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Ever wanted to pipe a tail -f through HTTP? I made a quick hack in order to use the excellent rikaichan extension for Firefox in real-time IRC conversations:

I was going to code a File::Tail but a quick look at the RAA pointed me to Florian Frank's file-tail, making the remaining code trivial: