h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Like the article, particularly the outdoor tracking skills bit.
But possibly worth a mention is when people make it difficult for you to walk quietly indoors despite your best efforts:

Nightingale Floors are deliberately squeaky ones - see http://www.theotori.com/qna.asp for a description (and sounds of!) such a floor. Terry Pratchett also mentions them in Interesting Times, suggesting an alternative is to climb walls and ceilings (though generally this would not be very practical advice).

Hmm. That page seems to use some sort of embedded object to access the sound file. Do you have a direct URL for the floor.wav it refers to. I expect Internet Explorer would have no problems, but I have a problem with Internet Explorer, I don't run windows.

I am not sure if this will help. The sound of the floor is credited to the kansai website, and after a bit of searching I found the page where the floor sounds are: http://www.kansai.gr.jp/culture/build/archi_e.htm
There are three sound files to choose from - right at the bottom of the page, and this would be where to link to.

Pimms

Besides nightingale floors, there are also nightingale doors, that rattle when touched, resound when lightly knocked upon and positively shriek when opened.