As a fan of flip clocks, I used to strongly affirm that the use of "analog" to describe a flip clock was patently wrong. A flip clock is a digital clock with an electro-mechanical time keeping mechanism. Many people asserted that since the clock did not use what we would call "digital" technology, such a clocks with integrated circuits and LED displays, but instead used mechanical time keeping, it should be called digital analog. Or in this case, an analog flip clock. Now, using this line of thinking, th...