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I'm gonna get more emails for doing this from Very Important Bloggers telling me I really ought to blog one item per entry, they can't link when I empty the notebook like this. Sometimes I just have to blog it so I can get beyond it, today's the day.

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A promotional poster for the 1977 Virgin Records' single God Save The Queen by The Sex Pistols, designed by Jamie Reid, is slated for sale at Christie's, New York on Nov. 28 as part of Punk / Rock, their first auction to center on Punk and New Wave memorabilia. 352 items in all, including Lou Reed, Ramones, The Clash, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Blondie, the Cure, David Bowie and Patti Smith items.

Winning wounded: The NFL's 10 most injured teams. Fox Sports slideshow with fat captions puts the Patriots on top of the list.

Pats play the Indianapolis Colts tonight at 8:15 on NBC. We're making oxtail stew. It smells wonderful. (I saw oxtails in Stop & Shop, cut in two-inch lengths and sold in packages of two, each under a pound, for $4.49 lb. We bought these at a Dominican market on El Vecinos ("The Neighbors") on Broad Street, where Puerta del Sol used to be. Whole tails were in the meat case; we had them cut in two-inch lengths. $3.99 lb.)

Good soldier: The man for the moment: Hillary Clinton makes the case for Barack Obama today in the N.Y. Daily News.

Wherever I travel around New York and the country campaigning for Obama and Biden and other Democratic candidates, I hear people asking "Who are you for?" But the more important question is, "Who is for you?"

This is a twist on her Convention address in which she asked her supporters to back Obama, and to look at their own disappointment at her failed run: "Were you in it for me?"

Guilt-driven spam: If you get an email from monitoring@mediadefender.com with the subject "Your illegal internet activities are being logged"and a zipfile attached -- "a report about the copyrighted movies, music, softwares you downloaded or searched" from a list of torrent sites -- don't open it. It's spam with a trojan attached.

Unfortunately, this is just the sort of email that would snag a teen who'd been furtively downloading tunes to a hidden directory on the family PC.

Hackers pretend to be Media Defender by Dan Morrill at Security Community and other reports document the malware. The email is the second photo on this post at the TrendMicro Malware Blog.

BitTorrent Spam Seeding Trojan Virus at Privacy Digest says the attachment contains the the pesky mytob worm (W32.Mytob@mm) that installs a trojan, and allows outsiders to gain access to your computer.

As I type this, I just received a second variant, with the same zipfile attached. Its subject is "Your internet access is going to get suspended." More on that one: Spam Threatens to Suspend Internet Access at the Malware blog.

Just don't open attachments from strangers, okay?

Nice one:

The Center for Responsive Politics calculates that, by Election Day, $2.4 billion will have been spent on presidential campaigns in the two-year election cycle that began in January 2007, and an additional $2.9 billion will have been spent on 435 House and 35 Senate contests. This $5.3 billion is a billion less than Americans will spend this year on potato chips.-- George Will

Resurgent? CueCat Patent Granted, Finally. Slashdot.

Sci or Fi? Evidence of a Global SuperOrganism. Kevin Kelly, co-founder and first editor of Wired Magazine, among other definitions:

am not the first, nor the only one, to believe a superorganism is emerging from the cloak of wires, radio waves, and electronic nodes wrapping the surface of our planet. No one can dispute the scale or reality of this vast connectivity. What's uncertain is, what is it? Is this global web of computers, servers and trunk lines a mere mechanical circuit, a very large tool, or does it reach a threshold where something, well, different happens?

So far the proposition that a global superorganism is forming along the internet power lines has been treated as a lyrical metaphor at best, and as a mystical illusion at worst. I've decided to treat the idea of a global superorganism seriously, and to see if I could muster a falsifiable claim and evidence for its emergence.

My hypothesis is this: The rapidly increasing sum of all computational devices in the world connected online, including wirelessly, forms a superorganism of computation with its own emergent behaviors. ..

Late-night TV: Nov. 4, 2008 Poll Closing Times nationwide. All times are given as Eastern Standard Time, so the real use of this map is to let you know when polls close and results start becoming available in which states. Since everyone in line -- no matter how long the line -- when polls close gets to vote, this could be just the earliest to expect results to flow.

Short-term saving: Read it Later - Firefox Extension.

This Firefox extension allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest. A commenter below (Chris) summed it up very well: "It's a 'staging area' for bookmarks."

Great for links dumps!

Cherry or oak? How do different wines taste?

What is the relationship between wine varieties and flavor components? This visualization attempts to show the strength of these relationships. I culled descriptive flavor words from over 5,000 published wine tasting notes written between 1995-2000 in a major Australian wine magazine. Written by Carl Tashian for Visualizing the Five Senses, a class at ITP @ NYU.

I can't taste cherry or oak, but I know sharp, sweet, bitter, thick, acidy and thin, and don't care for them.

Sad stories:

The Lost Years & Last Days of David Foster Wallace : Rolling Stone

Harper's makes available Wallace's work for them 1989-2008 from as pdfs.

I've never been a Wallace fan. We can make anybody's pain our pain, and I ration that.

I escaped from a death camp One of the 100 who survived the Treblinka death camp tells his not-pretty Darwinian tale because he has to. It's more about penance than pain.