# A simple yet elegant online clock
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 21, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877 "2007-05-21T02:01:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/1 "2007-05-21T02:01:59Z")
I just enjoy watching this thing:
[http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html](http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html)
However, if you know of a cooler one, please post.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/2 "2007-05-21T02:17:59Z")
The [Industrious Clock](http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html).
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### Author:  [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/3 "2007-05-21T02:27:13Z")
From [here](http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/20629/Twisted_List_Five_Trippiest_Online_Clocks.html?detectflash=false&);
There is the [Death Clock](http://www.deathclock.com/),
The [Human Clock](http://yugop.com/ver3/stuff/03/fla.html)
and the [other Human Clock](http://www.humanclock.com/index.php?n=1&jsform=1&BT=870). THis one has photos from all over the US with people holding up a sign showing the time.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/4 "2007-05-21T02:36:01Z")
Someone (the OP) e-mailed me the Polar Clock. I likes it.
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### Author:  [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/5 "2007-05-21T02:40:36Z")
[QUOTE=Rhubarb]
From [here](http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/20629/Twisted_List_Five_Trippiest_Online_Clocks.html?detectflash=false&);
There is the [Death Clock](http://www.deathclock.com/)
[/QUOTE]
Not terribly accurate.
> [@](#):
>
> Your Personal Day of Death is…
>
> Wednesday, July 2, 1997
> Seconds left to live…
> 0
Huh? I died nearly 10 years ago? How come nobody sent me the memo?
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/6 "2007-05-21T02:46:54Z")
[QUOTE=Clothahump]
Huh? I died nearly 10 years ago? How come nobody sent me the memo?
[/QUOTE]
They did, but since you are a zombie, you didn’t read it.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/7 "2007-05-21T02:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=NoClueBoy]
Someone (the OP) e-mailed me the Polar Clock. I likes it.
[/QUOTE]
“Someone” ? Is that all I am to you? 😃
Kiddin’.
The death clock says I have till 2044. But it doesn’t know that I take long walks every day! And I have low blood pressure!
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### Author:  [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/8 "2007-05-21T03:49:16Z")
[TimeLine](http://home.tiscali.nl/annejan/swf/timeline.swf)
[Kinetic](http://forresto.com/flash/clock)
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### Author:  [@SuperNelson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNelson)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/9 "2007-05-21T04:38:56Z")
[Human Clock](http://www.humanclock.com)
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/10 "2007-05-21T06:55:44Z")
I once saw a neat little clock that followed my mouse pointer around. The numbers would break up, follow and go back to formation like a flock of birds. The clock was a feature of some sites, and could also be e-mailed. There was also a Christmas variation of it.
Does anyone know where I can find it?
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### Author:  [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/11 "2007-05-21T10:38:41Z")
[QUOTE=Maastricht]
I once saw a neat little clock that followed my mouse pointer around. The numbers would break up, follow and go back to formation like a flock of birds…Does anyone know where I can find it?
[/QUOTE]
Heh. [I found it myself.](http://www.solinas.com/clock.html). I was afraid, that if I googled “mouse clock” I would just get thousands of Mickey M’s. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2007, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/12 "2007-05-21T11:49:39Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
I just enjoy watching this thing:
[http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html](http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html)
[/QUOTE]
Very nice, but a warning to laptop users - it uses a lot of CPU, in Firefox at least.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/13 "2007-06-15T21:32:22Z")
[The peak oil clock.](http://www.peakoilclock.com/images/poc2.swf)
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### Author:  [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/14 "2007-06-15T21:35:18Z")
I’m going to die in 2015?? Jeezum, I’ll only be 47. Oh well.
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2007, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/15 "2007-06-15T21:35:19Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
I just enjoy watching this thing:
[http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html](http://blog.pixelbreaker.com/upload/polarclockv2/polarclock.html)
However, if you know of a cooler one, please post.
[/QUOTE]
It looks cool, but it makes my MP3’s go all choppy. ☹
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/16 "2007-07-04T21:07:52Z")
World Clock:
[http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf](http://www.poodwaddle.com/worldclock.swf)
I wonder how accurate it is.
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### Author:  [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2007, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/17 "2007-07-04T22:49:43Z")
Holy crap - my death clock says I’m going to live until 96. Pretty cool.
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2007, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/18 "2007-07-04T23:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=gigi]
I’m going to die in 2015?? Jeezum, I’ll only be 47. Oh well.
[/QUOTE]
Hurry, **gigi**! To the Pleasuremobile! Let’s make the best of this leftover time!
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2007, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/19 "2007-07-04T23:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=Usram]
Very nice, but a warning to laptop users - it uses a lot of CPU, in Firefox at least.
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, it had both my processors going at about 35%. Rather unusual for a webpage. 🙂 But it _is_ elegant. There’s just one change I’d make to the Polar Clock: I’d have the text on each ‘hand’ appear outside the hand when the hand started off from zero, and then gradually be covered as the hand lengthened.
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-simple-yet-elegant-online-clock/404877/20 "2007-07-04T23:41:50Z")
[QUOTE=Rhubarb]
There is the [Death Clock](http://www.deathclock.com/),
[/QUOTE]
Hmm. It says I will die on Monday, May 19, 2036.
It would be a Monday, wouldn’t it?
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