Lost (and Found) Memes
This is for memes that I've found that seem to have lost their orginal home.If anyone knows their original source, I would gladly link to them instead.
This is for memes that I've found that seem to have lost their orginal home.To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).
REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)
(1) I found this experiment at URL: http://thedailymeme.com/ The Daily Meme.
(2) I found it via "Newsreader Software" or "Browsing the Web" or "Searching the Web" or "An E-Mail Message":
(3) I posted this experiment at URL:
(4) I posted this on date (day, month, year):
(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time):
(6) My posting location is (city, state, country):
OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):
(7) My blog is hosted by:
(8) My age is:
(9) My gender is:
(10) My occupation is:
(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software:
(12) I use the following software to post to my blog:
(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year):
(14) My web browser is:
(15) My operating system is:
Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!
This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).
The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet
http://novaspivack.typepad.com/nova_spivacks_weblog/2004/08/a_sonar_ping_of.html
results and commentary will appear there in the future.
Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate -- the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.
The GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst (this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google (or Technorati) for all blogs that participate in this experiment). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)
Copy it formatted from here -
Bold the ones you've done...
01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula.
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Stayed up all night long, and watch the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights
16. Gone to a huge sports game
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby's diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse
30. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Ridden a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was shit faced
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign
57. Backpacked in Europe
58. Taken a road-trip
59. Rock climbing
60. Lied to foreign government's official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger's table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don't regret it
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who's not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog.
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Sword fought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn't have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Ridden a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an "expert"
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don't remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark..
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror..
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children.
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy.
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. ...more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn't stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn't have survived.
140. Wrote articles for a large publication
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray
145. Broken someone's heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Ridden a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Ridden a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes.
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one "important" author who you missed in school, and read,
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. ...and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions (not on purpose)
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn't know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via LiveJournal
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Been arrested.
1. How many people have you dated that were not naturalised citizens of your country?
2. Have you ever dated someone that was not of your race? How did that work out?
3. How many different countries have you visited?
4. If you could go to a specific country of your choice ... no expenses spared ... where would go visit, and why?
5. What is your favourite international flavour?
6. I love French and Indian movies. What other countries' movies do you enjoy?
7. How many other languages do you speak besides your native language?
8. Do you have international friends, and what countries do they come from?
Found at http://www.dizzy-girl.net/
Sing play along now.
A - Age:
B - Band listening to right now:
C - Career future:
D - Dad's name:
E - Easiest person to talk to:
F - Favorite song:
G - Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms:
H - Hometown:
I - Instruments:
J - Job:
K - Kids:
L - Longest car ride ever:
M - Mom's name:
N - Number of people you slept with:
P - Phobia[s]:
Q - Quote:
R - Reason to smile:
S - Song you sang last:
T - Time you wake up:
U - Unknown fact about me:
V - Vegetable you hate:
W - Worst habit:
X - X-rays you've had:
Y - Yummy food:
Z - Zodiac sign:
Twenty Questions again! And it's all about you.
1. When you buy a greetings card are the words or the picture more important to you?
2. What's your favourite kind of cake?
3. Do you ever make gifts for people, if so what, or do you buy them?
4. What's your favourite holiday - i.e. Christmas?
5. Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where?
6. What was the best party you've ever been to?
7. If you are married, describe your wedding. If not, what would your ideal wedding be like?
8. What's the most romantic thing that's ever happened to you?
9. What's your favourite romantic song?
10. Which celebrity would you like a dream date with?
11. Which female celebrity do you find beautiful?
12. Which male celebrity do you think is attractive?
13. If you could be a fictional character from a book who would you choose?
14. If you could be in a television sit-com, which would you choose?
15. Which character would you like to be?
16. What's your favourite girl's name?
17. What's your favourite boy's name?
18. What's your supermarket of choice?
19. What is your best character trait?
20. What is your worst habit?
Ten movies you’d watch over and over:
Nine people you enjoy the company of:
Eight things you’re wearing:
Seven things on your mind:
Six objects you touch every day:
Five things you do everyday:
Four bands or musical artists that you couldn’t live without:
Three of your favorite songs of the moment:
Two people who have influenced your life the most:
One person who has been nice to you today:
A bunch of questions in groups of three.
THREE THINGS THAT SCARE ME:
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THREE PEOPLE WHO MAKE ME LAUGH:
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THREE THINGS I LOVE:
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THREE THINGS I HATE:
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THREE THINGS I DON'T UNDERSTAND:
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THREE THINGS ON MY DESK:
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THREE THINGS I'M DOING RIGHT NOW:
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THREE THINGS I WANTTO DO BEFORE I DIE:
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THREE THINGS I CAN DO:
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THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY:
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THREE THINGS I CAN'T DO:
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THREE THINGS ITHINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO:
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THREE THINGS I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO EVER:
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THREE OF MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE FOODS:
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THREE THINGS I'D LIKE TO LEARN:
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THREE BEVERAGES I DRINK REGULARLY:
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THREE SHOWS I WATCHED WHEN I WAS A KID:
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Information for various times of your life (past and future)
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A meme to peel aways the layers of you.
LAYER ONE:
-- Name:
-- Birth date:
-- Birthplace:
-- Current Location:
-- Eye Color:
-- Hair Color:
-- Height:
-- Righty or Lefty:
-- Zodiac Sign:
LAYER TWO:
-- Your heritage:
-- The shoes you wore today:
-- Your weakness:
-- Your fears:
-- Your perfect pizza:
-- Goal you'd like to achieve:
LAYER THREE:
-- Your most overused phrase on AIM:
-- Your first waking thoughts:
-- Your best physical feature:
-- Your most missed memory:
LAYER FOUR:
-- Pepsi or Coke:
-- McDonald's or Burger King:
-- Single or group dates:
-- Adidas or Nike:
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:
-- Chocolate or vanilla:
-- Cappuccino or coffee:
LAYER FIVE:
-- Smoke:
-- Cuss:
-- Sing:
-- Take a shower everyday:
-- Do you think you've been in love:
-- Want to go to college:
-- Liked high school:
-- Want to get married:
-- Believe in yourself:
-- Get motion sickness:
-- Think you're attractive:
-- Think you're a health freak:
-- Get along with your parent(s):
-- Like thunderstorms:
-- Play an instrument:
LAYER SIX: In the past month...
-- Drank alcohol:
-- Smoked:
-- Done a drug:
-- Made Out:
-- Gone on a date:
-- Gone to the mall?:
-- Eaten an entire box of Oreos?:
-- Eaten sushi:
-- Been on stage:
-- Been dumped:
-- Gone skating:
-- Made homemade cookies:
-- Gone skinny dipping:
-- Dyed your hair:
-- Stolen Anything:
LAYER SEVEN: Ever...
-- Played a game that required removal of clothing:
-- Been trashed or extremely intoxicated:
-- Been caught "doing something":
-- Been called a tease:
-- Gotten beaten up:
-- Shoplifted:
-- Changed who you were to fit in:
LAYER EIGHT:
-- Age you hope to be married:
-- Numbers and Names of Children:
-- Describe your Dream Wedding:
-- How do you want to die:
-- Where you want to go to college:
-- What do you want to be when you grow up:
-- What country would you most like to visit:
LAYER NINE:
-- Number of drugs taken illegally:
-- Number of people I could trust with my life:
-- Number of CDs that I own:
-- Number of piercings:
-- Number of tattoos:
-- Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper?:
-- Number of scars on my body:
-- Number of things in my past that I regret:
Pick your birth month and cross (strike) out what doesn't apply to you. To strike out you use the S tag. So for the cross out you would surround the "strike out" with <s>strike out</s> . Then post the whole list for the next person or link back to here.
I've seen this one everywhere but never found the original source, but I'll try it anyways... (Can anyone tell me the original source?)
Generally just a list of 100 things about you.
A buncha questions (150) for you to answer.
