unraring multiple subdirectories

I recently aquired the Futuram season 1-4 collection.
The folder structure was:
Season #
–Show number #
—-multi file rar archive

I really didn’t want to have to uncompress each episode individually, since there are (4 seasons x 12 episodes = 48) lots of shows. Very tedious.
So I set out to write a script to do this for me.

for dir in *; do for filename in *.rar; do unrar x $dir/$filename ../; done; done

May also be usefull:
find -type f -name '*.rar' -execdir unrar x {} \;

Biking Videos

Just the other day I saw a video on YouTube.com.  It was called “Invisile boards”. It’s a clip from a skateboarding movie called “Yeah Right”. it features boarders that ride on what seems to be … nothing… The skateboards have been painted gren and digitally removed.

Anyway this made me think about biking videos. All the videos I’ve seen have pretty standard shots.
I want to produce something that features more visually interesting shots.
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