Make a list of canonical new peers, using the
        self.new_peers and the given peers to add

        Return a shuffled list of canonicalized host:port
        strings.

def canonical_new_peer_list( self, peers_to_add ):
        """
        Make a list of canonical new peers, using the
        self.new_peers and the given peers to add

        Return a shuffled list of canonicalized host:port
        strings.
        """
        new_peers = list(set(self.new_peers + peers_to_add))
        random.shuffle( new_peers )
        
        # canonicalize
        tmp = []
        for peer in new_peers:
            tmp.append( self.canonical_peer(peer) )

        new_peers = tmp

        # don't talk to myself
        if self.my_hostport in new_peers:
            new_peers.remove(self.my_hostport)

        return new_peers