I Kill Spies

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.

Made into a movie in the 1960s, it’s a apocalyptic science fiction story about carnivorous plants grown as a crop, and wiping out humanity after a freak accident which leaves 99% of the world’s population blind.

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little tidbits on making your table borders have that one-pixel pinstripe on EVERY browser. Cross-browser pinstripes. Or something.
Web link of note: CSS: one pixel border
(At http://www.visakopu.net/misc/table-border-css/)

Cigarro is a cranky chain-smoking girl rabbit who looks like a guy. Cerveja is her quirky nice-guy goose friend. Together they form a comic duo that could almost be representative of duelling philosophies, or even the unconscious mind.

Actually, skip all that; it’s a funny comic.

I bought the first collection at APE.
Web link of note: Cigarro & Cerveja
(At http://www.cigarro.ca/update.html)

This guy is funny… he makes short films.
Web link of note: ChokerSandwich
(At http://chokersandwich.com/)

Crack 2D barcodes! Viva La Revolución!
Web link of note: SWIPE project
(At http://www.turbulence.org/Works/swipe/barcode.html)

Japanese movie. I have no idea what it is.
Web link of note: Casshern
(At http://www.casshern.com/)

I remember the video for “Come Undone” (Duran Duran song) with Kate Bush singing in her ridiculously high voice, thrashing around underwater… My friends and I used to sing her parts along with samples from techno from the early 1990s, driving around late at night, back when Live 105 had more than 10 songs in its playlist.

Except the other day when vaguely recollecting this I got shouted down by some Duran Duran enthusiasts, who told me it was a guy doing the vocals. The woman in the ocean was an actress? No Kate Bush at all. Sure enough they showed me the CD and her name is nowhere on it.

Well wait, was she or wasn’t she? My friends remember her being in that song too. Are we all making this up? Dammit.

Collective memory is all we have left… especially with all the historical revisionism happening these days.

The Holocaust. Rush Limbaugh’s war on drugs. Why we attacked Iraq. And now Kate Bush. What’s next, I ask you.