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One of the tracks from Alan Parsons' "The Time Machine" came up in random shuffle. As with most Alan Parsons' albums, this comes with a theme, and not entirely surprisingly, it's time on this one. On my system, that means that the cover is displayed. You can see a copy of it at Wikipedia's entry.
I can figure out some of the time references on the cover, but not all of them.
Going left to right, top to bottom:
So, what are the correct connections? Anyone? Bueller?
> 11. Controls of a vaguely VCRish nature.
These are the astrological symbols for Leo, Sagittarius and Gemini. Astrology can be interpreted as a form of calendar.
> 12. An arch with lines leading off to the left.
Oscilloscope? Frequency = time?
3) Hmmm, could represent a wormhole. Just a guess.
8) The sugar cube might not just be a sugar cube per se - it could be LSD-laced, which would screw with perceptions of time
12) It’s light reflecting off mirrors - seems a bit obscure - could be referring to the speed of light, or things going backwards in general, or a mechanism for timing light
13) Well, it’s a white rabbit - I’d take that to be an Alice in Wonderland reference, and the rabbit was always late, which is a good time reference
14) The glass sphere I would take to be a crystal ball, with which you can see into the future while pronouncing things with a Romany accent
My guesses, anyhow :)
Find a larger image - it helps: http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/c0/b6/1885b220dca0a85e2e593010.L.jpg