sixteenth century, can be encoded and transmitted in German, English or Chinese; it can be described in words, or in algebraic equations, or in line drawings.
		Heith Michael Rezabek: My favorite example of a crucial meme would be "fire" or more importantly, "how to make a fire." This is a behavioral meme, mind you, one which didn't necessarily need a word attached to it to spring up and spread, merely a demonstration for another to follow.
		Note that the fitness of the meme is not necessarily related to the fitness that it confers upon the human being who holds it.
	maxwell.lucifer.com /virus/alt.memetics/what.is.html (0 words)

	Meme - dKosopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memes are generally described in their most generic form, for example "Saddam bin Laden" is a description for the meme that Saddam was related to the 9/11 attacks in some way.
		A meme however discourages examination of the underlying assumption, and any rational debate tends to acknowledge premises of the meme's issue statement, which is not neutral at all.
		One example of a meme at work is the meme "Saddam is a liar", which was backed up by factoids of his being uncooperative in the extreme to weapons inspections.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Meme (1478 words)

	meme - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Memes can be considered the unit of cultural evolution.
		The term is used especially in the phrase "meme complex" denoting a group of mutually supporting memes that form an organised belief system, such as a religion.
		This lexicon is an (epidemiological) vector of the `hacker subculture' meme complex; each entry might be considered a meme.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/meme (425 words)

	The Lifecycle of Memes
		Some memes are viewed as important, and hence spread to others after a conscious and sometimes rational evaluation; some memes exploit aspects of cognition or emotion to bias their hosts to spread them.
		Memes are able to shift between media, sometimes with a mutating effect on the meme (such as the major differences between the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo and the same story told by Disney).
		Memes that can be encoded in durable vectors such as books, great art or major myths can spread almost unchanged for millennia, while memes encoded in ephemeral vectors such as the spoken word have to spread from host to host quickly and are also more likely to mutate into new variants.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Cultural/Memetics/memecycle.html (8104 words)

	Current Protocols in Bioinformatics: MEME
		MEME looks for the most "significant" motifs in the input sequences, where "significant" is a function of the length of the pattern, number of times it occurs and degree of similarity among the occurrences.
		MEME reports an E-value for each motif it finds, which is an estimate of the number of (equally or more interesting) motifs one would expect to find by chance if the letters in the input sequences were shuffled.
		MEME defines the E-value of a motif as the number of motifs (with the same width and number of occurrences) that would have equal or higher log likelihood ratio if the training set sequences had been generated randomly according to (the 0-order portion of the) a background model.
	www.sdsc.edu /~tbailey/MEME-protocol-draft2/protocols.html (6639 words)

	``Memes, The New Replicators''
		memes should be regarded as living structures, not just metaphorically but technically.(3) When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain, turning it into a vehicle for the meme's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell.
		The meme of Darwin's theory is therefore that essential basis of the idea which is held in common by all brains that understand the theory.
		The meme for celibacy is transmitted by priests to young boys who have not yet decided what they want to do with their lives.
	www.rubinghscience.org /memetics/dawkinsmemes.html (8617 words)

	KENDİ KENDİNE MEME MUAYENESİ-jinekoloji.net
		Meme uçlarınız önceden beri içe dönükse bu yapısal bir durumdur, önemli olan böyle bir değişikliğin yeni ortaya çıkmış olup olmamasıdır.
		Meme dokusunun tümüyle taranması, memenin koltukaltından göğüs kemiğine, köprücük kemiğinden memenin alt sınırına kadar tüm alanların dikkatlice hissedilerek taranması demektir.
		Meme muayenesini yukarıda anlatıldığı şekilde yaptığınızda normal meme dokusu arasındaki muhtemel normaldışı kitleleri saptama şansınız yüksektir.
	jinekoloji.net /kkmm.htm (1118 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Meme
		Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the memory of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme.
		A meme is a (cognitive) information-structure able to replicate using human hosts and to influence their behavior to promote replication.
		If a host is infected and later forgets the meme and/or stops acting out the new behavior before the host has spread the meme on, the host has not done the meme any more good than if the host had not been infected in the first place.
	fusionanomaly.net /meme.html (2492 words)

