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These are my links for November 6th through November 8th:

• Michael Portillo: The friend who still haunts me after more than 30 years | Mail Online – Portillo's made a documentary about a school friend.
• Election Night 11-04-08 – a set on Flickr – Lovely set of historic 'backstage' photos from Barack Obama's photostream
• Elbow Interviewed In A Pub…With Jazz – "we chat about Face from The A-Team (ask your dad) "
• Robert Smith – What becomes of the broken-hearted? – Features, Music – The Independent – "You put on eyeliner and people start screaming at you," he realised. "How strange, and how marvellous." But that's only half of its impact: cleverly, it's a look that screams "Look at me!" then, in the very same glimpse, glowers "Stop looking at me!", simultaneously inviting one's attention and condemning that attention as oppressive and restrictive.
• Standing In Line | Ask Metafilter – A lovely story about queue jumpers in London (via Low)
• little. yellow. different. – An Open Letter to Amy Winehouse – "Amy Winehouse, from one non-religious person to another: you need to find Jesus. That is all."
• Highlights: Newsweek’s Special Election Project | Newsweek Politics: Campaign 2008 | Newsweek.com – Secrets of the 2008 campaign

Just got a nice cheque in the mail.

Tokina AT-X 12-24mm f4 or Asus EEE?

Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You’re my only hope.

• Cool comparison of Digital Wide Zooms (Damn, Rockwell says get the Canon 10-22 if you shoot Canon!)

Was the net slow for you yesterday? My transatlantic connection was completely throttled. It’s a wild guess, but it may have been the 140260 people torrenting the Season 2 premiere of Heroes combined with the 113347 breaking the law for Prison Break S3×02. And that’s just counting the ones listed on eztv.

I remember (cue string quartet) when you’d get pistol whipped for
including a 50 kb attachment and extradited for allowing HTML mail. And I’d be the one dishing out the punishments. Now
I’m hoovering a couple of Gigabytes per day and nobody bats an eyelid, least of all myself.

Are torrents clogging up our pipes? They may be, but that’s probably not the reason why CRIA (Canadian recording industry association) shut down the popular Demonoid tracker today.

I tried but couldn’t find any links to support the theory. I do remember reading reports some years back about bittorrents killing bandwidth.

Took a ferry from Amsterdam CS to Velsen, and a bus to IJmuiden, in search of photographs and fresh fish.

Ended up on IJmuiden beach and at a fair on the promenade, awash with other day trippers.

Everything was ugly. Cheap ware on sale. Burger joints and football jerseys. People.

A seamen’s choir was murdering Irish traditionals (Fiddler’s Green, Black Velvet Band, translated in Dutch.). Hoompapa, hoompapa.

I picked a restaurant, ordered Redfish, ate and watched the other, mainly elderly, people there.

At the table behind me, a man was telling a story about a woman who had lost control and had let everything go. Couldn’t cope with anything. Hadn’t opened her mail, hadn’t paid any bills, or taxes until she was declared bankrupt.

A nasty scale stuck at the back of my throat. I ran for the bus, but the driver wouldn’t stop.

This morning when I tried to go to gmail at mail.google.com/mail, I got a 404 not found page. When I shortened the URL and tried mail.google.com, I got this pixyblog.com homepage. Some kind of freaky DNS problem?

Where’s mah mail, Sergey?

This problem only occurs in Firefox.

This has been bothering me all weekend. I have some MP3’s at work, a full (recently released?) album by a band whose name I can’t recall. I’d never heard of them before, but they may have been around for a while. My colleague passed them on to me. I went through all the Pitchfork reviews and current charts yesterdat, but couldn’t find them. I don’t know anything about the band and haven’t heard the songs enough to say anything about them, but their singer sounds a lot like Tom Jones. I think they’re British, but they might not be. I think their name sounded a little odd or funny, in that it didn’t fit with the music they played. I could wait till tomorrow to find out, but maybe you can tell me right now.Update: Duh. Remembered I can access work mail from home, found the original mail with the download link. The band is called Electric Six . If the Scissor Sisters played rock music, that’s what they sound like.

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