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Following the author's own advice I have made a Mac OS X dashboard widget version and made it freely available:

http://experimentgarden.blogspot.com/2009/10/dashboard-text-...

Nice stuff. As mentioned at the bottom it is based off a production version by Biergert & Funk (http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/20/biergert-and-funk-qlocktw...) But it is worth noting that an instructable on how to make a lower cost version can also be found here :http://www.instructables.com/id/A-Word-Clock/

Interesting. The idea looks similar to Art. Lebedev's Verbarius clock, but more low-tech and more pricey.

http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/verbarius/

store: http://store.artlebedev.com/office/gadgets/verbarius/

I wonder if Biergert & Funk heard of Verbarius. Seems like Art. Lebedev was first with the idea?

The code is beautiful: very efficient and understandable. Nice share!

Heh, a while ago I saw something similar done in Flash:

    http://www.simonheys.com/wordclock/

...and wanted to try it myself in HTML/JS:

    http://web.aanet.com.au/Screwtape/Toys/wordclock/index.html

The font-sizing code is a bit of a hack, but it seems to be a reasonable approximation, usually filling the viewport +/- a single line.

Very slick. Time-telling devices are always interesting.

> Please note that this webpage is using HTML5

Does the page uses HTML5 features, or just syntax?

None of the above!

The only thing remotely html5-ey about it is the use of <!doctype html>, which sane people have been using for years. I don't think he's using any features less than a decade old!

IT IS TIME TO GET A WATCH

Just kidding, love the hack, especially the font-face!

This would be amazing if it weren't for the theme switcher and text at the bottom.

You didn't light up the "A": "IT IS [A] QUARTER TO EIGHT".

"IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT" is perfectly cromulent: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22it%20is%20quarter%20to%22

Though i agree, "IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT" is perfectly cromulent. But thats not a justified explanation. Reason: 5,450,000 results for "it is a quarter to" against 226,000 for "IT IS QUARTER TO EIGHT"!!! :)

Yes. If we went that way, then apostrophe-s would denote a plural! (It's probably inevitable, anyhow!)

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