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UPDATE: Now with improved audio.

The Semester 1, 2009 Lightning Talks were held on May 29, 2009, with thirteen talks on such wide-ranging topics as Mac development, game design, internet subculture and pure maths, designed to inform, entertain and win the favour of our panel of "expert" judges, Prof. Christopher Lueg, Mr. David Herbert and Mr. Paris Buttfield-Addison.

The running order of talks is as follows:

1. Jon Manning – Unity
2. Tim Nugent – Warbl Whizzle and Other As-yet Unconfirmed Things
3. Alex Berry – A Topic
4. Michael Ford – Thrust
5. Josh Deprez – Abusing the Banach-Tarski Paradox for Fun and Profit
6. Andrew Bennett – The Grand Wizard
7. Simon Arneaud – Magical Girl Anime as a Means of Self-Induced Brain Damage
8. Thomas Karpiniec – "What Time is it, Eccles?" – An Introduction to Network Time Protocol
9. Matthew D'Orzaio – Why Computers Don't Work
10. John Haight – an ACS Spiel from our sponsors
11. Peter Lyle – OpenTTD Signals
12. Christopher Neugebauer – Cocomo: An Accessible Mac API
13. Nic Wittison – Memetics: A Brief Look into the Theory of Meme

Also in this talk is the drawing of the Semester 1 Points scheme!