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IBM and the Holocaust
by Edwin Black
Published 30 Jun 2001

Korherr openly denigrated Hofmann’s ideas as unnecessary and duplicative.80 Shortly after the Wannsee Conference, Korherr wrote to a colleague, “I would like to mention that the understandable lack of statistical expertise at the Race and Settlement Office, coupled with their urgent wish for a large statistics office with a Hollerith system and for an SS population card file, made [recent] negotiations extraordinarily difficult. For the statistician, the best proof of an amateur is when someone wants to begin—and end—his statistical work with a card file . . . Since Reichsführer [Himmler] appointed me the sole liaison for Reich statistics . . . I see Gruppenführer Hofmann’s behavior as deliberately . . . undermining my position.”81 Korherr snidely added, “The person in charge at the Reich Statistical Office was astonished at Gruppenführer Hofmann’s plans and asked: then why did Reichsführer [Himmler] hire me and Dr.

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Although a network of Jewish and non-sectarian anti-Nazi leagues and bodies struggled to organize comprehensive lists of companies doing business with Germany, from importers of German toys and shoes to sellers of German porcelain and pharmaceuticals, yet IBM and Watson were not identified. Neither the company nor its president even appeared in any of thousands of hectic phone book entries or handwritten index card files of the leading national and regional boycott bodies. Anti-Nazi agitators just didn’t understand the dynamics of corporate multinationalism.64 Moreover, IBM was not importing German merchandise, it was exporting machinery. In fact, even exports dwindled as soon as the new plant in Berlin was erected, leaving less of a paper trail.

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Once in Vienna, he found an enormous punch card operation working around the clock. The Hollerith program superseded every other aspect of German preparations.19 “For weeks in advance [of the Anschluss],” remembered Eichmann, “every able-bodied man they could find was put to work in three shifts: writing file cards for an enormous circular card file, several yards in diameter, which a man sitting on a piano stool could operate and find any card he wanted thanks to a system of punch holes. All information important for Austria was entered on these cards. The data was taken from annual reports, handbooks, the newspapers of all the political parties, membership files; in short, everything imaginable. . . .

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
by Gabriel Wyner
Published 4 Aug 2014

Your job is to tell your SRS whether or not you remember a particular card, and your SRS’s job is to build a daily, customized to-do list based upon your input. This list is designed to help you memorize as efficiently as possible, so that you can spend your time learning instead of micromanaging. A paper SRS accomplishes the same feat using a flash card file box, a carefully designed schedule, and a few simple instructions. It’s basically a simple board game. The game contains seven levels, which correspond to seven labeled sections in your file box (i.e., level 1, level 2, etc.). Every card starts on level 1, and advances to the next level whenever you remember it.

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Scale up or down as needed to fit your schedule and tolerance for LCD screens. If you prefer working with your hands, you can create an SRS with physical flash cards. Named after an Austrian science journalist writing in the 1970s, the Leitner box is just a particularly clever way to use a flash card file box, some dividers, and a calendar. In the original version, your box is divided into four sections. You review section 1 every day, section 2 every two days, section 3 every three days, and so on. When you successfully remember a card—gato = [cute picture of a cat]—it moves into the next section.

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You’ve also downloaded and installed my demo deck, so your main job involves finding information and recordings, putting them in the right boxes, and clicking the Add Flash Cards button. If you’ve chosen a Leitner box, you’ve read Appendix 3, gone out to your local office supply store, and purchased your materials. You have an index card file-box full of dividers, a stack of blank index cards, some pencils, and a calendar in front of you (today is day 1!). You also remember my earlier caveat: Since paper flash cards can’t talk, you’re going to take extra care to learn a phonetic alphabet and to listen to recordings of example words when you write your flash cards.

The Difference Engine
by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
Published 31 Aug 1990

"Of course, 'twould be worth a fellow's job, if he were caught at it." "Do you like your work, Mr. Tobias?" "Pay's not much. Gas-light ruins your eyes. But it has advantages." He shrugged again, and pushed his way through another door, into a clattering anteroom, three of its walls lined with shelves and card-files, the fourth with fretted glass. Behind the glass loomed a vast hall of towering Engines -- so many that at first Mallory thought the walls must surely be lined with mirrors, like a fancy ballroom. It was like some carnival deception, meant to trick the eye -- the giant identical Engines, clock-like constructions of intricately interlocking brass, big as rail-cars set on end, each on its foot-thick padded blocks.

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Many's the poor innocent bastard ruined like that . . . " The tick and sizzle of the monster clockwork muffled his words. Two men, well-dressed and quiet, were engrossed in their work in the library. They bent together over a large square album of color-plates. "Pray have a seat," Tobias said. Mallory seated himself at a library table, in a maple swivel-chair mounted on rubber wheels, while Tobias selected a card-file. He sat opposite Mallory and leafed through the cards, pausing to dab a gloved finger in a small container of beeswax. He retrieved a pair of cards. "Were these your requests, sir?" "I filled out paper questionnaires. But you've put all that in Engine-form, eh?" "Well, QC took the requests," Tobias said, squinting.

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While he found the latter infinitely more compelling than the former, it was Q C he needed today, most particularly in the person of Andrew Wakefield, the departmental Under-Secretary. The clerks of Q C were individually walled into neatly cramped cells of rolled-steel, asbestos, and veneer. Wakefield presided over them from a grander version of the same scheme, his sparse sandy head framed by the brass-fitted drawers of a multitude of card-files. He glanced up as Oliphant approached, prominent front teeth displayed against his lower lip. "Mr. Oliphant, sir," he said. "A pleasure as ever. Pardon me." He shuffled a number of punch-cards into a sturdy blue envelope lined with tissue-paper, and meticulously wound the little scarlet string about the two halves of the patent-clasp.

The Complete Android Guide: 3Ones
by Kevin Purdy
Published 15 Apr 2011

From browser, head to google.com/contacts, log into the account you set up with your phone, then get to work searching, editing, and consolidating duplicate contacts. The ins and outs are, once again, covered in our chapter on Making Calls, Sending Texts, and Managing Contacts. It Takes Forever to Get at My Music, Pictures, and SD Card Files What you want to happen when you connect your Android to your computer's USB Many phone manufacturers, HTC and Motorola included, have created Windows and Mac software apps to handle the transfer and backup of SD card files for their phones. Some, like HTC, have even taken the step of having your phone ask you what you want to use your USB cable connection for--charging, syncing media, straight-up storage access, or data connection tethering.

