The Device

This is exactly the kind of near-useless geek-bait that I intend to avoid discussing on my blog. And when a subject has been blogged by Make AND BoingBoing AND Gizmodo AND Engadget it's as dried up and useless as a condom on the sidewalk the day after the Folsom Street Fair. But The Device Patented Process Indicating Apparatus is completely up my alley with its 1924 styling and its customizable science-lab dials. When it comes out (eventually) I'm going to expense one and hook it up to my work computer as a blog dashboard. My future settings:

Analog Dial 1: Number of page views the blog is getting

Analog Dial 2: Time elapsed since last post

Test Tube: Glows more intensely as the magazine work I'm ignoring piles up

Red Light: Activates when Irene the Photo Director gets annoyed at me for slacking

Comments

[Anna]

Analog 1 and 2 sounds the way me as noname-noseen-nosome blogger counts the rhythm. You have a way to
Analog 1: number of comments the blog is getting
Analog 2: time elapsed since last reply to shitty comments.