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title: Muggles and Memetics
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- personal
content-tags:
- book
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I joined Kristan last night for the release of the 5th Harry Potter book.  It was quite surreal to see a bookstore packed with people, more surreal considering the not-quite-bookish nature of the crowd.

While there I picked up a copy of _[The Electric
Meme][1]_ by Robert Aunger.  It looks to be a serious discussion of memes that will actually expand upon Dawkins's ideas rather than merely riding the hype.

   [1]: http://allconsuming.net/item.cgi?isbn=0743201507
