Mr. Freunfelder, listen to me, and listen good. I am a research scientist in the field of memetics. 10 years ago I wrote a paper called, "Memes that could destroy the Internet, and possibly the whole of modern civilization." It was this paper that led to the successful quarantine and subsequent eradication of the Numa Numa meme.

In the aforementioned paper, The No-post Blog Post was on the top of a list of the 4 most dangerous memes which if released to the net could eradicate the intarwebs as we know it.

Just imagine, boing boing, youtube, slashdot, salon, all inundated with contentless content.

And it won't just stop with the internet; Movies, television shows, music, even your MIND -- all left in a Zen-like tabula Rasa. And it gets worse, there will be... There will be... I... I can't think.... mind... going.... blank...My god, it's already begun!

For the love of god, Fraunfelder, delete this post while you still have the chance! While we still have an Internet!

If you read every single comment in under two one minute and thirty seconds it leaves an after image in your head that allows you to view the original post as it was intended which is a simple but detailed explication of the meaning of life the universe and everything, no not not the book by Douglas Adams (though it does make several references to it), but the real meaning of life the universe and everything but if it takes you two minutes and thirty one seconds, hello.jpg will be permanently seared into your retina and that's the only thing you'll ever be able to see forever until you die.

"This shit writes itself."

Tt has indeed been written; The Boy In Zaquitos by Bruce McAllister. It's about a CIA operative who is a 'Chronic asymptomatic Carrier" of the plague. As MKULTRA pointed out, viruses need to be able to produce such carriers in order to be very successful. The CIA used their 'CAC' (the goberment loves them some acronyms) as a sort of Guided Missile version of Typhoyd Mary. I don't this happens to be the case here, but it's not such a stretch of the imagination to assume that our government has done such a thing in the past.

"The highly deadly organism..."

I hope I don't seem quite the pedant as FARMFOODIE, but I would like to note that Viruses are generally not considered organisms. A virus is little more than a bit of DNA housed in a coat of protien. No cells, no independant reproduction, no metabolization, etcetera...

The plague however, which is also carried by rodents can be refered to as an organism becuase it is a bacterial disease.