Month: March 2004

American site about Japanese 1970’s TV show “Monkey” ( 西遊記 = さいゆうき = saiyuuki) which I would bet spawned some of the flying-monkey imagery in Dragon Ball Z.

Monkey was based on the Chinese story Hsi Yu Chi (= Journey to the West), which not coincidentally is spelled with the same characters ( 西遊記 ). I’m sure you could trace the monkey character back to the Hindu god Hanuman.
Web link of note: MonkeyHeaven (Monkey Magic)
(At http://www.monkeyheaven.com/)

premium espresso machines! Kind of a monster, but hey!
Web link of note: Pasquini
(At http://www.pasquini.com/)

For a good time, search for “Jeremy Bentham” online and find out what happened to his body after he died.

why do psycho wingnut protesters attack the very existence of queer Americans, ostensibly based on the biblical doctrine, and then still eat shellfish? See you in hell hypocrites!
Web link of note: God Hates Shrimp!
(At http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/)

Random San Rafael amateur production company- starting in February, they aim to have a completed feature by May 1st. Ambitious isn’t it?

Their title: Sixteen Pound Sledge vs The Vegas Vampire.

I think it’s a just-for-fun thing- they didn’t even have a script in February. I personally can’t see putting so much effort into a random design-by-comittee venture, but that’s just my personal preference. Good luck guys!
Web link of note: Banana Racket Productions
(At http://www.bananaracket.com/)

CUBIS, like wigu, is a sort of surreal story web comic that has a name derived from an acronym.

Actually that’s about the only thing they have in common.

Anyway, Can U Believe I’m Single? is not really as common or succinct a phrase as When I Grow Up (the name of wigu‘s predecessor).
Web link of note: CUBIS
(At http://www.cubis.tk/)

Looking for eCommerce solutions on PHP backed by MySQL and Apache. Turns out there are a lot of them!

• phPay, written by Germans with Apache and MySQL. Looks pretty good… it tracks sessions…
  • features
  • Demo Site
  • admin demo site. It claims to have stock-tracking (inventory), which is essential, but I don’t see it!

• ZenCart is a very large system… It looks a little busy and I’m not sure how much I’d have to strip it down. It doesn’t look like there is any inventory admin screens either.
  • showcase of live sites
  • sourceforge page

• osCommerce is also very large…
  They claim to have “product statistics” (which may be inventory) but the admin demo is not online.
  • SourceForge page
  • feature list
  • live stores using osCommerce

• phpShop is a little more spartan- here is their SourceForge page. They have themes and “addons” but I can’t seem to find an online demo.

I just saw Debbie Harry on “I Love the 70’s” on VH1… She looks good, but not when you compare to her pictures in her prime (1979).

I mean obviously… she was super hot. You know what would be a cool look for her? Sort of a scary goth supervillain thing, like Angelica Huston’s “evil queen” character in Captiain EO. Yeah ok, maybe I’m on crack, but it would still be cool. Fading celebrities make great zany supervillains. Like the Liptons Tea commercial where Bruce Willis is an action hero fighting… The Jeffersons! Awesome.