''I have always been a voracious reader of what I call invisible literatures - scientific journals, technical manuals, pharmaceutical company brochures, think-tank internal documents, PR company position papers - part of that universe of published material to which most literate people have scarcely any access but which provides the most potent compost for the imagination'' J.G.Ballard
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
''Lately it occurs to me...
What a long strange trip it has been''
''The aim of this study was to summarize the scientific evidence on the prevalence of psychoactive substance use and on the factors associated with their intake among truck drivers.''
Psychoactive substance use by truck drivers: A systematic review. (2013)
https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3888602
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
''We have the technology.''
''The design of a highly anthropomorphic human scale robot arm for space based operations is described.''
Design of the NASA Robonaut Hand (1999)
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20000097045
''Have space suit -Will travel.''
''DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCES DERIVED IN DESIGNING SPACE SUITS FOR HUMAN HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE FLIGHTS ARE REPORTED. THE PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIUM IN WHICH THE FLIGHTS TAKE PLACE, THE PHYSICAL FLIGHT FACTORS AND THEIR INFLUENCE UPON THE HUMAN BODY ARE DISCUSSED. THE BASES OF THE THEORY AND METHOD OF DESIGNING SPACE SUIT SYSTEMS AND PARTS ARE BRIEFLY PRESENTED. THE BOOK IS DESIGNED FOR SPECIALISTS WORKING IN THE FIELD OF DESIGN, PRODUCTION, AND TESTING OF EQUIPMENT FOR PILOTS AND COSMONAUTS. IT IS ALSO USEFUL TO THE ENGINEERING-TECHNICAL PERSONNEL WORKING ON THE CREATION OF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS FOR THE CREWS OF MODERN SPACECRAFT''
HIGH ALTITUDE AND SPACE SUITS STUDIES (Alekseyev,S.M. ; Umanskiy, S.P. 1973)
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19740007684
''Got a light?''
TM 3-1040-204-14 Flamethrower, Portable, M2A1-7 (1973)
https://archive.org/details/milmanual-tm-3-1040-204-14-flamethrower-portable-m2a1-7
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
''Hello! I see you!''
BSTJ 50: 2 The Picturephone System:The Station:2C Video Telephone Station Set (1971)
https://archive.org/details/bstj50-2-271
Monday, February 23, 2015
''Phreak out.''
The Evolution and Special Features of Bell System Telephone Equipment Buildings (BSTJ 58: 2 1979)
https://archive.org/details/bstj58-2-427
''Auto De Fense''
A look at different types of anti protest weapons (including electrical, chemical, projectiles, sound frequency, etc.) and how to protect yourself from them.
Excited Delirium - A protestor's guide to 'less-lethal' weaponry (2010's)
https://archive.org/details/ExcitedDelirium
Sunday, February 22, 2015
''Hide in plain sight''
''Manual prepared for the Industrial camouflage program at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York''
Industrial Camouflage Manual (Pratt Institute Camouflage Laboratory, 1942)
https://archive.org/details/industrialcamouf00wittrich
Saturday, February 21, 2015
''... (T)o contain unknown lunar organisms that might endanger life on earth."
The Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) became operational in 1969, its objective was to lower the risk of ''back contamination'' by astronauts and material brought from the Moon. NASA had not planned for that eventuality when the Apollo program was implemented, so the LRL was designed and built (in less than three years) only after public concerns about the risk of alien pathogens.
Today it is believed that if such contamination had been present the LRL would had been unable to contain it, mainly due to the procedures used to transport and handle its subjects and specimens. Oh well.
Lunar Receiving Laboratory Project History (2004)
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_20040200959
Thursday, February 19, 2015
''This is a crime against the state''
''The history of the electric guitar illustrates that a technology can neither be separated from the cultural values prevalent at the time of its creation nor those cultural values later ascribed to it.''
From tinkerers to gods :The electric guitar and the social construction of gender (Monique Bourdage, 2007)
https://archive.org/details/BourdageMonique
''More human than human.''
Mixed Reality and Human-Robot interaction (2009)
https://archive.org/details/Mixed_Reality_and_Human-Robot_Interaction
"Do not fold, spindle or mutilate"
''The history of computers - from the discovery of the abacus, through Jacquard and his use of punched cards in weaving, to the latest developments and the enormous potential for the future.''
Computers - The Machines We Think With (D.S. Halacy, 1969)
https://archive.org/details/computersmachine00dsha
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
''Maalintii Rangers''
After Action Report :The U.S. Army In Somalia,1992-1994 (2003)
https://archive.org/details/UnitedStatesForcesSomalia
''Ad astra, per aspera''
Studies on Lunar surface material from the Sea of Fertility- Soviet Lunik 16 lunar probe (1974)
https://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19750003742
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
''Taking Tiger Mountain..."
Secret lectures delivered at the Voroshilov Soviet General Staff Academy (1973-75) dealing with military doctrine, strategy, operational art, and tactics.
Issues of Soviet Military Strategy- (National Defense Univ. Press 1989-92)
Volume 1- https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol100ghul
Volume 2- https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol200ghul
Volume 3- https://archive.org/details/voroshilovvol300ghul
''I will not be pushed,
filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered!''
''What are the dynamics behind youth subcultures such
as punk, hippie, or hip-hop cultures? How does the global dynamics of
these subcultures relate to the individual's search for a personal
identity? We propose a simple dynamical model to address these questions
and find that only a few assumptions of the individual's behaviour are
necessary to regenerate known features of youth culture.''
