I’ve been tagged by Dan with a genetic algorithm meme of sorts! The rules are kind of interesting:

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

* You can leave them exactly as is.

* You can delete any one question.

* You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.

* You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

* You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

Here we go! I’ve indicated Dan’s mutations in blue and mine in red.

1) The best romantic movie in independent film is: Secretary
2) The best inspirationally dramatic song from 80s hard rock is: Europe - The Final Countdown
3) The best anti-war song in working-class folk music is: Bob Marley - Get up, Stand up
4) The best educational TV show on science while growing up was: 3-2-1 Contact

And for my genealogy we have:

My great7-grandparent is Pharyngula.
My great6-grandparents are The Flying Trilobite and Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.
My great5-grandparents are Flying Trilobite and Leslie’s Blog.
My great4-grandparents are A Blog Around the Clock and The Meming of Life.
My great3-grandparents are From Archaea to Zeaxanthol and The Primate Diaries.
My great2-grandfather is The Other 95%.
My great-grandfather is Tangled Up in Blue Guy
My grandfather is Greg Laden.
My father is Migrations.

Of course, this wouldn’t be half as fun without tagging a few others as my progeny:

Action Allen
Jared Lee
Ralford.net
Dreaming Life
The Naked Galaxy