I have nothing against the notion of pro-life, I am an atheist liberal who is pro-choice, who admired Mother Theresa.

Mother Theresa practiced what she preached. She said that she would personally look after any child brought to her that would have been aborted.

I would not ask everyone who is anti-abortion to become Mother Theresa, however I would say that they are immoral if they do not also support raised taxes and a larger welfare budget. You cannot be a Republican and pro-life.

Sadly, issues promoted by most pro-lifers cause more people to die.

Pro-life means ‘erring on the side of life’, unless it means killing people guilty of pre-meditated killing - by means of pre-meditated killing.

Pro-life means no abortion, but it does not mean raising taxes and providing welfare to keep abandoned or neglected children alive.

Pro-life means spending money to keep people alive using a feeding tube but it doesn’t mean spending money feeding helpless millions.

Pro-life means supporting missionaries migrating to South America to urge against contraception but it does not mean supporting immigration to North America when resources are no longer enough to support large populations.

Congrats to Joshua on delicious funding. [delicious-discuss] big news

Having now looked at the way people are using tags on wists, it seems like the most useful way to avoid tag overload is to bundle tags into search so that search is the gateway to both full text search and tags i.e. tags are a way of narrowing down structured searches.

This means that we can probably drastically simplify the Wists interface.

Currently working on full layout control via the url so that you can create cut and paste javascript code to place Wists galleries on your site, rather like Flickr’s badges. More details on the wistsblog.

The long tail is jagged, fractal

Instructions on chopsticks are always fascinating, but this was a classic:

From disposable chopsticks in a Thai restaurant:

“Welcome to Chinese Restaurant.
Please try your Nice Chinese Food With Chopsticke the traditional and trpical of Chinese glorious history and cultual” [sic]

Having sold our cars and packed all our belongings into a massive truck we moved to NY this week.

The curious thing is that it feels better to have a bag of clothes, a cellphone and a laptop and nothing else, which begs the question as to why I ever buy anything.

Now that I’m here I’ll be working on Wists in earnest - have setup a blog: wistsblog and will be fleshing out faq’s and general Wists info, over the next week or so.

From Joshua’s list, looks like delicious have added ‘metatags’. del.icio.us/joshua

Although we implemented from get go in Wists - Joshua said that he had been thinking about this for a while - so is good news all round.

Hopefully sharing metatags amongst multiple systems will be good for everyone, since its looks like some standard metatags such as location= are emerging.

Delicious continues to rule!

Thanks to some fantastic work by Adam Michela at Axentric, there is a much improved ‘add to Wists‘ bookmarklet which can be installed from here, or reinstalled via the help menu in Wists.

The new ‘wistlet’ has the following features:

Now grabs CSS background images.

Removes duplicate images.

Allows choosing a thumbnail screenshot of the page itself, if you don’t like any of the images shown.

Best of all, it is remotely updatable - so we will be able to add new features with you having to re-install.

NB: the new bookmaklet works with most browsers and versions, except for Safari - the original bookmarklet is still available via the Wists help menu, for Safari users.

Ahem

Am selling my car for the move to NY, its a 66 Mustang convertible. Mail me if you are interested!

(Also using the out=plain layout parameter and forsale= metatag to experiment with using wists to create galleries of things for sale)