Culture Shock! Costa Rica 30th Anniversary Edition
by Claire Wallerstein
Published 1 Mar 2011

Bookshop owner Darren Mora said, “People don’t get into the habit of reading because books are too expensive for many people. In any case, most bookshops only stock text books and literary classics.” Libraries are not exactly user-friendly either. You can’t just browse among the books, but have to fiddle through oldfashioned card files, fill in a form for each book and ask the librarian—who will probably demand your cédula (identity card) or passport—to bring the books to you. You may not remove the books from the library and can only use them for a few hours. “How are you going to read a novel in an environment like that?” asked Mora.

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Website: www.flysansa.com Nature Air Tel: (506) 2299-6000 Email: natureair@centralamerica.com Website: www.natureair.com CHARTER AIRLINES AND HELICOPTERS       TACSA (from Tobías Bolaños Airport) Tel: (506) 2232-1438 / 2232-1317 Aviones Taxi Aereo (from Juan Santamaria Airport) Tel: (506) 2431-0160 / 2431-0293 Paradise Air Tel: (506) 2231-0938 / 2231-8972 / 2231-8973 Helicópteros del Norte Tel: (506) 2231-7210 Helicópteros Internacionales Tel: (506) 2231-6867; fax: (506) 2231-5885 Heli-Tours Tropical Tel: (506) 2220-3940 For more information on charter flights, look up www.airchartercentralamerica.com 290 FURTHER READING Many old books and theses about local culture are out of print and only available in libraries, which are always worth a visit. However, remember that in Tico libraries (except some university libraries) you cannot just browse among the shelves—you must look for what you want in the card files, fill out a form and give it to the librarian, who will find the publication. You cannot take books out of the library. GENERAL Amcham’s Guide to Investing and Doing Business in Costa Rica. San José, Costa Rica: AmCham.  Detailed run-down of the business and investment climate. The New Key to Costa Rica.

Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
Published 15 Dec 1990

The English arrive on the third and find nobody there. Maybe they also wait a week, and nobody shows. The two grand masters have missed each other.” “Sublime,” Belbo said. “That’s what happened. But why is it the German Rosicrucians who go public, and not the English?” I asked for another day, searched my card files, and came back to the office glowing with pride. I had found a clue, an almost invisible clue, but that’s how Sam Spade works. Nothing is trivial or insignificant to his eagle eye. Toward 1584, John Dee, mage and cabalist, astrologer to the queen of England, was assigned to study the reform of the Julian calendar.

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Indeed, he led us to believe that Abulafia had supplied him with the connections. The idea that Bacon was the author of the Rosicrucian manifestoes he had already come upon somewhere or other. But one thing in particular struck me: that Bacon was Viscount St. Albans. It buzzed in my head; it had something to do with my old thesis. I spent that night digging in my card file. “Gentlemen,” I said to my accomplices with a certain solemnity the next morning, “we don’t have to invent connections. They exist. When, in 1164, Saint Bernard launched the idea of a council at Troyes to legitimize the Templars, among those charged to organize everything was the prior of Saint Albans.

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“What’ll I do, then?” “You’ll take part before and afterward. Afterward, if it’s a boy, you’ll teach him, guide him, give him a fine old Oedipus complex in the usual way, with a smile you’ll play out the ritual parricide when the time comes—no fuss—and at some point you’ll show him your squalid office, the card files, the page proofs of the wonderful adventure of metals, and you’ll say to him, ‘My son, one day all this will be yours.’ “ “And if it’s a girl?” “You’ll say to her, ‘My daughter, one day all this will be your no-good husband’s.’ “ “And what do I do before?” “During labor, between one wave of pain and the next, you have to count, because as the interval grows shorter, the moment approaches.

The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent
by Vivek Wadhwa
Published 1 Oct 2012

The next president, or even Obama himself, could reverse these orders without requiring approval from any other government body. Furthermore, it remains unclear whether H-4 spouses will only be allowed to work after the sixth year of the H-1B, and if the H-1B is entitled to extensions beyond the sixth year based on a green card filing. “This would be too limited. H-4 spouses should be allowed to work much earlier—from day one,” says immigration attorney Cyrus B. Mehta. To be clear, I credit Obama and other legislators on both sides of the aisle for discussing and pushing forward legislation to improve the lot of skilled immigrants and allow more of them to stay here and contribute to America.

Cataloging the World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age
by Alex Wright
Published 6 Jun 2014

Yet despite these analog limitations, he 14 I ntrod u ction envisioned a global network of interconnected institutions that would alter the flow of information around the world, and in the process lead to profound social, cultural, and political transformations. By today’s standards, Otlet’s proto-Web was a clumsy affair, relying on a patchwork system of index cards, file cabinets, telegraph machines, and a small army of clerical workers. But in his writing he looked far ahead to a future in which networks circled the globe and data could travel freely. Moreover, he imagined a wide range of ­expression taking shape across the network: distributed encyclopedias, virtual classrooms, three-dimensional information spaces, social networks, and other forms of knowledge that anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today’s Web.

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Still, van den Heuvel suggests that Otlet’s approach to classification as a documentary language anticipates Nelson’s concept of hypertext, insofar as it encompasses nonsequential and multidimensional relationships21 or, as Nelson put it, “text that branches and allows choices.”22 263 C ATA L O G I N G T H E WO R L D Nelson maintains that he spent his first five years thinking about interactive text systems in conceptual isolation, with no idea that others had developed similar concepts. Nelson’s earliest proto-­ hypertext experiments bore a striking resemblance to Conrad Gessner’s: using card files, notebooks, scissors, and paste. Over time he hoped to create “the dream file” (emphasis Nelson’s), a sophisticated writing and filing system designed for an author, “holding everything he wanted in just the complicated way he wanted it held, and handling notes and manuscripts in as subtle and complex ways as he wanted them handled.”23 In addition to thinking deeply about the problems of managing large collections of text, Nelson also envisioned how other forms of expression might take shape over time: “hypergrams,” “hypermaps,” and “hyperfilms” or “branching movies.”

Mapmatics: How We Navigate the World Through Numbers
by Paulina Rowinska
Published 5 Jun 2024

In other words, the curve prescribes the order in which the clients should be visited. Instead of a supercomputer, the system designed at Georgia Tech relied on an Atlanta street map with a clear coordinate grid, a table relating the coordinates to their position along the curve, and two Rolodex card files.* To create the table, the researchers converted each pair of coordinates (horizontal and vertical) from the map into a single number representing its relative distance from the beginning of the curve, a value which uniquely identified a delivery location. Both Rolodex files contained cards corresponding to current clients: one sorted alphabetically by clients’ names and one sorted numerically by their location along the space-filling curve.

