Furat Actor

Do we have a meme entry for eyebleach yet?

That was why I wanted to air the question -- I wasn’t sure whether it would be more appropriate to confound memes with habits, or whether we were looking at something almost like an ethological fixed action pattern.

Watcher’s article about Wikis got me thinking about other interesting stuff that we could classify as a meme. I noticed a few years back that as eBay became increasingly popular, people started rating items on Amazon.com as if it were eBay -- specifically, dinging a book or movie if the product came damaged or they didn’t like the packaging. This makes sense from an eBay standpoint because the person who runs the seller page is also responsible for shipping. But it doesn’t make as much sense from an...