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Between the sundial, the dawn of digital watches and now cell phones taking a big dent out of the watch business, I'm not sure why you would need a clock in a browser, let alone one requiring an internet connection. Perhaps you sleep with your netbook by your bedside, complete with relaxing pzizz or other ambient noises. Or maybe you have an Ozymandias-style lair complete with dozens of monitors. Either way, here's a little round-up of clocks for your browser (and beyond). Weird to me, maybe useful to you.*

Oh, and here's something about clocks being the devil (pdf link). Much weirder.

Online Clock - the daddy of them all (if clocks are male). Comes in 4 sizes and 5 colors. But here you will find a list of all the other online clocks from Online Clock, including a stopwatch, space clock, military time, etc. If they set out to corner the market in online clocks, these guys are close. There's even a radio alarm clock. Google better get in the act soon or risk losing the Online Clock Wars.

Aptly-named Timeanddate.com provides a boss World Clock, complete with current time in dozens of cities around the world.

Kuku Klok boasts being "Swiss made" but also uses Flash for everything... here's hoping it doesn't crash as it is supposed to be an alarm clock.

Make your own darn clock using Flash and this tutorial. If you're looking for a real challenge, however, try building a meatspace clock. Yeah, coding is much simpler.

But of course there's a javascript clock, silly. Perfect for that fashion blog you were going to start.

Pixelbreaker created a cross-platform clock screensaver called PolarClock for Mac and Windows, plus an OS X Dashboard version and an iPhone app. There's actually a lot of tweaking for such a simple thing, and 28 languages are supported. Of all the screensaver clocks out there, this is my favorite.

Clockspot allows you to track employees online. It's a web-based punchclock. Now excuse me while I punch myself for bringing it up.

For only $3.99 a month (starting price) you can use Snoozester to send you wake up calls and reminder through the day. That'll get you 35 fresh starts a month.

And if you think the internet should turn into reality, help the Ambient Clock make the jump from Google Gadget to real, live plastic clock.


*Come to think of it, numerous science lab accident movie premises are based on the nerd falling asleep in the lab, so maybe these aren't as useless as I thought.