You can buy all kinds of conventional clocks that have hands and numbers for easy reading. Or, like [Fabio Ricci], you could build yourself something a little more esoteric, like this neat shadow ...

Our hacker [glgorman] sent in their submission for the One Hertz Challenge: an analog software clock for Microsoft Windows. I guess we’d have to say that this particular project is a work-in-progress.

Consider this roundup of a dozen of-the-moment hobby ideas a menu to choose from. To account for the fact that a gallon of milk now costs a ...