So I feel like it's about time to call this point v0.2.

I like releasing Alphas because everything can always be in flux. But isn't that the way the emerging web should be?

At Amazon, we always said, "The web isn't shrink-wrap." We'd make a formal release, and then scramble for the next few hours fixing things--at the same time throwing in little things that the manager might not have "approved."

For what it's worth, in this release:

• Additions to the home page: rotating mottos and examples.
• Cleaned up the DB.
• Released the ThnLnk This! bookmarklet.
• Blocked linking back to ThnLnk and ThnLnk'g images. (Though this is a policy decision that may be reversed.)
• Fixed a bug in the hostname parsing that screwed up with country-specific domains.
• Fixed regex clobbering of non-English characters.
• Fixed bug regarding tildes and plus signs.
• Added Google AdSense - hopefully it's non-obtrusive enough. But we have to fix the fact that the ads are having trouble being relevant.
• Added some sense of humor. Subject to management whims.