Memetics
I have finally jumped on the ‘blog meme bandwagon. A meme, for those of you who aren’t up with this latest trendy techno terminology, is the name given by people who write idiotic online quizzes to the code they write onto their results pages which you can copy-and-paste onto your personal webspace, weblog or whatever to show off to your friends how you did.
Dan has created a beautifully pointless and horribly gaudy example of this web page furniture*:
Anyway, long have I been critical of these pointless quizzes and absurd surveys with their brightly-coloured boxes of results which can then be crammed down your ‘blog readers’ collective throat by pasting some poorly-written HTML into your next entry.
I did almost post a ‘meme’ on here once in that I put a trimmed-down version of my “Who Should You Vote For?” analysis in an entry. However, that was as far as my extremely limited love of memes extended. Until now.
Do not fear: my ‘blog will not now be littered with image-laden rectangles telling you what kind of vegetable I am or how many points I score on the whatever-boring-variable-the-quiz-writer-chooses-to-think-he-can-measure-with-a-couple-of-pages-of-stupid-questions-o-meter. My leap into the meme pool is going to be as a meme provider.
So, behold, a meme of my very own:
certified by
The Statto-JTA Mock Driving Theory Test
Your driving is a little reserved.
There’s nothing wrong with a tiny bit of extra braking distance or checking your lights before every journey. Or covering your car in a three-metre thick, flame-retardant foam coating developed by NASA.
take the test at
www.ktab.co.uk/drivingtheorytest
It is now possible, as you have just seen, to get a meme output from the The Statto-JTA Mock Mock Theory Test which will classify your driver type using a complicated bespoke algorithm. I implore all readers of my ‘blog to go forth and paste their result meme wherever they can!
* Dan’s, to its credit, is at least XHTML compliant. And meant as a joke.