What Time Is It Eccles?

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Bob And Ray


Archive.org has become the central archive for several Old Time Radio groups. Over the lasst few weeks hundreds of shows have been posted up. In the next year or so I figure the bulk of many collectors archives will be up online for anyone to listen to or grab.

One newer entry is the amazing collection of about 230 Bob and Ray shows. The humor is dharp, dry and dead on. They skewer the media of their time (radio, tv and the movies) as well as the culture in general. If Matt Neffer, Boy Spot-Welder is not some one you know then warm up your harddrive and grab these shows.

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Timeless

“This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful.”
Edward R. Murrow

Add the computer to that and you got one great quote for today.

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Public Access Hollywood

(found on greylodge) “With this minor complaint aside, Public Access Hollywood is still a fun and interesting look into downtown Hollyweird. From David Hart’s twisted religious puppet show to the Threee Geniuses’ psychotic TV freak out, there’s a lot to discover here for cult film enthusiasts. While there isn’t necessarily an easy way to get the film right now if you don’t live in L.A.”
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YouTube videos ripper/converter Bash script

This is a damn sweet bit of code. It will rip and convert to mpg any piece of YouTube video. Now to make it handle batches of requests:)-

#!/bin/bash
bu=’http://youtube.com/get_video.php?’;mkdir -p ~/YouTube;cd ~/YouTube;read -p ‘YouTube url? ‘ ur;read -p ‘Name? ‘ nv
wget ${ur} -O /tmp/y1;uf=${bu}`grep player2.swf /tmp/y1 | cut -d? -f2 | cut -d\’ -f1`;wget ‘${uf}’ -O /tmp/y.flv
ffmpeg -i /tmp/y.flv -ab 56 -ar 22050 -b 500 -s 320×240 ${nv}.mpg;rm /tmp/y.flv; rm /tmp/y1;rm gmon.out; exit”

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