Modelling the dynamics of youth subcultures (Peter Holme, 2014)
Sunday, February 15, 2015
''Now with 100 Kb RAM!''
Compute! was an early personal computer magazine that covered most platforms including Commodore, Apple, Atari, etc...
Compute! Magazine (1979-94)
''Ka-Boom!''
''Not for the weak or the fainthearted'' Oh boy....
https://archive.org/details/RangerHandbook
''À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu''
''..(A) quaterly newsletter dedicated to the academic study of the type of music labelled ''punk''.''
Punk Research Newsletter (1984-85)
https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.1No.1may1984
https://archive.org/details/PunkResearchVol.2No.1march1985
''Four-one-one, may we help you?''
''...(C)omputers, BBS's, the telephone company, arcade games, radio equipment, general electronic equipment, cable and other utility companies and anything/everything nobody else wants to talk about...''
Blacklisted! 411 Magazine
https://archive.org/details/blacklisted411
Saturday, February 14, 2015
''No wonder they called it ''The Nazi Party''...''
''Pervitin, a stimulant commonly known as speed today, was the German army's -- the Wehrmacht's -- wonder drug.''
Hitler's Drugged Soldiers (Andreas Ulrich, Spiegel 2005)
http://www.spiegel.de/international/the-nazi-death-machine-hitler-s-drugged-soldiers-a-354606.html
''This is the way the world ends
Not with a whimper but a bang.''
''If we create higher temperature and density in a limited region of the solar interior, we may be able to produce self-supporting detonation thermonuclear reactions that spread to the full solar volume (...) This explosion would annihilate the Earth and the Solar System, as we know them today.''
Artificial Explosion of the Sun- Criterion for Solar Detonation
https://archive.org/details/ArtificialExplosionOfSun.Ab-criterionForSolarDetonation
Friday, February 13, 2015
''Unidentified- flying- object."
An internal report from Project Blue Book, the USAF program that dealt with the UFO ''problem''.
Special Report No. 14 was an statistical analysis of U.F.O. report cases gathered from 1947 to 1954, some 3,200. It represents the largest such study ever undertaken. Cases were divided into three categories-"knowns", "unknowns", and "insufficient information."
Blue Book was cancelled in 1968.
Project Blue Book Special Report #14 (USAF Air Technical Intelligence Center, 1954)
https://archive.org/details/ProjectBlueBookSpecialReport14
Thursday, February 12, 2015
'"Hünde, wollt ihr euwig leben?"
PAM 20-1 A Guide To Army Philosophy (U.S. Army, 1958)
https://archive.org/details/PAM20-1
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
''We procure means of seeing objects afar off, as in the heaven and remote places; and represent things near as afar off, and things afar off as near; making feigned distances.''
Radar Astronomy (Evans & Hagfors, 1968)
https://archive.org/details/RadarAstronomy
Monday, February 9, 2015
''The Commandos Strike at Dawn''
https://archive.org/details/FM3-55x93
''The Enemy Below''
Anti-submarine Warfare: A strategy primer (U.S. Navy 1988)
https://archive.org/details/antisubmarinewar00bree
Anti-submarine Warfare: A strategy primer (U.S. Navy 1988)
https://archive.org/details/antisubmarinewar00bree
Sunday, February 8, 2015
''A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye.''
Paranthropology: Journal of Anthropological Approaches to the Paranormal (2012-2014)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Jack+Hunter+%28Editor%29%22
''2345 3487 3454 3455 4867 3465 4965 3452....''
Published by the N.S.A. from 1974 to 1997 - "A mix of technical, expository, philosophical, futuristic, argumentative and historical articles - with a light touch here and there - there's always an article or two to engage the reader."
Cryptolog Technical Journal (N.S.A. 1974-1997 136 issues)
https://archive.org/details/nsacryptolog
Published by the N.S.A. from 1974 to 1997 - "A mix of technical, expository, philosophical, futuristic, argumentative and historical articles - with a light touch here and there - there's always an article or two to engage the reader."
Cryptolog Technical Journal (N.S.A. 1974-1997 136 issues)
https://archive.org/details/nsacryptolog
Saturday, February 7, 2015
''I've got a silver machine / It flies side ways thru' time...''
Music Cognition as Mental Time Travel. (2013)
https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3776194
''Be the First Kid in Your Block to Rule the World!''
''This study was made to present a method for the conceptual design of tactical missiles.''
Tactical missile conceptual design (1980)
https://archive.org/details/tacticalmissilec00redm
Friday, February 6, 2015
''Tonight I'm gonna party like it's nineteen eighty-four''
''Variant, a radical art magazine''
Variant Magazine No. 1-16 (1984-1994)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Variant+magazine%22
"Been there, done that...''
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan dossier (N.S.A.1998)
https://archive.org/details/pdfy-xaNd1zi8Pg020EbZ
Thursday, February 5, 2015
''No comment.''
Hearings before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy (1964)
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Investigation%20of%20the%20assassination%20of%20President%20John%20F.%20Kennedy
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
''Same tune, different song.''
Operation Northwoods (U.S. Defense Department,1962)
https://archive.org/details/OperationNorthwoods
''It is possible to create an incident which will demonstrate convincingly that a Cuban aircraft has attacked and shot down a chartered civil airliner en route from the United States...''
https://archive.org/details/OperationNorthwoods
Sunday, February 1, 2015
''Suspicion breeds confidence''
CIA Activities within the United States (U.S. Senate Church Committee,1975)
https://archive.org/details/reporttopresiden01unit
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