While maybe gifsockets would work (I haven’t tried that before…), there is no network traffic while I am looking at the image other than the initial image load. I am also seeing it it jump from 41 to 42 again. A Reload took it down to 39.
It appears to be just a script that generates 60 frames of animation and sends them to the user. This could probably be done in any language.
Here is how it is done in php:
http://seanja.com/secret/countdown/
