The Philosophy of Kissing. Fab. "Nietzscheian kiss: She/he who does not kiss you, makes your lust stronger."

Also on Trygve Lode's site - The Unnatural Enquirer, and a link to the online Purity Test.

(Via Metafilter.)

Weblogs (AKA blogs) are quite the in thing at the moment, so far as the internet goes.

A couple of good places to see what's going on in the blogging world: weblogs.com, where you can see what has been posted recently, and Daypop, where you can search weblogs, or see what everyone is linking to at the moment.

Google runs a weblog. Slashdot is a weblog really, I suppose, but individual weblogs like mine are the ones on the rise.

Some weblogs that I have come across recently which I like: Snarkey Bitch, Babu's, The Ultimate Insult, Off on a Tangent, Deadly Bloody Serious and SubAverage.

These draft guidelines are pretty good - HTML for content, CSS for layout, no browser specific tricks, ensure accessibility. Cool!

Via The Web Standards Project, via diveintomark.)

Joel's Strategy Letter V talks about why big companies produce open source software - what's in it for them?

And the thing is, there is always a reason, and that reason is never altruism. Which is no surprise.

The reason for IBM's conversion has been obvious to me for some time. They don't make a lot of money from hardware and software any more (the iSeries aside). They make money from services and consultancy.

It is worth pointing out, though, that Java isn't open source.

Update 18th June: Slashdot have picked this up. Lots of heat, not much light.