I love a good clock screensaver for my Mac, I really do. I’m a sucker for them and so, inspired by the excellent Drop Clock which is doing the rounds at the moment, I thought I’d gather together my favourite ways of telling the on-screen time here in one post. Most of these are available as screensavers for the Mac and PC…

Drop Clock This is the new one, a lovely screensaver which shows the numbers being dropped into water all slowly. It’s from Tha Ltd. the guys behind Ffffound! and Uniqlo.com. Yugo Nakamura strikes again!

Fliqlo A long standing favourite of mine, a faithful recreation of a flip clock, so save your money at Habitat and download this screensaver. Check out the rest of the site too…

Polar Clock from Pixelbreaker, a radial representation of the date and time using ever moving coloured bands.

Pong Clock a great clock made by a never-ending game of Pong. Another one which has burned its way into my screen for many weeks. It’s minutes vs hours and strangely minutes seems to lose 60 times more frequently…

Uniqlock is Japanese bonkers from Uniqlo and great for it. Who needs clocks when you can tell the time through the medium of interpretive dance…?

Drawing the time by multimedia god Yugo Nakamura is another example of his great multimedia work. Sadly you can’t download this one, you just have to load up the webpage and watch it go. You could make a webclip for the OSX dashboard though…?

Barcode Clock no nonsense time telling made using Javascript. No scanner required. You can download widgets of this or watch it tick away on the web page

Nixie Clock a lovely retro way to look at the time, using the tube based display which came before LEDs. This is a Mac Dashboard widget, for PC users there seem to be loads of variations out there…

Wallpaper Clock not strictly one clock this, but rather a way to change your desktop wallpaper at intervals to show a series of images. I haven’t tried it yet, but I guess you can visualise the time any way you like. The site tells you how to do it and you can browse different wallpapers…

That’s it, try them for yourself and do please leave a comment if you know of any I’ve missed out. I’m sure to need to change my screensaver again soon…

Download the PicLens plugin for Firefox and take your image searching full screen. A small button gets added to your browser bar and when you click it you get a beautiful fullscreen wall of the images on that page. You can even image search directly from PicLens by typing in the search field. The results get added to the wall as they download, making an ever growing scrolling display which is fun to play with even if it doesn’t return what you’re after…

I just found out about the Web2DNA Art Project, which will analyse any website and create an image of it’s ‘DNA’:

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I just saw this over at Wired. It’s a great explanation of the complexities of the web, and how blogs work for the slightly less technical minded such as myself. It shows just how far your words can go and just how extensive the data machine behind the web really is. It’s presented in a nice way too.

I also checked out Matthew Hurst’s own site, where there are some lovely visualisations of the ‘blogosphere’ making the intangible tangible. Well, in an intangible kind of way…