Moristotle evolved

Moristotle underwent an evolution of sorts today. Its template was upgraded and some bells and whistles were added.
    No more masthead photo, but a feature photo at the top of the sidebar, followed by a Blogger-provided "table of contents," now pointing to separate "feature pages" instead of sections of the sidebar. I've consequently expanded the number of recently read books and recently viewed movies and TV series displayed, to 30 as homage to "dirty books." Plus the possibility of creating additional feature pages, up to ten in all.
    Much more accessible archives, with drop-downs displaying titles by month selected. Perhaps the single most valuable enhancement.
    Plus various "gadgets," such as one identifying followers and providing an easy means for others to register as followers. (Registering as a "follower" signifies that you consider a blog a favorite and want to let the author and readers know that you are a fan.)
    Another gadget lists (or shows a "cloud") of selected labels with which I've tagged posts. In reviewing the very long list of labels to select ones for display in the sidebar, I saw that I seriously need to prune synonyms. For example, I found "photo" and "photos," and "theism," "theist," and "theists." That's going to be tedious to fix. (I may even give up my practice of just throwing in a label as a way of commenting on the subject of a post, such as "nincompoop" for George W. Bush.)
    But overall: Wow, what fun!

An evolution "of sorts," not evolution by natural selection. As Sam Harris writes in his latest book, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values,

The obvious difference between genes and memes [from Richard Dawkins's Selfish Gene, 1976] (e.g., beliefs, ideas, cultural practices) is also important to keep in view. The latter are communicated; they do not travel with the gametes of their human hosts. The survival of memes, therefore, is not dependent on their conferring some actual benefit (reproductive or otherwise) on individuals or groups. It is quite possible for people to traffic in ideas and other cultural products that diminish their well-being for centuries on end.

(I suspect that millions of men and women's sitting on their keesters blogging and reading blogs will indeed diminish their well-being over time.)