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Gennadi ref1 ‘P’’ (Lehmann) ref1 Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, USA ref1 parallels see latitudes (parallels) Patterson, Simon ref1n Perelman, Grigori ref1 Perez, Juan ref1 Peru ref1 Petchenik, Barbara Bartz ref1 Peters, Arno ref1 Peutinger Map ref1 Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Newton) ref1 physiographic maps ref1 Pixar ref1, ref2 place cells ref1 plate tectonics ref1, ref2, ref3 Poincaré conjecture ref1 Poland, gerrymandering in ref1 politics see geopolitics; gerrymandering Polo, Marco ref1, ref2 Polsby–Popper test ref1 Porter, Irwin S. ref1 Prime Meridian ref1, ref2n Principia Philosophiae (Descartes) ref1n probabilities, subjective ref1 probability theory ref1n Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society ref1 projections azimuthal ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 education about ref1 Gall–Peters ref1, ref2 main types ref1, ref2 Mercator’s see Mercator projection orthographic ref1 political uses ref1 and qibla ref1, ref2 retroazimuthal ref1, ref2 Robinson’s ref1 and worldviews ref1, ref2 proof by contradiction ref1 Pythagoras ref1n qibla ref1, ref2, ref3 quadrants ref1 quaternions ref1n Rahim, Mohammed Kamil Abdul ref1, ref2 RAND Corporation ref1 Rand McNally ref1, ref2 Randel, John ref1 random seed and grow algorithm ref1 Rasmussen, Lars and Jens Eilstrup ref1 ReCom algorithm ref1 RenderMan software ref1 retroazimuthal projections ref1, ref2 rhumb lines ref1, ref2, ref3 Richardson, Lewis Fry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 Rickey, V. Federick ref1, ref2 Robinson, Arthur H. ref1, ref2 Robinson, Julia ref1 Rolodex card files ref1n Roman Empire ref1 Rossmo, Kim ref1, ref2 Rossmo’s formula ref1 route planning see travelling salesperson problem (TSP) Royal Danish Geodetic Institute ref1 Russia’s Alaskan territory ref1 Rutherfurd, John ref1 San Francisco transit map ref1 San Juan County, Utah, USA ref1 Sardinia ref1 satellite radar altimeters ref1 scale Baltimore phenomenon ref1 and borders ref1 changing ref1 defining ref1 and details included ref1, ref2, ref3 and measuring lines see coastline paradox; lines, measuring representation ref1 Schmidt, Christopher ref1 Schmitt, Otto ref1 school atlases ref1, ref2 school districts ref1 Science ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Scott, Natacha ref1 Seabed 2030 initiative ref1, ref2 Seaman, Valentine ref1 Search and Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) ref1 search effectiveness ref1 secants ref1, ref2 segregation ref1 Segregation Contribution Index (SCI) ref1 Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) ref1 seismology and seismic waves causes ref1 and Earth’s composition ref1, ref2 epicentre, determining ref1, ref2 Koelemeijer’s work ref1 Lehmann’s work ref1, ref2 on Mars ref1 measuring ref1, ref2, ref3 nuclear explosions ref1 P waves and S waves ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 revealing Earth’s inner structure ref1, ref2, ref3 seismic tomography ref1, ref2 Snell’s Law ref1, ref2 seismometers/seismographs ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 seismoscopes ref1 self-similarity ref1, ref2, ref3 sexism ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4 sextants ref1 shape, Earth’s ref1, ref2, ref3n, ref4, ref5, ref6n, ref7 shortest distance between two points ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; see also travelling salesperson problem (TSP) Sicily ref1 Simmons Jr., Bobby Ray (B.o.B.) ref1 simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) ref1 sines ref1n SIR models ref1, ref2 Smith, Alvy Ray ref1 Snell, Willebrord van Royen ref1, ref2n Snell’s Law ref1n, ref2, ref3, ref4 Snow, John ref1, ref2, ref3 solstices ref1, ref2 ‘Solutio problematis ad geometriam situs pertinentis’ (Euler) ref1 sonar ref1, ref2 sound waves ref1, ref2 soundings ref1 Southwark & Vauxhall (S&V) water company ref1, ref2, ref3 Soviet Union, projections of the ref1 Sowers, Derek ref1 Spiers, Hugo ref1 Stähler, Simon ref1 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount) ref1 Statistics of Deadly Quarrels (Richardson) ref1 Steinhaus, Hugo ref1, ref2 Stephanopoulos, Nicholas ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Sterling, Colleen ref1 Stoa, Ryan ref1, ref2 Stone, Lawrence ref1 subjective probabilities ref1 sum of secants ref1, ref2, ref3 Switzerland school districts ref1 Syene, Egypt ref1, ref2 Sylvester, James Joseph ref1n ‘synchronoptic world history’ timeline ref1 tangents ref1n territorial seas ref1n, ref2 Tharp, Marie ref1, ref2 Theorema Egregium (Gauss) ref1 three-dimensional ‘map’ ref1 toises ref1 Tolman, Edward C. ref1 tomography ref1, ref2 topography ref1n topological maps Catawba Deerskin Map ref1, ref2 connections ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 distances, distortion of ref1, ref2 distortions ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 etymology ref1 homeomorphisms ref1, ref2 London Tube map ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 Peutinger Map ref1 Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo ref1 Toy Story 2 (Pixar) ref1 Traveling Salesman, The ref1 travelling salesperson problem (TSP) ant colony optimization algorithm ref1 heuristics ref1 Meals on Wheels routes ref1, ref2 Menger’s ‘messenger problem’ ref1 nearest neighbour algorithm ref1, ref2 RAND Corporation’s challenge ref1 On-Road Integrated Optimization and Navigation (ORION) (UPS) ref1 Traveling Salesman, The ref1 UPS example ref1 Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1825) ref1, ref2 triangle inequality ref1, ref2, ref3 triangles, spherical ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5 triangulation ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7 trigonometry ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 trilateration ref1 Tropic of Cancer ref1n Tropic of Capricorn ref1n Tuchinsky, Philip M. ref1, ref2 Twain, Mark ref1n typhoid fever ref1 Tyson, Neil deGrasse ref1 UNICEF ref1 United Kingdom coastline ref1, ref2 gerrymandering in ref1, ref2 and Norway Fisheries Case ref1 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) ref1, ref2 United Nations Geneva Conference on the Law of the Sea ref1 United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14 ref1 United States Canada border ref1, ref2 coastline measurements ref1 exclusive economic zone ref1 gerrymandering in the ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6 school segregation ref1 state borders ref1, ref2 University of Arizona worldview study ref1 University of Princeton MCMC study ref1 UPS (United Parcel Service) ref1, ref2 Utah Navajos ref1 Van der Heyden, Gaspar ref1 Vancouver Police Department, Canada ref1 Velarde, Lorie ref1 Vienna Mathematics Colloquium ref1 Vistula River, Poland ref1 Vol Libre (Carpenter) ref1 volcanoes ref1, ref2 Voronoi diagrams ref1, ref2, ref3 Voronoy, Georgy Feodosevich ref1 voting districts ref1, ref2, ref3; see also gerrymandering Voting Rights Act (1965) (USA) ref1, ref2 Warren, William H. ref1 wars ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7n, ref8 Washington Daily News, The ref1 Waymo company ref1, ref2 Web Mercator projection ref1 wedding planning ref1, ref2 Wegener, Alfred ref1 Whitehead, Henry ref1 Wilson, Robin ref1 workhouses ref1n Wright, Edward ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4 Picture Acknowledgements Here: ‘Geodesics on the Earth: Demonstrating How Geodesics Appear to Curve on a 2D Representation of 3D Space,’ Academo, https://academo.org/demos/geodesics, accessed 10 January 2024.

