Maybe it's just me, but websites that play sound when you visit them drive me insane. Sound is invasive. You want to opt in to sound. You know you are opting in to visuals when you travel the web, but not sound. It's one of the reasons that I find MySpace so annoying, because everyone has some R. Kelly song loaded up on their profile and the first thing I do when I land on anyone's page is switch it off.

It's even worse at Philly.com today.

If you go to Philly.com today, it will play some ad about the "top job postings." Now, for the thousands of people visiting the site but aren't looking for jobs, this is really off-putting. Worse, I couldn't see any way to turn it off. I couldn't even see which banner ad it was connected to.

The very, very worst part, though, is that if you are browsing between stories, each new page you open will play the ad over. Over and over and over again. If I hadn't been looking for a specific story I would have left the site immediately and looked for news elsewhere.