sunday short stack

"If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price." - Anonymous

• An old favorite: My Cat Hates You
• An escaped convict has hijacked Crystal Gayle's tour bus.
• Enjoy a 9-year retrospective of BBC News's best reporting on hamsters. Yes, hamsters.
• The Vice guide to hot Swedish librarians
• "Mats obviously wanted absolutely nothing to do with furthering science."
• TV Squad outs the boob tube's biggest drinkers.
• Mmm, Ewan...
• The new -pedia on the block: Howtopedia (via Josh Spear)
• Clive Owen will be the latest Philip Marlowe.
• Yet another article on how the rockers love JG Ballard (via WOTS).
• BaioWatch: For the record, Baio dated Pam Anderson, Nicole Eggert, Heather Locklear, Happy Days/Joanie Loves Chachi costar Erin Moran (who he lost his virginity to), Erika Eleniak, Desperate Housewives star Nicollette Sheridan, Beverly D'Angelo, and Denise Richards.
• xkcd looks at the problem with Wikipedia.
• NPR profiles Southern California's influential Chandler family.
• At Five Chapters, "a five-part story will be published every week, serial-style, beginning on Monday and with a new installment every weekday."
• Does it really turn your crank to come home and gaze soulfully into the Giant Plastic Iris of the Apocalypse?