Synchronizing Fireflies Visualizer

If you watch Fireflies closely, some species will sync up their flashing to eventually blink as a group. Pretty mesmerizing stuff. But how to they do it? So, how do thousands of fireflies pick a leader to follow, a maestro to keep their flashing in time? The answer, the scientists found, is simple: They don’t. …

Clock Experiments by Vasilis

Vasilis had some fun and created these experimental clock interfaces. First up is the “Decimal Clock”: If we had ten hours in a day, instead of 24, and if each of these hours had 100 minutes instead of 60, and if every minute had 100 seconds, our clocks would look like this, and the time …

Day-O 2

Yesterday Shaun Inman released version 2 of the aforementioned Day-O for use with the most recent macOS versions. It’s been five years to the day since I released the original Day-O, a simple menu bar clock replacement with a simple icon and an equally simple fly-out calendar for your Mac. So simple. So clever. So …

FlipClock.js

JavaScript countdown (or up) script with split-flap flip effect. Used it in a recent project and works like a charm. Only downside is that it’s px based, but that can be overcome. Be sure to also click that “Developer API” link on the site, as the main page itself does not hold all needed information …