Ryan Malloy 63902f095a Add a clickable cuckoo clock and the 90-second talk to the landing page ...

The clock strikes the current hour. Two things in it are mechanism rather than
decoration:

- The pendulum TICKS. steps(2) over 2s = two discrete positions, one per second.
  That is what an escapement does — it chops continuous energy into countable
  ticks. A swept pendulum would contradict the entire site.

- The call is SYNTHESIZED, not sampled. A real cuckoo clock is two wooden pipes
  a minor third apart (6:5, so 700 Hz -> 583 Hz), pushed by a bellows. That's
  twenty lines of Web Audio: triangle pipes with a slight pitch sag as the
  bellows empties, plus a puff of bandpassed noise for the breath. The sound is
  the mechanism rebuilt, and the hero ships zero bytes of audio.

The talk is regenerated for a public audience — the finding, not the
procurement case. Transcript ships with it: audio is the alternative to reading,
never a replacement for the text. preload=none so the 800 KB only downloads for
readers who actually press play.

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