On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Niklas Frykholm wrote:

> >> I hadn't thought about logging a block... thanks for the meme.
> > 
> > [ruby-talk:11649] might help you more.
> > By the way, what does 'meme' mean?
> > ...sigh, for me, English is harder than Ruby.
> 
> A 'meme' is a thought pattern, an idea that has the capability of
> spreading from brain to brain.
> 
> The word, I believe, was coined as a paralel to 'gene'. Someone
> suggested (don't know how seriously) that thoughts and ideas could be
>
I think Richard Dawkins was first, in his book "The Selfish Gene" from
1976.

> Personally, I think this is an interesting viewpoint, but hardly the
> full picture. Human minds are not merely passive vessels for reproducing
> ideas.
> 
I fully agree.

/Robert Feldt