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| + | In their Tales from the KRYPT newsletter, one member of the KRYPTOS Society (“established in 1981 to promote interest in cryptoanalysis”) offers a summary of the group’s annual awards luncheon, held at Ft. Meade’s “Club Meade,” where prizes were doled out to winners of the annual KRYPTOS Literature Contest (top prize went to: “Fast Identification of Particular Features in a Specific Application Generated by a Particular Algorithm”). And then there’s the Crypto-Mathematics Institute (CMI), which seems kinda like the more exclusive version of KRYPTOS. The club’s manifesto includes six pages on entry-application requirements and the complex process of electing the club’s president, president-elect and executive director. They’ve also got a serious thing for word puzzles, with a fun nine-page test (some of which, they confess, was cribbed from the “Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz”) that includes such brain-busters as “Although it might ‘pain’ you to hear it, HEADACHE cannot follow. What word could follow and why?” Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/nsa-gets-geeky-after-dark-new-docs-show/#ixzz0rXgES0TL | ||
| Voyage to the heart of matter. http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/photos.html | Voyage to the heart of matter. http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/photos.html | ||
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books
slang http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23Larsson-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world
The Fletch Novels http://www.gregorymcdonald.com/mysteries.html
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/alice/accessible/introduction.html
Read Houdini's books via Google Books and Library of Congress. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/29/read-houdinis-books.html
Summer reading: Killer thrillers. Salon recommends four addictive novels to add intrigue and treachery to your beach book list. http://www.salon.com/books/summer_reading/2009/06/02/thrillers/index.html
sci-fi
In their Tales from the KRYPT newsletter, one member of the KRYPTOS Society (“established in 1981 to promote interest in cryptoanalysis”) offers a summary of the group’s annual awards luncheon, held at Ft. Meade’s “Club Meade,” where prizes were doled out to winners of the annual KRYPTOS Literature Contest (top prize went to: “Fast Identification of Particular Features in a Specific Application Generated by a Particular Algorithm”). And then there’s the Crypto-Mathematics Institute (CMI), which seems kinda like the more exclusive version of KRYPTOS. The club’s manifesto includes six pages on entry-application requirements and the complex process of electing the club’s president, president-elect and executive director. They’ve also got a serious thing for word puzzles, with a fun nine-page test (some of which, they confess, was cribbed from the “Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz”) that includes such brain-busters as “Although it might ‘pain’ you to hear it, HEADACHE cannot follow. What word could follow and why?” Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/nsa-gets-geeky-after-dark-new-docs-show/#ixzz0rXgES0TL
Voyage to the heart of matter. http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/photos.html
Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published. Exegesis, Dick's 'personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry' to be issued in two volumes in 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/30/philip-k-dick-visionary-journals-published
Philip K. Dick, an uneasy spy inside 1970s suburbia. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-an-uneasy-spy-inside-1970s-suburbia.html
Philip K. Dick in the land of the John Birch Society. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-in-the-land-of-thejohn-birch-society.html
Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox. The Berkeley boho spent his final years in Orange County, which suited him fine, his daughter says. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24,0,3831068.story?page=1
The Man In The High Castle, By Philip K. Dick http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_mancastle.html
e-books
THE YOUNG MAN`S BOOK OF AMUSEMENT http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/ymboa/subjects.html
NASA Releases First Free E-Book, on History of X-15 Rocket Plane. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/nasa-e-books/#ixzz0eCjo1pS1 http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/ebooks/index.htm http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/current_docs.htm
American X-Vehicles: An Inventory, X-1 to X-45 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntt=jenkins|jenkins+dennis&Ntk=AuthorList|AuthorList&Ntx=mode+matchall|mode+matchall&N=0&Ns=HarvestDate|1
kids
Girls gone Wilder. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/04/girls_gone_wilder/
http://thepowerfactory.com/stories.php
Daniel Pinkwater has put most of the text of his news kids' book The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There online. http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/index.html http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/iggy1.mp3
Poetry
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Emily Dickinson. http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1151&pageno=10
