Well, this is a first for me. This page played a sound clip when I hit it, a guy saying “This column is brought to you by 3M.”
It’s a good thing I have a fast connection, or I would have resented the extra download time. As it is, it was pretty jarring. If this catches on, it is going to create an entirely new form of annoyance on the Internet.
Yecch.
almost as bad as the midi-background music days, huh?