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When Memes Attack

Apparently, I’ve been tagged for a viral experiment of sorts. Specifically, it’s called The Indie Virus, also known as “the virus you want to catch.”

Now before you go leaping for the Lysol, let me explain. This is kind of like a meme — it’s a viral linking campaign from the mind of Chris Pearson at Pearsonified. You can read more about it here, but suffice to say that I’m supposed to link to someone else’s blog article with the anchor text “The Indie Virus.” Rumor has it that if I do this 100 times, Bill Gates will send me free tickets to Walt Disney World. Or maybe I’ll get free Viagra.

Free Viagra at Disney World? Shudder. I mean, like most American males, I once had the hots for Cinderella, but that was before puberty, for Pete’s sake.

This is the fault of Chilihead at Don’t Try This at Home. Remind me to… er, thank her later.

Naturally, I’ll pick on my brother. If your going to give someone a virus, it might as well be family. So click on The Indie Virus and take a gander at Mike’s take on cabbies and the tourists they prey upon.

Published in: Not a Real Linker | on April 2nd, 2006 |

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6 Comments Leave a comment.

  1. On April 2, 2006 at 3:36 pm Fred Holland Said:

    I was once sent a “cajun’ bad to the bone virus” and was instructed that since they didn’t have any computer skills the virus worked on the honor system. I was instructed to delete all the files on my hard drive after I manually sent the “virus” to everyone on my mailing list. It was viscious.

  2. On April 2, 2006 at 3:49 pm Joe Goodwin Said:

    In younger and less responsible days, I occasionally trotted out a chat room prank that ran along similar lines. I’d enter some enticing phrase such as:

    Hi! I’m a 18-year-old blonde cheerleader from Paducah! Hit ALT-F4 to see my picture!

    This would invariably result in the abrupt log-off of 3/4 of the chatroom participants. For you see, ALT-F4 is used by most Windows programs as a hotkey for “shut down this program.”

  3. On April 2, 2006 at 5:46 pm chilihead Said:

    You’re welcome! Any time! ;) (Ducking for cover.)

  4. On April 2, 2006 at 10:14 pm Nancy Said:

    Okay Joe..so does Mike PAY YOU to promote his website or WHAT? ha ha. I will admit (and yes this is an INSULT to me)..but I will admit..I UNDERSTAND Mike’s website more than I EVER do yours sometimes…Yours is TOO ADVANCED and STAR TREKIE and or RISKY/STRATEGO-EY! ha ha

  5. On April 2, 2006 at 10:18 pm Mike Goodwin Said:

    Hi Joe. I know you tried to explain it over the phone, but I guess I need to read up a little more on it. I basically understand the concept, and any exposure to my blog would be welcome. Right now, MSN is my only friend. Google nor Yahoo have yet to pick up on me. :-( I did receive my first referal from a search engine, though, according to sitemeter. MSN, of course. I did a post on the crazy Lifetime Television movies that they show. This person did a search consisting of: lifetime televison “presumed dead” Hey, I made page 2. I’m famous. :-)

  6. On April 3, 2006 at 3:31 pm Mike Goodwin Said:

    No offense, Nancy, but you and I were the underachievers in school. Joe writes about real life intelligent subjects with humor thrown in. I write about Barely Manenough, Karaoke, and taxi cabs, with SEMI humor stuff thrown in. That’s more on our level. :-) Plus, I’m not a good debater. If I wrote something political, and someone challanged me, I would cower in the corner. haha

    And YES, I pay him. 5 cents per word. I think I owe him about 50 dollars now. :-)

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