Circa 1980, as a hobbyist beekeeper with six hives nearby Seattle, they came down with foul-brood. (It never was certain if it was American Foul-brood or European) Duly reported and the county agent came in, sealed them, and carted them away. For an additional fee (which I paid) they would fumigate them and return just the hive bodies, but none of the frames, (some of which would contain the infected brood). Those were burned. I believe the fumigant at the time was phosphine[1]
Lately in advertisements there have been a lot of circular QR codes[1]. Which often apparently present data outside of the alignment patterns. Is that merely an artistic device, or is there some standard permitting information extending beyond the square region?
..and curiously, with the little speaker icon 'on', it produces no audio alarm for me, (firefox 103.0.2). Whereas this[1] one produces a quite notable sound.
These days browsers make sure there's user interaction before audio plays. The other website you linked requires a click to start the timer, therefore meeting that requirement. If Google made this timer muted by default, and you had to click unmute, it would likely work.
Ran into a related bug on a site I was working on the other day and had to learn this browser quirk the hard way.
As more of a story of external impressions, i'm from Seattle and I postdoc'ed in Germany and I got more than my share of the opinion on English from those who could speak English there (damn near 100% at a University). The first problem they had was placing my accent; they couldn't. Finally they concluded that i was some-sort of Canadian (which is pretty accurate). Then they did their own versions of U.S. accents. Almost universally these divided into New York and Texan. Their impression of the states, based on either vacationers or hollywood, confirmed their view that people from the U.S. were either loud with a Texas accent or loud with a New York accent. We decided that it was a natural sampling bias based on the overhearing of the loudness.
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