Mad Skillz

Every now-and-then I come across a project that simply blows me away. Makes me wish I had the skills to create something of a similar nature. Unfortunately, most of these projects involve an advanced knowledge of wood working or a basic knowledge of electronics.

This one falls into the knowledge of electronics category. Maybe one day I will actually read up on and teach myself some of the basics of electronics if just to learn how to create something like this:

Much respect to Angela Yuan (though she might want to work on her website a bit)

Poodwaddle

Yes, it sounds like gibberish, but apparently it is an all-in-one search engine/desktop utility- It has a clock, calendar, notepad, calculator, Google-powered search engine, plus a number of other links, features and functions.

What I really like about Poodwaddle isn’t any of that- it is the special clocks page.

So you click on the clocks link and it takes you to a page with a number of different style clocks, big deal. But if you look closely at the top there is a set of scrolling clocks that track various statistics based on previously recorded data, watch as 18 people a day contract leprosy, or keep an eye out for the 100,000,000 person is born this year (should be happening in about 2 or 3 days), or as other species become extinct (approx. 52 so far today or almost 20,000 this year). It is interesting to watch the various statistics. There are other clocks to checkout, but this one is by far my favorite. Neat little site to just check out though.

What’s the Time?

This is just a neat a neat little web application/screen saver I came across a little while back. I really liked it and figured one day I might write about it here. Well, I don’t really have much to say about it except that it is kind of neat. Just a nicely designed clock on the web. Some times you just need to recognize nice design. So, go check out the Polar Clock. Or you can download it here