Wednesday, February 18, 2015


''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)

https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine


 ''Ka-Boom!''



''Not for the weak or the fainthearted'' Oh boy....

SH 21-76 Ranger Handbook (U.S. Army, 2011)
 

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