	The Straight Dope: What is a meme?
		One defining characteristic of a meme is that it reproduces itself with a fair degree of fidelity.
		Meme theory proponents argue that, just as we're the pawns by which our genes compete for dominance, so are we the creatures of our memes.
		Memes are much the same, and their substrates can be as varied as a book or someone's memory.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/040213.html (801 words)

	Memetics
		Examples of memes in the animal world are most bird songs, and certain techniques for hunting or using tools that are passed from parents or the social group to the youngsters (Bonner, 1980).
		Memes undergo processes of variation (mutation, recombination) of their internal structure.
		Perhaps the most powerful medium for meme transmission is the computer network, and this implies some specific characteristics for memes on the net.
	pespmc1.vub.ac.be /MEMES.html (1118 words)

	MEME - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MEME represents motifs as position-dependent letter-probability matrices which describe the probability of each possible letter at each position in the pattern.
		MEME takes as input a group of DNA or protein sequences (the training set) and outputs as many motifs as requested.
		MEME uses statistical modeling techniques to automatically choose the best width, number of occurrences, and description for each motif.
	bioweb.pasteur.fr /seqanal/motif/meme/meme-intro.html (125 words)

	What are Memes? - The primary infection.
		For example, if the meme were to say (in an extreme case), "Shoot all people with green eyes", then the host would have to shoot all people with green eyes because it is carrying that meme, but also, the host would strive to make other people do the same thing.
		Of course, that meme is unlikely to exist in any great quantity, and as we shall see, it probably doesn't even exist in that form.
		The power of the use of Memes is that it allows for Memes to be passed between hosts.
	members.tripod.com /~Drahcir/memes/memes_about.html (1724 words)

	What is a Meme? What are Memes?
		A cultural unit (an idea or value or pattern of behavior) that is passed from one generation to another by nongenetic means (as by imitation); "memes are the cultural counterpart of genes".
		Though Dawkins defined the meme as "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation," memeticists vary in their definitions of meme.
		The lack of a consistent, rigorous definition of what precisely a meme is remains one of the principal criticisms leveled at memetics, the study of memes.
	thedailymeme.com /what-is-a-meme (701 words)

	The Memes List - I Am Pariah
		meme n (mëm): A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
		In Blogspeak, a meme is an idea that is shared and passed from blog to blog, like a question posted in one blog and answered in many other blogs.
		As you can see, there is a meme for every day of the week, a meme for every week, and a meme for every month.
	www.iampariah.com /memeslist (245 words)

	MEME AND MY WORLD : ANIME, FILM, MERCHANDISE - Japanese
		MeMe and My World is the anime adventure of MeMe Yoshida, a 15 year-old girl who moves to America after having lived in Japan all her life.
		MeMe and the entire cast form a property with stunning artwork and design, perfect for attractive merchandise, creating a colorful MeMe community, and enjoying all kinds of fun, entertaining MeMe-related games and events.
		Between MeMe’s family, friends, Emotionals and all of their adventures together, MeMe and My World truly represents one of anime’s most compelling and enjoyable stories yet, particularly for girls of all ages.
	www.memeandmyworld.com /MeMeJapanese (218 words)

	Wired 2.10: Meme, Counter-meme
		The Nazi-comparison meme, I'd decided, had gotten out of hand - in countless Usenet newsgroups, in many conferences on the Well, and on every BBS that I frequented, the labeling of posters or their ideas as "similar to the Nazis" or "Hitler-like" was a recurrent and often predictable event.
		A "meme," of course, is an idea that functions in a mind the same way a gene or virus functions in the body.
		And an infectious idea (call it a "viral meme") may leap from mind to mind, much as viruses leap from body to body.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.10/godwin.if.html (723 words)

