The superbowl ad competition has begun. Since I’m a geek and not at a superbowl party this year I thought I’d join the masses likely making commentary on the Superbowl ads coming out. So far the only one to have caught my attention is the FedEx ad. I find it unusual as an ad…

On January 5th of this year Bill Gates, in an interview with CNET made a statement that irked quite a few people. After the interviewer asked Mr. Gates if he thought intellectual property laws should be reformed…

Chris Anderson of the Long Tail blog identified a trend in commerce that he calls the Long Tail some issues ago in Wired Magazine. To summarize his observation, most (offline) stores have a limitation of physical capacity that keeps them from selling everything under the sun…

The term meme was first coined by Richard Dawkins in his seminal book “The Selfish Gene” [amazon link] and has been explored by numerous scientists and hackers alike in an attempt to discover if memes are more than just a conceptual model for ideas.

Memes apparently aren’t hard to catch…

This entry is actually an attempt to help an artist named David Sullivan retain his ego after he is gone. I’m probably reaching, but I think it is fair to say that David Sullivan is the first human being to utilize Google as a Deus ex…

If a meme’s quality is high it will have good copy fidelity — meaning that it can spread without out being changed too much. I would define a bad meme then as a meme that cannot be replicated in media or language. These sentences then would be some seriously bad memes. I DARE you to try to read, comprehend and repeat them.