What time is it again? The Inspiration
The Challenge
I'm tired of seeing the same old-same old clock in my top-right-hand corner of my screen. It's time for a new clock. While the clock clock sated my lack of interesting clock for a little while, it simply will do no longer. Your job: make a better, more interesting clock.
The Rules
Make a clock, provided that:

Output is either graphical or directed to STDOUT or equivalent.
You do not use ASCII numbers as the output (don't just print out the time).
It must run continuously until stopped by closing the window or by CTRL-C or equivalent.
It may NOT print out an infinite amount of lines (if using STDOUT).
It must be human-readable, in any way.
It must be accurate to 1/10th of a second to the system clock, and update with any changes to the system clock (so if I change system settings, it will update to my system clock).
Your program cannot exceed 1024 bytes.

Pop-con Objectives
The voters should keep in mind the following:

Creativity should be valued above all.

The better the explanation, the greater the up-votes.
Bash

watch -tn.1 date +%T\|figlet


Yeah, yeah, I know it's not golf (28 bytes!), but I do like the minimalism:



watch is a tool provided by the procps package that repeatedly runs a command every &lt;specified interval of time> and outputs the updated results. (An example of where this is handy: watch -n.1 ls -lh ~/downloads/foo to view the progress of a download.)

The -t flag for watch represents --no-title, as otherwise it would look like this:



The -n 0.1 flag simply means "update every 0.1 seconds."

Then comes the command that we're watching over. First, date +%T prints the date in the desired format (date comes from coreutils):

       %T     time; same as %H:%M:%S


Then this is piped to figlet (unsurprisingly provided by the figlet package), which converts STDIN to ASCII art.

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