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I think the Polar Clock is one of the more interesting, and clever, screensavers I’ve come across.  Each ring represents a different scale of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days of the week, day of the month, and month of the year), and the rings sweep around their circumference as time marches on.  Additionally, the rings are slowly, but constantly, shifting colors.

It’s available for both Mac and Windows, and also as a widget and iPhone app.  Find out more here.

Update: while gazing into space looking for inspiration at work, I noticed that the color of each arc is actually dependent upon its sweep, it’s not just a random transition of colors (for example, you’ll notice that as the second “hand” passes the minuted “hand” they’ll take on the same color.  the same happens as it passes each of the other “hands”).

I subscribe to Steep and Cheap’s (like a Woot! for outdoor gear) daily advertisement e-mail, The Daily Dose.  Alongside information about products on sale that day is a paragraph, a pretty much entirely random paragraph, but always entertaining.  Yesterday’s installment:

“I had mono for my first few months in college and didn’t find out until the virus had almost run its course. I was afraid that I was just really lazy. Finding out that my sloth was virus induced was nice. That one experience ruined me for life. Honestly, I keep waiting to find out that I’m at the end of some other mild disease that’s made me not stress out about not having a job or owning a car and house.”

I rarely, if ever, find out any useful product information, or buy anything because of the e-mails (I’ve got Growl notifications to take care of that), but they’re still funny.  So, I guess I’m recommending signing up for The Daily Dose, if you don’t mind one more e-mail in your inbox each day.