If you’re a nerd and care about what other nerds (especially about tech companies) have to say, Mixergy is a good source of audio interviews. If you’re too lazy to click on each link and look for mp3 and wanna download the “whole site”, here’s how:
1) get sitemap.xml
2) curl each page in the sitemap and search for “.mp3″
3) download the mp3
OR if you are even lazier than that, here’s the script:
#!/bin/sh
>mixergy_files.txt
for i in `curl -s http://mixergy.com/sitemap.xml | grep “<loc>” | sed -e :a -e ’s/<[^>]*>//g;/</N;//ba’ -e “s/\t//g”`
do
echo $i
curl -s $i | grep “\.mp3″ | sed ’s/^.*<a href=”//’ | sed ’s/”.*$//’ >> mixergy_files.txt
done
for i in `cat mixergy_files.txt`
do
wget $i
done
Today, there was a guest priest from Cameroon who gave a talk on what’s going on his home country. Lots of poverty, lack of clean water, hardly any food, dearth of education, etc. No offense to anyone, but I’m sure most of the people have heard the pitch many times. What got me was HOW he was trying to sell it:
We reach out to fellow Catholic brothers and sisters like you. We want you to know that if you don’t help, the Muslims will and people will convert to Islam.
Yeap. That’s what he said.
Now, I don’t know what he was implying.. but I do remember from my high school English class, that you use contrasts to make a point.
Yeap, his god and my God are not same. His god is tiny. Mine is HUGE, including his patience, love, and yes, tolerance.
PS: In case you haven’t found out… Qur’an (Muslim bible) is the Old Testament. They believe in pretty much the same crap as Christians do.
PPS: Gotta admit though.. fear tactics work pretty well because I noticed more people gave during second collection (which was for Cameroon).
See? Even Youtube thinks so
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