Thursday Links

1. “Continued research into procrastination should not be delayed…” NYTimes article. Research survey. (It’s for academia, so it’s educational and therefore not really a waste of time) Miss Mussel scored in the top 10 to 25%. You?
2. Phil Ford over at Dial M has a lovely post up on finding his dad in a recent biography of Margaret Atwood and then, perhaps more poignantly, finding him elsewhere. A must read.
3. The powers that be are debating whether to fix the Sydney Opera House for $700 million or start over again with a new building. Looks like it might be turning into an IKEA after all.
4. Although they deny a correlation, preferring rather to pin it on “too much success” [?], here are the facts. UBS is leading the pack in subprime losses at $13.5billion. As of Wednesday, they have pulled out of sponsoring the Verbier Festival.
   Coincidence? You decide.

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