Not a MetaBlog

I'm very interested in the concept of "meta." I first got a grip on the meaning of the term when my son was reading Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five." He told me that it was "meta fiction," or fiction about fiction. This was the "light bulb" for me that explained to me (finally) the meaning of the term metadata. In an old program, MS FoxPro, you can copy the structure of a data table using the "extended" keyword, and it will create a table containing the names of the fields and the specifics about them for the table you copied - data about data.

I have since run across a number of other uses of the prefix meta. My personal favorite was a baseball cap I got from a co-worker who was getting rid of stuff. Shell bought a lot of customized "perks" for the crew when they would start a new well project. This hat had prices on it based on quantity and number of lines and colors of custom print. It was a meta hat - a hat about hats.

Another really cool meta object is Rob Walker's Meta Poll. This is a link, so check it out.

I read someone's description of the Nauvoo temple that made me think that Nauvoo could be construed as a meta temple. Probably not.

If you know of any other good metas, let me know. Meta law? A meta blog? A meta journal?