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As long as I'm procrastinating¹, here's some interestings:

• As of this moment, I am the most prolific trader on the "Forecast Exchange" idea market, with 20.9% of the trade volume of the last seven days. (Wikipedia.)
  
• For the "thought" part - on the Timeliness Poll (figure), I observe
  
  1. People disagree more with respect to how late is late than how early is early,
     
  2. People disagree much more with respect to "excessively" late or early than ordinarily, and
     
  3. These effects seem to add. (To wit: four points for late vs. early, nine-and-a-half excessive versus simply.)
  
  There is also a noticeable peaking at round multiples of ten minutes for times over fifteen minutes, suggesting linguistic factors at work.


• Thank you, Mr. Munroe, for reminding me of this track. I'm not a fan of Led Zeppelin, but "Stairway to Heaven" is simply sublime.
  
• Via Play This Thing, an interesting exercise in a flash game: You Have To Burn The Rope. No, really, I'm serious - that's the game.

Okay, I gotta get stuff done. Later!

1. Apropos of very little, a modern proverb, courtesy the ASME lounge: "Procrastination is like masturbation. It's fun while you're doing it, but ultimately you're just screwing yourself." ^