DIY #leweb 09 experience

Follow these quick instructions to get the full (well... greatly reduced and not-at-all-like-the-real-thing) LeWeb experience from the comfort of your own desk.
All you need is a printer, an internet connect (implied if reading this post) and a seething resentment of all those who had the cash and/or the planning to get to Le Web this year.
Step 1: Print off the picture above (courtesy of Robert Scoble) as large as you can. (If you work in an architecture office - commandeer that huge one they print out the blue prints on.)
Step 2: Carefully curl the print-out into a tube so that one end of the pic meets the other. (If you have young children this should be well within your skill-set as you would have been making a load of paper decorations over the last week or so.)
Step 3: Put on the Ustream Le Web feed and place the print-out tube over head so that your peripheral vision is filled with the picture. (The more adept may wish to cleverly construct a hat of some sort to support this.)
Optional step: Cut a hole in the picture where the front of stage is and watch the UStream feed through it.
Voilá! You have your very own Le Web experience.
Further to this, depending on your particular preconceptions of Paris - whether xenophobic or francophile - you may want to add other elements to augment the authenticity. E.g. Chew garlic, play some Django Reinhardt, drink a bottle of wine, etc.
Or you could just stop moaning and start planning and saving for next year.
By the way - if anyone actually does this, please send me pictures.


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