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22 Oct
The Internet Archive is Popping Rivets: A Thread
If you're a non-profit serving terabytes of data to millions of people every day and you're NOT being funded by VCs and selling personal information.... then you want to run things as inexpensively and close-to-the-bone as possible. It's how you survive.
This has worked nicely for @internetarchive and it has survived multiple economic storms and changes in the world, expanding and shrinking as it can. It's cliche' to say "But this time is different"

But this time is different
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22 Oct
The Tom Lehrer Songs Mirror at @internetarchive now has everything he's uploaded, as well, as proper titles, and everything's rendered out so can read-preview or view the textfiles.

archive.org/details/tomleh…

Excellent first revision. Needs more help, though.
If anyone wants to collaborate to help add descriptions to these items, I'd like to work with you. Basically, to make descriptions that give context to the works. Many are along the same lines, so it'd be a few paragraphs we punch in for each item. DM me.
I realize not everyone went rushing to the site or was up for viewing everything, just went "oh, that's nice" and moved on. I wanted to state for you that not only has he put up nearly every song from every album he ever did; he also put up unreleased works, private versions....
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22 Oct
OK, we're working on the next generation of MAME emulation at Internet Archive. I have an "Arcade Repair Shop" and these things may or may not work soon. (If there's no screenshot, don't bother, it doesn't work yet).

archive.org/details/arcade…

But if you wanted to watch, go ahead.
Right now there's about 500 of them in the repair shop. Getting things up and running in the IA system is a little intense. Mostly, I have to rip the driver and resolution data from a great site called ARCADE DATABASE, a wonderful hack that scrapes MAME source code to give info.
The site is at adb.arcadeitalia.net/default.php and it's really lovely. Tells you everything you need to know. I write rippers that pull out driver, resolution, screenshots, etc. Right now it's just doing driver checks. (There are 73 unique drivers I'm adding).
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21 Oct
I got a chance to attend the TED Conference one year, because moot was speaking and he could bring one guest for very cheap (for TED prices) and as he said "You're the only person I know who'd want to go and would spend that money". So I went. I annoyed a lot of celebrities.
I am no fan of Sarah Silverman and she was going to do her act, and so I just left the theater to go hang in the lobby and see other things out there, until she was done. The lobby was almost completely empty except a few bored staff members. And a guy sitting in a corner.
So there I am with James Randi, and we talk for about 15-20 minutes about Stuff. The Stuff was mostly about history, capturing facts, etc. He mentioned how he'd passed some dates of his European tour to a researcher and the researcher had proved he'd not been in Europe that year.
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21 Oct
In 2011, after doing documentaries on Bulletin Board Systems and Text Adventures, I had a kickstarter for doing an Arcade Documentary. (And two others). Due primarily to getting the dream job of a lifetime and seeing the potential of what I could do with it, I cancelled them.
I was going for a very warm/emotional aspect of "what are these places, these dark boxes we create to play with machines". I had music lined up and I shot a bunch of footage for it before realizing I couldn't quite do it right.

Here's my footage preview:

vimeo.com/56666304
Now, I went ahead and created The Internet Arcade at the Internet Archive, at archive.org/details/intern… and hundreds of arcade machines became part of the conversation again, as well as making sure we had copies of hundreds of arcade manuals, and other artifacts.
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20 Oct
But Jason, can you mirror it?

Bruh, I've already downloaded it and mirroring it here:

archive.org/details/tomleh…

It'll be done in an hour or two.
You can see our system doing it - shoving in the PDFs and then generating the derivatives, previews, readables, etc. I'll be going through and fixing metadata after they're rendered, and soon we'll have a real lovely Tom Lehrer collection well past "December 31, 2024".
Speaking of Master Lehrer, in 1967, he gave a performance at the height of his skills and stage presence to an adoring and respectful audience, with excellent audio and video, and the tape resurfaced on Youtube and should not be missed:

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