How to fix the web with greasemonkey.
This talk was presented by Paul Fenwick ( http://pjf.id.au/blo g ) at linux.conf.au, and won the award of "best lightning talk" for the conference.
A higher resolution copy of the essay can be found at: http://flickr.com/ph otos/pfenwick/369990 413/ . Yes, I really did write this when I was about eight years old.
Wouldn't it be great if Perl built-ins could throw their own exceptions, with proper error hierarchies, and nice-looking error messages?
Wouldn't it be great if these could be enabled with a lexical scope?
With the new autodie pragma, it can.
Rusty Russell and Val Henson demonstrate a version of the classic game "pong" were the paddles are drawn on the screen using infra-red pens (made from modified lip-gloss sticks) which are monitored by a wiimote.
This demonstration was made at the linux.conf.au 2008 Open Day.