Literary Theory for Robots: How Computers Learned to Write
by Dennis Yi Tenen
Published 6 Feb 2024

Painting by the numbers diminished the myth (and the earning potential) of any artist. It wasn’t good for one’s career. And so the world marveled at Vladimir Nabokov’s exceptional use of index cards in the making of his novels, while the pages of the Editor routinely pushed ordinary articles about “using index cards to author your bestseller,” alongside advertisements for home card-­filing furniture. Now, I did hunt down and read most of the books above, so you don’t have to. Some of them were pretty bad. Others offered reasonable advice. The techniques proposed within—­the machinery, so to speak—­generally fell into one of several categories. The first included “skeleton forms” proper—­consisting of near-­finished, prefabricated pieces that could be easily assembled and modified lightly to produce reasonable outputs, such as letters, essays, or short stories.

Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
by Dan Bouk
Published 22 Aug 2022

That is nowhere better illustrated than in a photograph from the offices of Roosevelt’s crowning achievement: the Social Security Board (later renamed the Social Security Administration), where men in suits, suspenders, and vests leaf through card files containing wage records for tens of millions of Americans.49 Ordinary Americans could well be forgiven their fears that the government had gone dossier mad. Breathless news coverage of the new Social Security system called it “the biggest bookkeeping job in history.” By the middle of 1938—less than two years after the first Social Security numbers were issued—the card files held records for forty million workers, and almost half a million new worker records entered those filing cabinets every month.50 But critics who blamed this giant information-gathering operation on a desire for left-wing dictatorship missed the point.

Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein
Published 17 Mar 2009

The campaign manager, Shadegg explained in How to Win an Election, should follow Mao Tse-tung: “Give me just two or three men in a village,” the dictator wrote, “and I will take the village.” Shadegg’s version of the technique was to pool the names of everyone in the state with whom he and his staff could claim personal association. Researchers uncovered each name’s banking, church, business, lodge, media, and family connections to create a massive card file. People on the list got a “personal” letter from the senator about some piece of legislation that was threatening to them. When recipients replied, they were added to the names on the bulk mailing list that received various campaign letters “personally” addressed from their new friend. This produced over three thousand people loyally working in concert for the campaign, none aware of any other’s efforts—spreading the right rumors, sending bits of intelligence to the office, setting up events and selling to their friends.

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Clif White watched that spring as ACA sucked in thousands that might have gone to them—$6,000 alone from G.E.’s Lem Boulware, Reader’s Digest’s DeWitt Wallace, and Johnson & Johnson’s Robert W. Johnson. That was the exact amount White had already siphoned off from his children’s college fund. Again and again he returned to Washington to get his hands on the card files of Nixon delegates to the 1960 convention. He failed, with ever greater frustration, every time. In June he attended an RNC meeting in Seattle. So did a gang of Harvard kids, led by Bruce Chapman, a member of the team that had drafted the Compact of Fifth Avenue in 1960, and George Gilder, David Rockefeller’s godson, who put out a new magazine called Advance—“flaming moderates,” they called themselves.

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Columnists Evans and Novak called the Goldwater boom “the closest thing to a spontaneous mass movement in modern American politics.” White canceled Uline Arena and booked the much larger D.C. Armory. It was also time to scout out first-in-the-nation New Hampshire. White met with New Hampshire YAF leaders, who bragged that they were ready to begin organizing for the primary. “Fine,” White responded. “Show me a card file of every voter in a township indicating whether each one is pro-Goldwater, anti-Goldwater, or for some other candidate.” Seeing them stunned to silence (of course they had no such thing), White continued: “When you have something close to that for every town and city in New Hampshire, let me know, and then we could announce a state Draft Goldwater committee.”

Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing
by Jacob Goldstein
Published 14 Aug 2020

The Money Illusion Irving Fisher was a Yale economist, a health-food zealot, a prohibitionist, and a fitness guru who filled a floor of his New Haven mansion with exercise equipment. He coauthored a book called How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science, which sold half a million copies, the royalties of which Fisher gave to an organization he’d founded called the Life Extension Institute. He invented a card filing system to organize all his projects, then patented it, then created a company called Index Visible to sell the card system, then merged his company with a bigger company and made a fortune. Fisher was a proponent of eugenics, which was widely popular at the time but is today clearly repulsive and immoral.

A Burglar's Guide to the City
by Geoff Manaugh
Published 17 Mar 2015

In a short essay called “Every Move Will Be Recorded,” historian Grégoire Chamayou recounts a hypothetical system of urban surveillance devised by an eighteenth-century police officer named Jacques François Guillauté. In a book about police reform written for King Louis XV of France, Guillauté proposed thoroughly and rigorously updating the Parisian address system. This would require a behemoth piece of machinery that operated a bit like an oversize index-card file—or what Chamayou describes as a “huge archiving machine linked to a map in a central room”—and some arithmetical cartography. “Paris was to be divided into distinct districts,” Chamayou writes, “each receiving a letter, and each being subdivided into smaller sub-districts. In each sub-district each street had accordingly to receive a specific name.

