MetaFilter posts tagged with Clock

How much wood would a wood clock clock?

freshwater_pr0n — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:08:59 -0800

A digital clock made of wood and operated by 70 workers for one continuous 24-hour period. "Even though the workers are trying hard to construct every single minute, they are constantly on the verge of failing."

This, my darling, is the Zybourne Clock.

Optimus Chyme — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:38:57 -0800

"For Dirk McLauren, Wedesnday January 19 2381 has begun very poorly." The Zybourne Clock was to be a hundred-hour long electro-punk-themed RPG made by members of the SA subforum BYOB. After only a few weeks, the project collapsed in drama and failure, leaving only hilarious snippets of text, original "artwork," and level designs. More effort and skill went into parodying The Zybourne Clock than into creating it.

Drag and Tock

ejoey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:50:50 -0800

The Scroll Clock has no time zone option, but it's open source. There's also a gallery.

The 10,000 Year Clock

homunculus — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:55:34 -0800

Photos: The 10,000 Year Clock. [Via]

Antikythera Mechanism revealed

one_bean — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:29:16 -0800

The Antikythera Mechanism has been decoded. Two years ago, it was confirmed that the machine was capable of astronomical calculations. Now it appears there's just one more thing: 3D imaging of the machine made it possible to reconstruct the complete workings, and it turns out it was also capable of tracking the timing of the Olympic games. The findings were reported today in Nature. Previous Apple joke here, an incredibly deep post about it here, and a longer report from the New Yorker.

It's always right - two times a day.

bigmusic — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:41:24 -0800

Fasting may be the remedy for jet lag. By overiding your clock (audio interview 12 min) that prepares your body to eat, it is likely that you can reset your body's clock. Might this be the missing step in training yourself to be an early riser? via

Analog textual clocks

cillit bang — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:22:09 -0800

An analog textual clock - An analog textual clock

Etch-a-Sketch Clock!

tehloki — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 01:05:03 -0800

Etch-a-Sketch Clock!

The world's first Swahili clock

derangedlarid — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:01:42 -0800

The Kamusi project, an online Swahili-English dictionary site, has created the world's first clock that tells Swahili time. Not to be confused with the conceptual clocks of Tibor Kalman, like the Five O'Clock Clock, or Kalman's jumbled time clock tower The Swahili clock reflects an actual conceptual change that takes place for Swahili speakers. In Swahili culture the day starts at sunrise (unlike in the Arab world where the day starts at sunset, and in the Western world where the day starts at midnight). Sunrise in East Africa, being exactly at the Equator, happens every day at approximately 6:00 a.m. And for that reason, 6:00 a.m. is "0:00 morning" Swahili time. So the hands of a watch or clock meant to read Swahili time would always point to a number opposite to the number for the actual time as spoken in English. That is, the Swahili time anywhere in the world (not just East Africa) is delayed by 6 hours. Therefore 7:00 a.m. is "1:00 morning" (saa moja asubuhi) Swahili time; midnight is "6:00 night" (saa sita usiku) Swahili time. 5:00 a.m. is "11:00 early morning" (saa kumi na moja alfajiri) Swahili time. Note also that the Swahili time doesn't use "noon" as the reference as in a.m. (before noon) and p.m. (after noon). The time is spoken using "alfajiri" which is the early morning time during which the morning light has started to shine but the sun has not risen yet; "asubuhi" which is the morning time between sunrise and a little before noon; "mchana" which is from around noon to around 3:00 p.m.; "alasiri" which is from around 3:00 p.m. to sunset; "jioni" which is the entire time period from around 3:00 p.m. up to a little before 7:00 p.m.; and "usiku" which is the entire time period from around 7:00 p.m. to early morning.

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boo_radley — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:38:44 -0800

Behold the Uniqlock. (flash, sfw)

How many abortions o'clock is it?

psmealey — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:33:50 -0800

World Clock SWF application showing the time of day expressed in actual time, the number of species passed into extinction, barrels of oil produced, the temperature of the earth, prison population, world population, and deaths by various causes. Because, y'know, you weren't depressed enough already. Site also offers a number of free games, calculators and applications for your own site.

Time Keeps on Slippin' Into the Future

dhammond — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:50:13 -0800

Polar Clock Time and Date in a nifty roundabout of time.

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

goodnewsfortheinsane — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:28:16 -0800

Always wanted to wake up with Stephen Fry? Now you can, with the - in itself quite interesting - VOCO Clock.

The astronomical clock of Besancon

jonson — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 14:26:20 -0800

The astronomical clock in the French city of Besancon is quite a mechanical marvel. Built in 1860, its inner workings are comprised of more than 30,000 interoperating pieces, driving 37 separate clockface gauges. It is one of the finest intersections between art & mechanics that I've ever come across.

The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

carter — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:25:55 -0800

The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has some excellent online collections related to maritime history and technology, including telescopes, marine chronometers, sundials, and a whole lot more. Some stuff I've been looking at: John Harrison's chronometers (described in Dava Sobel's book Longitude), polyhedral sundials, and pocket globes.

Timeline

srboisvert — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 17:46:23 -0800

Timeline. I found this strangely riveting even though it is just a simple clock [flash].

Brilliant.

XQUZYPHYR — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 09:07:32 -0800

Clocky. An MIT student has designed an alarm clock with built-in wheels and motion sensors. Upon hitting the snooze button, Clocky will roll of your nighttable, bump around your room, and hide, forcing you to have to get up and look for him instead of hitting the button again.

Darkness, sweet darkness

gottabefunky — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 14:49:45 -0800

Clear Sky Clocks. How dark is it going to be tonight?

Time

semmi — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:37:17 -0800

The exact time.

A Clock Compendium

pedantic — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 15:05:07 -0800

Click-clocks.

Rubik's Rubicon

wibbler — Sun, 28 Sep 2003 04:06:00 -0800

I'm starting to think I was only one to ever buy a Rubik's Clock. The hours I spent trying to work it out, the effort I put in, whilst all along there's a simple solution to the infernal thing. While we're on Rubik's games, this man with an audiacious mullet has lots of tips on solving them, and another man can solve the Rubik's Cube in 16 seconds (.mpg file). Impressive, although his social life must have suffered...

little electronic campfires

jester69 — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:33:25 -0800

"They're like little electronic campfires." Nixie tubes were the face of atomic age electronics. Now, even though they are obsolete, there are enough left to have found new life as art with hobbyists. There is something aesthetically pleasing about typeset digital indicators that glow and move fore and aft as the digits change. What better way to watch the hours of your life slip by than on your very own nixie clock?

734:00

four panels — Wed, 16 Apr 2003 11:34:37 -0800

Early Light Emitting Diode watches. From photos to advertisements. Commodore to Tiffany to Ragen Synchronar.

sklero — Fri, 01 Nov 2002 22:19:41 -0800

This handwritten digital clock is the best use of flash I've seen in a long time. Maybe ever.

feelinglistless — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:55:33 -0800

The clock in the terminal at Grand Central has gone. Why do renovated public buildings always seem to lose so much character? Isn't it possible to meld the old with the new?