	MEME - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The MEME system was developed by Timothy Bailey, Charles Elkan, and Bill Grundy at the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering department with input from Michael Gribskov at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
		Differences between the current release of the MEME system and earlier releases are described in the release notes.
		MEME and MAST are copyrighted software and can be licensed for commercial use.
	bioweb.pasteur.fr /seqanal/motif/meme (129 words)

	Loca Records // Meme
		MEME is playing a gig on the 7th February 2003 at the Freebuitt in Brighton supporting the Olympic Lifts.
		MEME is recording tracks for the music for a new short film by the french film maker Laurent King.
		MEME is recording some new tracks with Jo (the singer on Affectivity) who has been away travelling in Australia and Bali for the last 9 months.
	www.locarecords.com /meme.html (403 words)

	What's a Meme and why would anyone make one? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memes compete to spread their information though a social population in the same ways genes compete to spread their information content through a biological population.
		The term which encapsulates this metaphor with genes is "meme".
		A whole new school of thinking about knowledge is developing out of the confluence of meme idea on the one hand, and the pancritical epistemology of William Bartley and Sir Karl Popper.
	meme.com /memedef (144 words)

	Flickr: [Meme]
		Meme is inspired and has the power to amaze me with his pictures; this guy's got all the equipement needed and sometimes he strikes so hard that I become speechless...
		When I see Meme's photos I think back to a time of innocence and wish I had a camera to capture those moments.
		"Meme, oltre ad essere una carissima persona,oltre ad essere la persona che ha creduto nei miei scatti, oltre ad aver condiviso con me migliaia di situazioni extra fotografiche, ha tanto di quel talento da poterlo regalare a chi già ne ha parecchio, e poter rimanere ancora avanti...
	www.flickr.com /people/pandapericoloso (906 words)

	Urban Dictionary: meme
		Santa Claus is a more persistent meme than weasel frosting.
		The idea may be spread through all channels of communication (word of mouth, photography, ad campaigns, television, andc.).
		The goal of the meme is to change the thought patterns of the populace.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=meme (522 words)

	Memetics papers on the web
		Memes: Myths, Misunderstandings and Misgivings" (1998): "[The] spectrum of possibilities, from the unwitting, unconscious hosting of culture-borne viruses (of all 'attitudes') to the foresightful design and promulgation of inventions and creations that intelligently and artfully draw upon well-understood cultural resources, must be viewable under a single, unifying perspective."
		Memes and the persistence of organizational structures" Symposium on Memetics: EMIT (1998): Uses the analogy of the cell and its genetic material to describe the organization and its parts.
		Meme X" (1996): "Memes are thought-chains that propagate and compete in the cultural environment...
	users.lycaeum.org /~sputnik/Memetics (6434 words)

	MEME - Submission form
		Use this form to submit DNA or protein sequences to MEME.
		MEME will analyze your sequences for similarities among them and produce a description (motif) for each pat tern it discovers.
		MEME will find the optimum number of sites for each motif within the limits you specify here:
	meme.sdsc.edu /meme/meme.html (127 words)

	The Matrix: MEME (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The root of the word "memetics," a field of study which postulates that the meme is the basic unit of cultural evolution.
		If you want to get MEME delivered directly to your email box bi- weekly, then subscribe by sending a message reading "subscribe MEME firstname lastname" where firsname is replaced by your first name and lastname by your last name (do not include the quote symbols.)
		Trademark Information: MEME is a trademark registered with the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office.
	memex.org /meme.html (221 words)

	MATRIX (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Memes function the same way genes and viruses do, propagating through communication networks and face-to-face contact between people.
		MEME 5.01, Death, Be Not In My Face, an excerpt from Alex Heard's new book Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America.
		You can search all the issues of MEME for whatever you want as well.
	memex.org /welcome.html (354 words)

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