User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product
by Jeff Patton and Peter Economy
Published 14 Apr 2014

Your stories will work the same way; that is, you may write them on cards, keep them in a list in a spreadsheet, enter them into your favorite tracking tool, or enter them in the tracking tool your company makes you use—you know, the one everyone grumbles about. In a library, you know there’s a book out there somewhere, and if you have identified the right card filed away in the card catalog, it’s easy to find it. Similarly, with a story, you know there’s a growing amount of information out there somewhere. It grows and evolves with each conversation. And, hopefully, however your company chooses to keep track of the information, it’s easy to find, too. If you want to go really old school, keep the details of all those discussions taped onto big sheets of flipchart paper on the wall so you can keep talking about them whenever you want.

The Cohousing Handbook: Building a Place for Community
by Chris Scotthanson and Kelly Scotthanson
Published 1 Nov 2004

No meeting may be convened without two thirds of the member households represented in person but the meeting may continue despite the withdrawal of enough members to leave less than a quorum. At the start of the meeting, a dated 5” x 8” index card shall be signed by all the members present and used to divide the card file into a section for each meeting. APPENDIX: SAMPLE DOCUMENTS 3. All members may participate in decision-making and voting on proposals. 4. Only one person has the right to speak at any one time during a meeting. Anyone else wishing to speak shall so indicate nonverbally and the recorder shall list them in the order they will be called. 5.

The Art of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching
by Donald Ervin Knuth
Published 15 Jan 1998

." = "United States" Ignore space after prefix in surnames Ignore initial article Ignore apostrophe in English Surname begins with upper case letter (Most of these rules are subject to certain exceptions, and there are many other rules not illustrated here.) If you were given the job of sorting large quantities of catalog cards by computer, and eventually maintaining a very large file of such cards, and if you had no chance to change these long-standing policies of card filing, how would you arrange the data in such a way that the sorting and merging operations are facilitated? 18. [M25] (E. T. Parker.) Leonhard Euler once conjectured [JVova Acta Acad. Sci. Petropolitanas 13 A795), 45-63, §3; written in 1778] that there are no solutions to the equation 6 I 6 u +v 6 w 6 i 6 6 x +y =z in positive integers u, v, w, x, y, z.

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This may be called an inclusive query, because it asks for all records that include a certain set of attributes, if we assume that l's denote attributes that are present and O's denote attributes that are absent. For example, the recipes in Table 1 that call for both baking powder and baking soda are Glazed Gingersnaps and Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookies. In some applications it is sufficient to provide for the special case of inclusive queries. This occurs, for example, in the case of many manual card-filing systems, such as "edge-notched cards" or "feature cards." An edge-notched card system corresponding to Table 1 would have one card for every recipe, with holes cut out for each ingredient (see Fig. 46). In order to process an inclusive query, the file of cards is arranged into a neat deck and needles are put in each column position corresponding to an attribute that is to be included.

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Conf. 22 A967), 41-49; Jerome A. Feldman and Paul D. Rovner, CACM 12 A969), 439-449; Burton H. Bloom, Proc. ACM Nat. Conf. 24 A969), 83-95; H. S. Heaps and L. H. Thiel, Information Storage and Retrieval 6 A970), 137-153; Vincent Y. Lum and Huei Ling, Proc. ACM Nat. Conf. 26 A971), 349-356. A good survey of manual card-filing systems appears in Methods of Information Handling by C. P. Bourne (New York: Wiley, 1963), Chapter 5. Balanced filing schemes were originally developed by C. T. Abraham, S. P. Ghosh, and D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri in 1965; see the article by R. C. Bose and Gary G. Koch, SIAMJ. Appl. Math. 17 A969), 1203-1214.

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
by Isabel Wilkerson
Published 6 Sep 2010

He was a pragmatist who had learned the fine art of extracting whatever he needed from guilt-ridden northerners or poorly credentialed but powerful segregationists who wouldn’t want him living next to them but might grant him a concession or donate to his cause, the colored graduate school Atlanta University. He was so vigilant as to his place in the colored hierarchy that he kept a card file near his desk, Time magazine reported, on every black person in the United States that he considered “worthy of a high position in Government and education” in case he got a query from Washington.202 Without trying, Rufus Clement had become an unwitting rival of Robert, not only for the affections of Robert’s wife and children but in both men’s unspoken effort to prove that where each man had ended up was the better place for colored people.

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Dee, 1998), p. 118. 196 “I fought the good fight”: Ibid., p. 147. 197 “It was like sitting around”: Ibid., p. 120. 198 “It was like having”: Ibid., p. 26. 199 Mahalia Jackson: Mahalia Jackson and Evan McLeod Wylie, Movin’ On Up (New York: Hawthorne Books, 1966), p. 119. 200 “Shall we sacrifice”: Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy, Anyplace but Here (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1945), p. 176. 201 The top ten cities: Isabel Wilkerson, “Study Finds Segregation in Cities Worse than Scientists Imagined,” The New York Times, August 5, 1989, an article on the findings of a five-year study of 22,000 census tracts conducted by University of Chicago sociologists Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton. 202 kept a card file: “The Extracurricular Clout of Powerful College Presidents,” Time, February 11, 1966, p. 64. 203 “in addition to his widow”: “Dr. Rufus Clement of AU Dies Here,” New York Amsterdam News, November 11, 1967, p. 45. 204 The evening was unusually cool: Earl Caldwell, “Martin Luther King Is Slain in Memphis; White Is Suspected; Johnson Urges Calm: Guard Called Out; Curfew Ordered in Memphis, but Fires and Looting Erupt,” The New York Times, April 5, 1968, p. 1. 205 “About 74 percent”: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (New York: Bantam Books, 1968), p. 6.

The Evolution of Useful Things
by Henry Petroski
Published 2 Jan 1992

The best features these most popular paper clips possess individually are combined in the spread-legged Universal (also known as the Imperial) Clip, whose “unique design … allows for easy application with tremendous gripping power.” As we all know, putting even the best-looking of paper clips on cards can be tricky and, once achieved, makes a pile of them awfully bulky. Thus the Nifty Clip was “designed for holding thicker grades of papers such as card or index stock [and is] flattened to conserve card file space.” The Peerless (Owl) Clip, whose “rounded eyes prevent catching and tearing,” not only “holds more than Gems” but with “greater tension than Gems.” Ring Clips, essentially copies of the old Rinklips, are “used when holding only a few sheets,” come in five sizes, and possess the advantages of having “less thickness than Gems” and using “less space in files.”

