This blog meme was created by Pharyngula as a means of demonstrating evolution in cyberspace:
There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is...". Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:
* You can leave them exactly as is.
* You can delete any one question.
* You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change "The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is..." to "The best time travel novel in Westerns is...", or "The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is...", or "The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is...".
* You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form "The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is...".
* You must have at least one question in your set, or you've gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you're not viable.
Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.
Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.
My great-great-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My grandparent is Flying Trilobite
My parent is A Blog Around the Clock
The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is:
Ilium by Dan Simmons
The best scary movie in scientific dystopias is:
Children of Men
The best sexy song in hip hop is:
"Mind Sex" by Dead Prez.
The best cult novel in beat fiction is:
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
I am propagating this meme on to:
Cafe Philos
Laelaps
Neurophilosophy
Afarensis
Thus Spake Zuska
Living the Scientific Life
The Other 95%
Remote Central
Conspiracy Factory
Planet Doom
Archaeozoo
It'll be interesting to see how this experiment ends up. Don't let it go extinct!
3 comments:
Done.
http://conspiracyfactory.blogspot.com/2007/10/pharyngula-mutating-genre-meme.html
Thanks for including me.
This was fun; thanks for giving me a chance to play! You can see my post here http://scienceblogs.com/thusspakezuska
/2007/10/pharyngulas_mutating_genre_
mem.php
I had to put the link on three lines to get it to all appear in the comment field, so you'll have to cut and paste to use it. Maybe it's just my browser that makes it look screwy but I wanted to be sure...
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