For my fellow linux geeks, here’s an article comparing Win4Lin and VMWare. Even on an 850 Mhz PIII, I still found VMWare slow, so I can’t really imagine paying $300 for it. Win4Lin is adequate for running Quicken and checking web work against windows browsers.
Lottery officials settle Big Game dispute
New Jersey lottery officials said Monday that the person due one-third of the $331 million prize will be revealed Tuesday — and it won’t be anyone from an office pool that claimed to have the winning ticket. They ended up with $2 after a dispute that involved two lawyers and a lottery review.
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Marquez’s lawyer, Donald DiGoia, said the co-workers suspected Marquez had the winning ticket because he called in sick for three days with the flu after the April 16 drawing.
“It’s a bittersweet day, to say the least,” said Anthony H. Guerino, an attorney who represented 10 workers. “They’ve always been a spiritual group. I could see them deflate.”
Tonight (May 1) is the A.R.T. benefit. We’ll be there will bells on, along with some friends. Go! Buy Art! It’s for a good cause!
I’ve been listening to .ethno techno -listen quite a bit for the last week.
Last night we went to the Brooklyn Museum of Art for a reception for the Paris / Brooklyn Exchange. Lots of sexy Frenchmen, plus sexy arty New Yorkers — including Stacy Greene, Oliver Herring (can’t find a good URL!), Peter Krashes, Peter Hendrick, Paul Campbell, the lovely Schroeder Romero women, Ed Winkleman, Laura Parnes, Peter Garfield, and some boy named Patric in a tight red t-shirt who supposedly has shown at D’Amelio Terras.
Speaking of D’Amelio Terras, the show by Damian Ortega earlier this year rocked! Check out “Tortilla Module”.
The Guardian has a tribute to Soft Cell, in honor of the new Greatest Hits CD.
Their record label was called Some Bizarre, and there was something very bizarre about Marc Almond and Dave Ball – a short, skinny imp in bondage gear backed by a bouncer dressed like a louche bin-man.
[In 1981,] Soft Cell release a cover of an old Northern Soul record called Tainted Love, and suddenly everything in Britain goes a bit de Sade. The single goes to Number one. The imp and the bouncer appear on Top of the Pops. Mums and dads look at each other across the sofa and wonder what the hell is going on. Teenagers drop the ‘head’ from ‘headbanging’ and embark on an orgy of sex and drugs.
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It was always OK to laugh at Soft Cell, but not in the same way as one laughed at Dollar. Soft Cell knew they were being laughed at, and their tongues were shoved firmly into their cheeks. Spandau Ballet may have put on make-up, but you always suspected they were a bunch of East End louts masquerading as shop dummies. Duran Duran were sexier, but somewhat idiotic. Depeche Mode were Home Counties squares.
But Marc Almond looked like he’d lived every sleazy, seedy line he composed. His sexuality was an extended national joke. No-one really fancied him (short, skinny, odd hair), but he just looked like he was shagging all the time.
Here’s an mp3 of one of my favorite mixes of Tainted Love. Warning – it’s a 9 minute, 8MB file.
It’s not as big a deal as Perth Amboy (yet), but a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in the Bronx has people visiting it for the healing powers of the tap flowing city water.
Many people using AOL’s Instant Messenger software got a bit of a surprise this morning – some of the “AIM Today” window links for entertainment went to pornography links. A few 17-year-olds in Connecticut have taken credit for the hack.
Frank Moore, artist, co-creator of the Red Ribbon, and member of ACT UP and Visual AIDS, died on Sunday. Here is a page of some of his works.
I will email PlanetOut and ask about the weird sentence:
Moore’s paintings, several of which were featured in New York’s Whitney Biennial in 1995, reportedly mix art and politics, and many focus on themes of bioethics or environmental decay.
Check this out. The weblog of an openly gay cheerleader at the University of Central Arkansas!