Astorians' Favorite Web Sites · Friday March 17, 2006 by Terry of Astoria
We’ve got some really good ideas for you this month. Everybody loves to download music and movies! Jim Furnish suggests archive.org, an ancient online library of music and video footage. There are 31,345 movies, 30,868 concerts, 77,046 recordings, and 26,817 texts freely available. It’s totally free and legal! Jim loves the Grateful Dead collection which is mostly available in streaming formats, for instance the 1965 show at http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=14656 . I suggest looking for downloadable Bela Fleck and the Flecktones in the music archive. They ROCK!
Judith read The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort in Junior High. Later she was happy to discover the forteantimes.com web site, “The World of Strange Phenomena” She says, “I like the message board. People post their own experiences there.” Fortean Times is about those things you you may only hear about once, or never, in the mainstream news. Things “they” may not want us to know. Things we ought to know.
Just between you and me, I have a personal favorite I’d like to recommend. It’s Called “Shields Up!” and it is a computer security test. Don’t be afraid to check and see how easy a mark you are for hackers and script-kiddies. Go to
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
and test your internet security. The test will “ping” your computer and request a connection on each of your computer’s network ports. You get a nice graphically-enhanced report telling you which ports are closed, which are open, and which don’t seem to exist (those are stealthed) – You want to have all your ports stealthed, which means that to anyone scanning you are invisible.
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