Top Memes of the Week

In an ongoing experiment in extracting the most popular memes from today's weblogs, I've discovered that my automated methods which use fancy computer al-go-rith-mmms, quantum physics, half a dozen muses, a full tank of premium unleaded and whole lot of luck must be supplemented with judicious editing.

In an extreme example: Is Blogger a popular meme since everyone links to it? Hmmmm.... No.

And on down the list, I hack and chop away the links that, in my opinion, are not current and topical. Sorry to all the Blog-this-and-Blog-thats that didn't make the cut.

I'll need to decide where to put this up permanently. For now, this is as good a place as any for the first ever: Top Memes of the Week.

Independents Day Celebrating independent content and design... OK then...

Mirror Project The website formerly known as FOJM: Friends of Jezebel's Mirror. "The Mirror Project is a growing community of like-minded individuals who have snapped their likenesses in a variety of reflective surfaces. You are more than welcome to join us in our reckless pursuit of what some consider narcissism. But, if you think it's narcissistic, you're missing the point." Cool. Greggman and I are both in here.

Ageless "We're sending the message that the personal, creative side of the web is diverse and ageless and if each of you personal website builders out there will openly share your date of birth with us, we'll be on our way to proving it!" Half the people are born in the 1970s. I guess we've got nothing better to do.

Exploding Dog "hi my name is sam, i draw pictures, from your titles." Excellent!

Weblog Hipness Quiz Here is a popular link that makes me wonder: in what context was this linked? It's pretty useless. We all know that to get a high score you'd probably choose: Zeldman, Tableless, Your own CMS, Yes, More and Yes. But those of us in the know know that "image and table intensive web design" is more fun, and waaaay more hip.

Google Zeitgeist The World Wide Web according to Google. "For both breaking news and obscure information alike, people around the world search on Google at www.google.com. With a bit of analysis, this flurry of searches often exposes interesting trends, patterns, and surprises."

Why I Log Why do you weblog? Have you forgotten your roots?

Reach Out and Touch Someone: How Bob and His Binoculars Found More Bandwidth and Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bond Can't get DSL because you're too far from the C.O.? Then find someone living close enough to the C.O. that you have a line of sight to. Next, convince him you'll buy DSL for him as long as you can tap into the DSL with a wireless connection from your home!

Is Dick Cheney Dead Yet Check this regularly to see if Dick Cheney is still alive.

A.I. and A.I. What's the big deal with this movie?

Death of a Dot-Com The press is to blame for the Dot-Com-Bust! Don't Stop Believin'!

Universal Chat Is this really the ultimate chat program? Will this software, in one fell swoop, unite the entire chatting community?

20 Things "twenty people made twenty things each in twenty days. then we swapped. we had two groups for the first swap, and we'll be having more, soon. sign up below to be notified of the site launch and upcoming swaps."

Hands Off My Dot Org ICANN wants to revert dot-orgs "to its originally intended function as a registry operated by and for non-profit organizations."

Photographica upload/share/review your pictures. A community photo-blog.

The Smoking Gun "The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents -- cool, confidential, quirky -- that can't be found elsewhere on the Web."

Hey Let's Be Cool and Rock! Whatever...

Typographic Voices "In order to gain insight into typographic approaches currently in use, we contacted a group of designers from around the country who are using typography in innovative ways and asked them about the role it plays in their work, their influences and their creative processes."

Other Sunday rituals can prove to be stiff competition for churches Church needs to be more like Barnes and Noble to keep up with the times. Hehe.

The Periodic Table for Men And after spending all that time memorizing the other Periodic Table...

Confidential Movie News Just like the title.

So You Want to be an Interaction Designer Why would you? Haha.