sunday short stack

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" - William Shakespeare

• After more than 20 years, Spandau Ballet have apologized to Howard Jones for terrorizing him with sandwiches. (via @elinashatkin)
• Six TEDTalks to Make You Reassess What You're Doing with Your Life
• Wired presents How to Behave: New Rules for Highly Evolved Humans.
• Top 5 Funniest Fake Facebook Pages
• Ed Park on the invisible library: "books that exist only between the covers of other books — as descriptions, occasionally as brief excerpts, often simply as titles."
• 1935: Walter Cronkite talks to Miss Gertrude Stein. (via @chutry)
• Andrew Bird's the latest Cemetery Gates episode at Pitchfork TV.
• An Open Letter to Zooey Deschanel's Male Admirers (via @vromans)
• I love these beautiful book cover round-ups.
• Will Arnett stages a dramatic reading of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret on Late Night.