If we make the alarm sound like a vuvuzela it'll be like the World Cup all over again.

sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -i en1 -l host google.com or host google-analytics.com 2>/dev/null | perl -ne 'if (time - $lasttime > 1) { `say zzzzzzzz`; print "spoke to google at ", scalar localtime, "\n"; } $lasttime = time;'

Excellent - but the "zzzzzz" part comes out like "zee zee zee zee zee zee zee".... at least on osx....

ya. that's the best I could do. I couldn't find a vuvuzela audio file on the internet that wasn't surrounded by a bunch of flaming hoops, else, I would have had it open that URL.

It's like Homer's everything is okay alarm.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F21