heya mr. clean. i definitely dig the clock idea. but, i agree with some of the earlier posts in this thread... is it possible to have the clock display the server time, as opposed to your own browser's time? (that way, there's always a constant clock running, that better corresponds with the times posts are listed as being made).
i posted on a thread that questioned this a few weeks ago in the mod questions forum, as well as the script hacking forum (a few people were looking into running server side scripts, in order to come up with a way to display that time)
regardless, a cool idea.