<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2bf47881-9c83-40a7-ad04-bfec7e12bf0a/693C892B-2DB0-473B-99B1-21D2F80B1156/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/" href="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/" style="font-size: 11px;">thedailymeme.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/">This is the definition page for "What is a meme?" <BR />The main page for <A href="http://thedailymeme.com/" set="yes">The Daily Meme</A> is <A href="http://thedailymeme.com/" set="yes">http://thedailymeme.com/</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"> People often ask, "What is a Meme?" so here's a more than a little information on that. I pronounce it so it's rhymes with 'dream'; some pronounce it so it sounds like 'mem' (from mem-ory).</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"><H2 class="title">Other information from around the web</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"> A meme is: <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">An idea that, like a gene, can replicate and evolve. </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">A unit of cultural information that represents a basic idea that can be transferred from one individual to another, and subjected to mutation, crossover and adaptation. </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">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".</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"><H2 class="title">Origins of the word</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/thedailymeme.com/img/641D4CBE-7C93-4AFF-9AB2-361841B8A22B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/">The term and concept of meme is from the 1976 book by Richard Dawkins, <A target="The Selfish Gene" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0192860925/garylapointe-20" set="yes">The Selfish Gene</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"><H2 class="title">Other Sources</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme" set="yes">Wikipedia</A><A> </A></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=define:+meme&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" set="yes">Google</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://maxwell.lucifer.com/virus/alt.memetics/what.is.html"> alt.memetics</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Meme">Wiktionary</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="http://open-dictionary.com/Meme">Open-dictionary</A></LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/">The Daily Meme</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/693C892B-2DB0-473B-99B1-21D2F80B1156/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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