p23s5

To those of you who have been playing the page 23, sentence 5 meme, there's a thorough autopsy from LaughingMeme that attempts to determine its point of origin.

A little research showed that this particular contagion had been raging for nearly a full week in the meme prone LiveJournal community before we saw it on blogs (spreading at an astonishing rate no doubt due to the extreme proximity that the members of that community operate in, though it might also signal a dangerous lack of mimetic diversity to have the entire population so susceptible). The key inflection point for the blog community seems to be the April 11th posting on caterina.net; the highly connected nature of an "A-list" blogger pushing the population of exposed individual over the density threshold from isolated cases to epidemic.

The comment section is worthy of perusing also.