What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
by John Markoff
Published 1 Jan 2005

Shortly before he traveled to Philadelphia with Hew Crane to present his ideas on scaling in January 1960, Engelbart began organizing a series of informal seminars at SRI on the idea of augmenting the human intellect. Although they did not have computers with which to explore their ideas, members of the group had been fiddling with proto-PC applications. At the time, the most efficient simple sorting techniques were card-file systems. Data were entered by hand on cards, the outside edges of which were ringed with punched holes. Cutting notches to match various attributes made it possible to retrieve information by sliding a knitting needle through a stack of cards and shaking. The cards with the notched holes would fall out of the deck; it was thus possible to perform simple statistical operations this way.

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
by Dava Sobel
Published 6 Dec 2016

This resource, begun in 1897 by a former assistant, already consisted of fifteen thousand cards listing every published reference to the approximately five hundred known variables, culled from bulletins, journals, and reports of observers all over the world. Miss Cannon could read both French and German, the other two languages of science. She fattened the decks of cards in the existing bibliography and created new card files as new variables came to light. In mid-April, when Mrs. Fleming fully recovered her strength, and no longer needed to take a carriage to the observatory, she reviewed her time-capsule diary with a pang of contrition. “I find that on March 12 I have written at considerable length regarding my salary.

We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages
by Annelise Orleck
Published 27 Feb 2018

Often they are exploited by bosses from their home countries who try to intimidate workers by threatening to harm family members living abroad. In spite of this, restaurant workers in the Bronx and Queens, warehouse workers in Brooklyn, and retail workers in Manhattan have repeatedly struck since 2012, signed union cards, filed court complaints, and brought cases before the NLRB. And they have won. A 2012 campaign led by Mexican immigrant Mahoma Lopez to organize the Hot & Crusty bakeries, and a 2016–17 union drive at the B&H photo warehouse, resulted in new unions, no small feat.4 Still, Aran and Rodriguez say that the most radical work they do is psychological.

Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
by Syd Field
Published 17 Dec 2007

Do not use a fancy, embossed leatherette cover. Make sure your script is on 8½ × 11 paper, and not 8 ½ × 14, legal size. You’ve got one shot with your script, so make it count. One shot means this: When I was head of the story department at Cinemobile, every submission received was logged in a card file and cross-indexed by title and author. The material was read, evaluated, and written up in synopsis form. It’s called “coverage.” The reader’s comments were carefully registered, then filed away. If you submit your screenplay to a studio or production company, and they read and reject it, and then you decide to rewrite it and resubmit it, chances are it won’t be read.

What’s Your Type?
by Merve Emre
Published 16 Aug 2018

For one thing, her indicator did not originate in the modern corporation, even if that was to be its first resting place. Ever the devoted child, she had launched her design of the indicator just as her mother had launched her cosmic laboratory of baby training: in the comfort and safety of her home. With the same deck of 3˝ × 5˝ index cards and the same card file that Katharine had once used to chronicle Lyman’s dreams of dark Spanish girls and embarrassing pecks, she proceeded by typing every member of her family. At the top of each card, she wrote the name of the family member and, under that, what she believed to be their Jungian type and their type’s most salient characteristics.

Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
by Howard Rheingold
Published 14 May 2000

In the limit of what we might now imagine, this could be a computer, with which individuals could communicate rapidly and easily, coupled to a three-dimensional color display within which extremely sophisticated images could be constructed, the computer being able to execute a wide variety of processes on parts or all of these images in response to human direction. The displays and processes could provide helpful services and could involve concepts not hitherto imagined (e.g., the pregraphic thinker would have been unable to predict the bar graph, the process of long division, or card file systems). . . . we might imagine some relatively straightforward means of increasing our external symbol-manipulation capability and try to picture the consequent changes that could evolve in our language and methods of thinking. For instance, imagine that our budding technology of a few generations ago had developed an artifact that was essentially a high-speed, semiautomatic table-lookup device, cheap enough for almost everyone to afford and small enough to be carried on the person.

Rummage: A History of the Things We Have Reused, Recycled and Refused To Let Go
by Emily Cockayne
Published 15 Aug 2020

Griffith’s Manual was reprinted in 1930, then revised in 1932, and reprinted seven times by 1944, before coming out in a new edition in 1952. Clearly it was invaluable, and it remained in wide use for over two decades. Nonetheless, none of Griffith’s works appears in the main catalogue of one of Britain’s three deposit libraries – they appear only in supplementary material card file boxes. Her books were seen as inconsiderable by librarians, despite being published by an academic press, despite their popularity in their day and despite the subcutaneous effect such works had on the nation’s attitude to repair in the mid-twentieth century and beyond: mere ‘women’s work’. The impact of her work was still felt long after.

Autotools
by John Calcote
Published 20 Jul 2010

You can define the CLEANFILES variable to contain a whitespace-separated list of files (or wild-card specifications) to be removed. I used a clean-local target in this case, because the CLEANFILES variable has one caveat: It won't remove directories, only files. Each of the rm commands that removes a wild-card file specification refers to at least one directory. I'll show you a proper use of CLEANFILES shortly. Regardless of how well your unit tests clean up after themselves, you still might wish to write clean rules that attempt to clean up intermediary test files. That way, your makefiles will clean up droppings from interrupted tests and debug runs.[122] Remember that the user may be building in the source directory.

Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity
by Edward Tenner
Published 8 Jun 2004

A French engineer named Henri Liber established a company called Flambo in 1919 to market a secretarial chair with a backrest adjustable up and down along a U-shaped metal track. Meanwhile, postwar Germany turned its drive for standardization and public health to seating. In the later 1920s, the office supply manufacturer Fortschritt of Freiburg im Breisgau, best known for state-of-the-art card file systems, marketed a Fortschritt-Stuhl (“Progress Chair”) with a spring-loaded back support system—unlike the rigid Tan-Sad and Flambo—and a lever under the seat for adjusting the height of the chair without rising, fifty years before this feature became common. An advertisement noted proudly that the Prussian Ministry of Welfare (Volkswohlfahrtsministerium) had awarded the chair a winning ninety-point score in an evaluation of seating that must have been one of the first conducted by any government.

Years of the City
by Frederik Pohl
Published 1 Jan 1984

The first upturn in his amative fortunes was when he came home almost on time one night and found the apartment full of cooking smells. Heidi was in good spirits. She made them both drinks while the microwave finished their baked bluefish and, responding to the look on his face, laughed. “You haven’t noticed anything special about this week?” she asked. He pursed his lips while he ran through his mental card file. Not Christmas and not Valentine’s Day. Not their anniversary— “Your birthday!” he exclaimed. “But that’s not until Sunday.” She grinned and shook her head. “That’s not what I mean, although there’s something I’d like from you. You really haven’t noticed?” “Noticed what?” “I haven’t thrown up for a week!”

