You know you want them.

1950’s Russian space monkey pants are up for bids on eBay.

I love the final bit of the description:

SIZE – to fit small macaque monkey.

Condition – perfect.

Yep, in a few fairly easy steps you can turn your PC into a TiVo – except without all the annoying digital rightsholder management stuff that VHS/betamax made redundant twenty years ago:

http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/cookbook/guide.php

Gawd bless the EFF.