1. Do you like having your picture taken.
2. Have you ever done a photo shoot, professional or non?
3. If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
4. Who would you take with you on this adventure?
5. What would you say is the most daring thing to do in a lifetime.
6. Would you ever do that?
7. Have you ever done crossword puzzles?
8. Ever actually completed one?
9. Pick up the closest book and write a sentence at random from it.
10. Do the same with either a CD or a lyric from the radio.
11. Have you ever tried to analyze your own dreams?
12. Would you put up posters in your room?
13. Can you sing?
14. Do you ever sing to yourself while doing every day tasks?
15. What's your favorite color of post-it note?
16. How many cassette tapes do you own?
17. How many CDs do you own?
18. Ever bought a CD just for one song?
19. What would your perfect day consist of?
20. Have you ever lied to get off the phone or out of talking to someone online?
21. Have you ever written a survey?
22. How about a song? If so, share it.
23. Or maybe a poem? If so share it or one of them.
24. Is your VCR flashing 12:00 all the time?
25. Do you read your horoscope?
26. If so do you base your day on it?
27. Would you rather chew gum or use mouthwash, and why?
28. Do you floss?
29. Are you addicted to Napster like me?
30. How many times a year (about) are you sick?
31. Ever been in an airplane?
32. If so, where were you flying to?
33. What radio station do you listen to most?
34. What color are your shoes?
35. Was Fuzzy Wuzzy a bear?
36. Do you know how to play Dominos?
37. Or do you think I just mean pizza by that?
38. Speaking of pizza, what's your favorite kind?
39. What color are your eyes?
40. How many surveys have you filled out this lifetime?
41. Describe your bedroom. Include all details.
42. Name one person your life is made better by.
43. Would you or have you ever shaved your head?
44. How about someone else's?
45. Can you do math with ease?
46. What size is your computer screen?
47. If you could only talk to one person online who would it be?
48. Name your favorite type of music and why?
49. Are you a vegetarian?
50. How about an aspiring actor/actress?
51. What famous person, dead or alive, would you interview if you had the chance?
52. Which movie can you watch and say the lines along with the actors?
53. Name one of your passions in life.
54. What is your least favorite time of day?
55. Who is your favorite member in a band (singer, guitar, bass, drummer...) and why?
56. Do you use hairspray or gel?
57. Describe your favorite meal.
58. What color is the inside of your head when you close your eyes?
59. Ever listen to classical music?
60. Have you ever said LOL in real life without thinking about it.
61. Do you find you use Internet language when writing notes IRL?
62. What songs would be on your ideal CD?
63. Say one thing you learned today.
64. What is the best present you've ever given someone else?
65. What is the best present someone else has ever given you?
66. So hey, what's your full name?
67. Describe yourself while drunk.
68. How big are the windows in your house?
69. Do you wear a watch?
70. What's the kinkiest thing you've ever done with someone else?
71. What's the largest age difference between you and someone you've dated?
72. How many mirrors do you have?
73. Write one sentence you want people to say about you once you've passed on.
74. Have you ever sailed?
75. How fast can you run?
76. What do you believe in?
77. How long does it take you to get ready to go out?
78. Do you shower daily?
79. What one thing would you change in your life if you had the power to do so?
80. Describe the ideal superpower and what you would do if you had it.
81. Are candles romantic or a fire hazard?
82. Name something you've done in the last 24 hours, no matter how big or small.83. Do you wear necklaces/bracelets/anklets/earrings/rings?
84. What colors are you wearing right now?
85. How often do you change the sheets on your bed?
86. Have you ever gotten lost? If so, explain.
87. What's on your computer desk?
88. How many folders are on your desktop at the present moment?
89. When you're talking do you ever use your hands in the air to do quotation marks of certain words?
90. Which landmark would you climb if you could?
91. Do you own or have you read or thought of reading any self help books.
92. Ever seriously questioned your sanity?
93. Can you break-dance?
94. What's in your fridge right now?
95. How many people do you live with?
96. Have you or would you ever do anything more than kiss in a public area?
97. What is the strangest thing you've ever done?
98. Name an instrument you've never played but would like to.
99. Have you ever been on TV or the radio?
100. What is the worst thing anyone could ever do to you?
101. Are you a fast typer?
102. How high have you counted before getting bored?
103. Describe how you sleep.
104. Are you straight/bi/gay?
105. Do you ever do something else while on the computer? If so, what?
106. What is the most expensive item you own?
107. How about the least expensive?
108. What's your favorite card game to play?
109. What do you do online?
110. Name some stores you've bought clothes in before?
111. Have you ever read a book and not understood it? If so, which one?
112. Have you ever watched a movie and not understood it? If so, which one?
113. Do you think people pick up your slang language more than you pick up theirs?
114. Are you easily influences by other people or current trends?
115. What makes you unique (in your own opinion)?
116. Name your worst quality.
117. Name your best.
118. What would you like to do with your life?
119. Do you blow-dry your hair?
120. How many clocks are in your house?
121. Are they all set at the same time?
122. Have you ever intentionally set a clock ahead or behind the correct time?
123. What do you think about when you first wake up in the morning?
124. Which browser do you use?
125. Do you bite your nails?
126. Would you ever leave little notes to your gf/bf?
127. Ever been to a farm?
128. Tell me about your dream last night.
129. Ever seen a shooting star?
130. Say one thing about yourself you've never told anyone.
131. Do your days fly by or seem to last forever?
132. Have you ever stayed in a fancy, high class, rich hotel?
133. Have you ever stayed in a rent-by-the-hour motel?
134. What, in your opinion, is the best advertising slogan out there?
135. When they start sending rockets to the moon for us civillians will you be on the list to go?
136. How are you feeling right now?
137. Have you ever written anything on your skin?
138. If so what?
139. Which website do you frequent most often?
140. What color is most of your clothes?
141. Do you own any plants?
142. Are things as bad as they seem?
143. Describe the nicest thing anyone has ever done for you.
144. Have you ever looked directly at the sun?
145. Have you ever made a pin hole camera to watch the eclipse?
146. What's your favorite cereal?
147. Who do you miss?
148. Name something you just cannot forget, no matter how hard you try.
149. Describe the worst fight you've ever been in whether physical or verbal.
150. Say something else about yourself you've never told anyone before.
Answer the 26 alphabetized questions.
A-ACT YOUR AGE:
B-BOYFRIEND:
C-CHORE YOU HATE:
D-DAD'S NAME:
E-ESSENTIAL MAKE UP/TOILETRY ITEM:
F-FAVE ACTOR/ACTRESS:
G-GOLD OR SILVER:
H-HOMETOWN:
I-INSTRUMENTS YOU PLAY:
J-JOB TITLE:
K-KIDS:
L-LIVING ARRANGEMENTS:
M-MOM'S NAME:
N-# OF PEOPLE YOU'VE SLEPT WITH:
O-OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS:
P-PHOBIA:
Q-QUOTE YOU LIKE:
R-RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION:
S-SIBLINGS:
T-TIME YOU WAKE UP:
U - UNIQUE HABIT:
V-VEGETABLE YOU REFUSE TO EAT:
W-WORST HABIT:
X-X-RAYS YOU'VE HAD:
Y-YUMMY FOOD YOU MAKE:
Z-ZODIAC SIGN:
Found this at...
When you first met your current main squeeze (husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, significant other, sex partner, WHATEVER!)
I don't know where I found this one. Looking for a link to the original source.