Simian Design

Neat concept, poor execution. Why in the world would one design a clock to count seconds in powers of ten when seconds and minutes are tallied up in powers of 60? Seeing a block of 1,000 seconds doesn't help to put the time in any real-world context -- "about 15 minutes" is pretty hard to gauge at a glance, and your mind will constantly be doing mental arithmetic to try and equate this with clock time. A good study of Edward Tufte would solve this. Now, if you want to see an alternative clock that is done right, check out http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/29/bclock.html (Flash required).

I think you're missing the point. In fact, I'm sure you are.

The mondo clock example you gave (of which I prefer the hand-writing version) isn't a real-world context type of clock. They have to SHOW THE NUMBERS they're trying to REPRESENT.

The Mondo clock is more about presenting a clock. I think the dots are about presenting time. I found the slow march of the pixels down the massive block of the day an _interesting view on time_.