First of all, still loving The Daily Puppy blog, and Dudley the puggle is cute enough to break your heart with just one glance.

Mental Floss posted 15 Reasons Why Mister Rogers Was the Best Neighbor Ever. I’m not sure why, but while I was reading it I was on the verge of tears. It’s interesting, and offers a lot of evidence as to how great of a person Mister Rogers was; it wasn’t an act. Worth a look.

Another Mental Floss post – this time about more book lists. Some I had seen before, but they link to the 778 best books of all time, which I have never discovered before. It’s an interesting list, although polling on 46 people for this seems a rather small amount. (Additionally, who are these 46 people? The link to the list of “sumbitters” leads me to believe they are quite an odd assortment. And why are they called Sumbitters?) However, it’s a cool idea for generating a list, and I’d be interested in seeing a similar list gathered in a more credible way.

I’m shyly obsessed with the northern lights, and I love this Neatorama post today with a great picture of the northern lights in Alaska.

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The Modern Library’s list of 100 Greatest English Language Books is pretty well known in the book world, and here’s an interesting NYT page that lists all 100 novels and includes a link to the original New York Times book review, when available.

By far the coolest clock I have ever seen – The Voco Clock talks to you in the morning with charming, clever comments to suggest that you might want to rise at this time. Examples:

I’m so sorry to disturb you sir, but it appears to be morning. Very inconvenient, I agree, sir. I believe it is the rotation of the earth which is to blame, sir.

I’m delighted you have survived another night. May I add my own congratulations to the roar of the world’s approval? Thank you, sir.

You can listen to audio samples on the site as well. The “Good Morning Madam” edition will come out in July.

The Daily Puppy blog brightens my morning every day, and I fell in love with Wilbur, who looks a lot like our beagle did when she was a puppy. (I’m also in love with Lola.)

Beautiful Neatorama post of 10 Divinely Designed Churches.

The Sun Jar is an actual jar of sunshine. It stores sunlight during the day, and then shines during the night. Sort of a grown up “glow in the dark” toy.

Hilarious List of Mundane Dreams from McSweeney’s.

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Book a minute is a funny site that condenses books down to a bare bones (and truly 1 minute!) plot. Very amusing to browse, this Frog and Toad one is especially cute. (There’s also Movie a Minute)

For promotion of the upcoming Simpson’s movie, eleven 7-11 stores are going to be remade into Kwik-E-Marts.

I love Owls, and this newly discovered tiny peruvian owl is just too adorable.

The U of Nebraska is one of the first colleges to actually stick up for its students against the RIAA. It’s about time! I hope more schools do the same.

Fun blog called “Does Today Suck?” – examines historical events and decides whether or not today will suck. Very interesting and fun!

My dad always sends me fun links too. Here’s a site with incredible, old pictures of New York City. And here’s a link to pictures of Strange Statues from around the world – very fun to browse!

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Interesting links for today:

The design for the 2008 Olympic swim center in China. Not only does it look absolutely incredible, it’s environmentally friendly.

A life-size photo of a whale. Super cool, but can be a tad bit slow loading.

Speaking of whales, here is a super cute whale tote-bag I may need to purchase soon.

A very cute craft idea for using cool pages from magazines, or other interesting paper.

A great review on Boing Boing of one of my favorite Bill Bryson books, The Life and Times of the Thunderbold Kid.

The final Harry Potter book will be 784 pages long and printed more environmentally friendly.

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Probably the effect of having someone visiting and staying in our apartment and being busy, but I couldn’t focus on only one book the last few days. I’ve started numerous books, and am reading all of them. I’m not one who likes to read many books at one time, two is my normal max. But now I’m reading The Great Gatsby, What is the What, Clementine, The Man in the Flying Lawn Chair, Life of Pi, and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Out of control.

Today I found McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #22 at Barnes and Noble, and had to take it home with me. I highly recommend this. It’s absolutely beautiful – a leather cover with three books held within by magnets. The titles are:

• From The Notebooks: The Unwritten Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The State of Constraint: New Work from Oulipo
• The Poetry Chains of Dominic Luxford: Poets Choose Poets Till We Have Fifty

Some links for today:

This is way out of my budget, but incredibly awesome: A Giant Sticky Note Table.

A bookstore temporarily arranged by color, creative and stunning. (also see this picture)

The Top 10 “so bad they’re good” lines from bad science fiction novels. (#5 is my personal favorite: You could tell it was a real UFO because there weren’t any wires holding it up and it smelled like outer space.)

Come In Go Away doormat – extremely cool typography.

This color profile is certainly interesting, but I don’t really find it accurate at all.

(most of my links today were found through Neatorama, a truly wonderful blog.)

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A few random links for today:

Here’s a site that chronicles one guy’s mission to call the famous 867-5309 number in every single US area code.

Test your knowledge of the 50 states. As soon as you click on this link, you will be on a web page where you have 10 minutes to type in the names of all 50 US states. I got all but 1, I should have gone letter by letter instead of by region, I think I would have done better.

10 interesting facts about the Oscars.

How to love like a genius.

Creative advertising from around the world. Some of these are really cool ideas.

This is an oldie but a goodie: click on the horse heads.

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