CRAIG CONLEY (Prof. Oddfellow) is recognized by Encarta as “America’s most creative and diligent scholar of letters, words and punctuation.” He has been called a “language fanatic” by Page Six gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a “cult hero” by Publisher’s Weekly, a “monk for the modern age” by George Parker, and “a true Renaissance man of the modern era, diving headfirst into comprehensive, open-minded study of realms obscured or merely obscure” by Clint Marsh. An eccentric scholar, Conley’s ideas are often decades ahead of their time. He invented the concept of the “virtual pet” in 1980, fifteen years before the debut of the popular “Tamagotchi” in Japan. His virtual pet, actually a rare flower, still thrives and has reached an incomprehensible size. Conley’s website is OneLetterWords.com.
Temporal anomaly investigator Ewan Nicholas spotted these mismatched clocks in Aberdeen. He determined that the clocks aren't wrong. Rather, "time takes five minutes to travel between them."
Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy shares this photo of a famous clock in the Shandon area of Cork City, known to Corkonians as "The Four Faced Liar" on account of the time being slightly different on each face during the hour.
Temporal anomaly investigator William Murphy notes that he 1867 Tait clock tower in Limerick does not keep time ... but we might prefer to say that the clock is "stuck" on an eternal four thirty and that it is indeed correct twice a day.
Temporal anomaly investigator Nat Hudson shares these mismatched clocks in Malta, designed to confuse evil spirits. Note also that the weathervanes don't match, either.
Temporal anomaly investigator Ambernectar 13 spotted this rift in time in the Bishopsgate district of London. Don't be fooled by the bright sky -- the clock on the right is displaying midnight, not noon.
Temporal anomaly investigator Shelmac spotted this ancient-looking clock that tells the wrong time at a Seattle bus stop (the photo having been snapped at 7:16 p.m.). We like how Shelmac included this photo in a gallery of Thailand/Cambodia imagery, in keeping with the rift in the fabric of space/time.
We tracked a temporal anomaly to the Simmons Bank in Bolivar, Tennessee. It's difficult to make out, but the clock doesn't say 4:20. "An hour that never passed: as if time were broken there and were opening a window: a hole through which to slide us toward the deep" (Pablo Neruda, "Enigma for the Worried").
Temporal anomaly investigatorJulian Kücklich spotted this temporal anomaly in the Elephant and Castle district of London. We applaud Julian's refined sensitivity to perturbations in the fabric of space/time.
With Christmas beginning earlier every year, it's easy to forget that the eighteenth of November occurs on March 24. From the Bombay Sunday Chronicle, 1935.
We tracked down a temporal Anomaly to the Bolivar, Tennessee courthouse. "It's as if time were moving at a different speed in some areas" (Colin Brake, Time-Quake).
The clock above the Christmas shop in Fairhope, Alabama doesn't agree with the time in the world outside of the anomaly. Indeed, "Christmas is timeless. You can forward and backward in time, between dreams and memories" (Chip Davis).