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
by Ronen Bergman
Published 30 Jan 2018

After the IDF occupied the Strip, Rehavia Vardi sent some of his men from Unit 504 to search the Egyptian intelligence building in Gaza City, where Mustafa Hafez had been killed a few months before. In a cellar they found a hidden treasure, one that the desperately fleeing Egyptians had neglected to destroy: the intact card file of all the Palestinian terrorists that Hafez and his men had deployed against Israel in the five years preceding the Sinai Campaign. It was as if the Egyptians had left a hit list. Vardi met with chief of staff Dayan and asked for his permission to begin killing the Palestinians named in the card file. Dayan, in turn, received Ben-Gurion’s approval. Vardi then ordered Natan Rotberg—and his vat of explosives—to go into overdrive. Rotberg’s special formula was poured into wicker baskets, cigarette lighters, fruits, vegetables, even pieces of furniture.

From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry
by Martin Campbell-Kelly
Published 15 Jan 2003

One man sitting in the back of the room is using field glasses to examine a change that has just been made on the display board. Clerks and messengers carrying cards and sheets of paper hurry from files to automatic machines. The chatter of teletype and sound of card sorting equipment fills the air. As the departure date for a flight nears, inventory control reconciles the seat inventory with the card file of passenger name records. Unconfirmed passengers are contacted before a final passenger list is sent to the departure gate at the airport. Immediately prior to take off, no-shows are removed from the inventory file and a message sent to downline stations canceling their space.40 Of all the carriers, American Airlines had the most innovative reservation operations.

The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by Justin Fox
Published 29 May 2009

During a visit to Michigan, a local reporter asked him if the title of the 1923 hit song “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was correct English. In typically earnest fashion, Fisher responded, “Yes, it would be correct, if the statement was preceded by the question ‘Have you no bananas?’”27 By the second half of the 1920s, Fisher had also become a big financial success. Years before, he had devised a card-filing system to help him keep track of his many endeavors. Fisher’s “Index Visible” filing cards, cut so that the first line of each was visible at a glance (similar to the Rolodex, which came along decades later), were a significant advance in information storage and retrieval. In 1913 he launched a company to manufacture and market his filing system, and in 1925 he sold it to office equipment maker Kardex Rand, which merged with typewriter titan Remington to create one of the hot technology stocks of the 1920s, Remington Rand.

East West Street: On the Origins of "Genocide" and "Crimes Against Humanity"
by Philippe Sands
Published 14 Jul 2016

From the city archives: Government Archive of Lviv Oblast. Only Leon was born: Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw. Stanisław Żółkiewski: Born 1547, died 1620. Alex Dunai gave me: Digital copy on file. “at the far end”: Joseph Roth, The Wandering Jews, trans. Michael Hofmann (Granta, 2001), 25. It lay at the western: Card file of Żółkiew landowners, 1879, Lviv Historical Archives, fond 186, opys 1, file 1132, vol. B. A peace treaty was signed: Treaty of London, signed May 30, 1913, by Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, Italy, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary. Yet just a month later: Treaty of Bucharest, signed Aug. 10, 1913, by Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Greece, and Montenegro.

The Unicorn's Secret
by Steven Levy
Published 6 Oct 2016

Moses considered it money well spent; he was a self-admitted information freak and he considered Ira one of the world’s best sources of news of the mind. Soon Hallett cleared the way for Bell to pay the duplication costs of the network. As the project evolved, he and Ira arrived at a protocol. The names of the members of the network were kept in a card file maintained by Hallett’s secretary. The list eventually grew to more than 350 names in more than twenty countries. Each time Ira came with a mailing, usually once or twice a week, he would specify which people would receive this particular set of materials. His list was usually written on a yellow, lined cover page, the names scrawled in Ira’s unmistakable block lettering.

Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions
by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher
Published 1 Jul 2009

This means users looking for one thing (e.g., “Billy the Kid”) should find other “same” things (e.g., “William Antrim,” one of his aliases). Semantically reconciled directories recognize when a newly reported entity references a previously observed entity. Directories that contain semantically reconciled data can be thought of much like a library card file, with one big difference: cards relating to like entities are rubber-banded together. This means if a search locates one card, as a bonus, all other related cards are discovered without any additional effort. Most notably, some of the cards in the rubber-banded clump of library cards may not even contain the original data item being searched.

Computer: A History of the Information Machine
by Martin Campbell-Kelly and Nathan Ensmenger
Published 29 Jul 2013

To deal with any of these requests, the reservations clerks would have to refer to a series of well-lit boards displaying the availability of seats on each flight scheduled to depart over the next few days. For flights further ahead in time, the agent would have to walk across the room to consult a voluminous card file. If the inquiry resulted in a reservation, a cancellation, or a ticket sale, the details of the transaction would be recorded on a card and placed in an out-tray. Every few minutes these cards would be collected and taken to the designated availability-board operator, who would then adjust the inventory of seats available for each flight.

Exploding the Phone: The Untold Story of the Teenagers and Outlaws Who Hacked Ma Bell
by Phil Lapsley
Published 5 Feb 2013

“Beckley lived in a plush Miami Beach apartment house, five or six stories up, well insulated. There was no way to get in and do anything,” Sharp says. “We were pretty well restricted to phone record checks.” But the phone records were a treasure trove. Over a period of months Sharp amassed a 3x5 index card file—some twenty thousand cards’ worth—of every long-distance number Beckley called. “We didn’t know the term then,” Sharp says, “but what we really needed was a computer database.” Painstakingly, Sharp and his colleagues built a detailed map of Beckley and his associates. By combining this with other intelligence they formed a solid picture of his bookmaking operation.

Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965
by Francis O. French , Colin Burgess and Paul Haney
Published 2 Jan 2007

This safety measure had nothing to do with actuating the explosive feature of the hatch that was soon scheduled to come into play. Apart from this minor annoyance, everything was going according to plan. While Liberty Bell 7 continued its descent Grissom heard from the pilot of the radio relay airplane, designated Card File 23. "We are heading directly toward you," the pilot announced, as the spacecraft passed three thousand feet. Then the first of the rescue helicopters, flying under the code name of Hunt Club-1, was in contact. Pilot Jim Lewis told Grissom they were about two miles southwest of the projected splashdown site.

Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Politics and Society in Modern America)
by Louis Hyman
Published 3 Jan 2011

Revealing informants would not increase accuracy, Burge insisted but, because of fear of harassment, “sources [would] alter their stories.”174 The intensely personal information revealed through investigators and services like the Welcome Wagon were important because Burge believed that “the care with which a person exercises the premises of his home seemed to be carried over into other habits of his life.”175 Despite his claims to the contrary, the Retail Credit Company manual instructed investigators “to investigate in such a manner that the applicant or insured will not learn of the investigation.”176 The decentralization of the information in card files and 300 branch offices offset, Burge felt, the Orwellian possibilities of the information’s misuse. The very inefficiency of the qualitative, noncomputerized systems made Retail Credit Company’s services not nearly as sinister as detractors like Westin claimed. The older filing systems still allowed for privacy breeches, however, even without being centralized.

Of a Fire on the Moon
by Norman Mailer
Published 2 Jun 2014

No wonder they spoke in the mood-smashed, random-item sequences of the modern world, where the depth of the thought was not nearly so important as the ability to brook interruption, and then interruption upon interruption, to live in an environment so formless and externally directed that weightlessness was the next and logical step, to suffer shortwave radio and the life of static like deaf people communicating in a factory which produces nothing but noisemakers and celebration horns, yes, let us quit this accounting of their third day, let us dispense with their next television show, their LM Delta P, their O2 flow alarm, their platform realignments and further water dumps, their Delta H updates, their cryo checks, their reports on the docking latches, the disassembly and reinstallation of the probe, drogue and hatch to the Lunar Module, their entrance into the Lem, their examination, their television humor—now near to the humor at a drunken party, “Hello, there, earthlings,” let us pass over the new data for the Alternate and Contingency checklist, the switch positions on the high-gain antenna, the changes in the glycol flow for the radiators, the small shifts in the Lunar Module mission rules, the supper and the music played, the check on the placements of the landing site obliques, the correction of typos on the APS DPS fuel card, the listing of three adjustments in the Mission Rule’s GO–NO GO card file, the check on the gyroscope drift, the discussion of abort programs above or below low gate with consequent loss of thrust axis, the status report, the Delta P again, it all comes in with lists and pieces and interrupted parts, comments on the tone in the alarm signals and the ubiquitous use of the word “great” for anything that works as well as it was designed to work, great, great, great, the television show was great, and the last waste-water dump, the Saturn performance and the Service Propulsion Motor performance, the burps and the bursts of the thrusters.

One Day in August: Ian Fleming, Enigma, and the Deadly Raid on Dieppe
by David O’keefe
Published 5 Nov 2020

Although there was no guarantee that these vessels would be portside on the morning of an attack, the constant reading of their message traffic through Ultra gave Bletchley a good sense of the rhythm and routine of German channel traffic which increased the odds that a few would be berthed in the outer harbour with only skeleton crews to defend them. If not, Godfrey had another – fail-safe – plan. Since the summer of 1940, Naval Section had cobbled together a card file on German communications establishments in the Channel (and elsewhere) based on information from all possible sources – Ultra, captured documents, photo-reconnaissance, agent reports and prisoners of war. As the US Navy’s report on British pinch policy revealed: ‘Gradually, the locations of all these establishments became known, at least approximately, and precisely what codes and ciphers they all held.’14 All of this targeting information was ‘posted on a large chart, pins of different colours and shapes being used to indicate the different codes and ciphers held at the various locations.

Clear and Present Danger
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1989

Ritter paced around his office until they arrived, then walked over to see Mrs. Cummings. "Did Ryan call in or anything?" "No, and I didn't see him at all. Do you know where he is?" Nancy asked. "Sorry, I don't." Ritter walked back and on impulse called Ryan's home, where all he got was an answering machine. He checked his card file for Cathy's work number and got past the secretary to her. "This is Bob Ritter. I need to know where Jack is." "I don't know," Dr. Caroline Ryan replied guardedly. "He told me yesterday that he had to go out of town. He didn't say where." A chill went across Ritter's face. "Cathy, I have to know.

Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
by Studs Terkel
Published 1 Jan 1974

I would make phone calls to—God forgive—advertising agencies, radio stations. If you concentrated on the placeables, you made money. These were the girls who came off the production line of high schools, particularly the Catholic schools. They seemed to be tractable young girls. They went into banks as filing clerks in those days. You called the banks and you had your card file and you sent the girl over to the job. You could be a mass production worker yourself, working these girls into the system. There were no tough corners, nothing abrasive. One of my colleagues made two hundred dollars a week shoveling people into these slots. I wasn’t doing what the other girls at the desks were doing.

Gorbachev: His Life and Times
by William Taubman

Irina helped her mother sort through her sociological questionnaires, which Raisa spread out on the floor. According to Lydia Budyka, Raisa didn’t worship order for its own sake, but loved her home and wanted it to be warm and welcoming. But some of her efforts went beyond that. For example, Raisa asked her daughter to prepare a card file for the hundreds, if not thousands, of books the Gorbachevs had collected, many of them philosophical tomes reflecting Raisa’s academic specialty. By the 1960s, with her husband’s help, she had managed to obtain copies of the Bible, the Gospels, and the Koran, none easily available in an atheistic state.

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House
by Peter Baker
Published 21 Oct 2013

Far apart as they were, Bush and Cheney found their campaigns playing out in similar ways. They both had to show they were homegrown, they both had to translate what they had seen at the national level to the local level, and they both had something to learn about themselves. Bush tapped his parents’ card file of supporters for campaign cash, including Rumsfeld, while striving to be his own man. Still mastering the art of the stump, he was driving home from a speech one day and asked Laura how it had gone; not well, she answered, shocking him so much that he crashed the car into a garage. Cheney, for his part, drove around the state listening to eight-track tapes of the Carpenters.

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published 1 Sep 2008

He asked all his customers for their old magazines as scrap paper for the war effort.42 Then he would check the labels on the magazines to figure out when the subscriptions were expiring, using a code book he had gotten from Moore-Cottrell, the publishing powerhouse that had hired him as an agent to sell magazines. He made a card file of subscribers, and before their subscriptions expired, Warren would be knocking at their door, selling them a new magazine.43 Because The Westchester had so much turnover in wartime, Warren’s biggest dread was customers who skipped out and didn’t pay, leaving him stuck with the cost of their papers.

Executive Orders
by Tom Clancy
Published 2 Jan 1996

.” Wilmer had helped establish the eye institute in Riyadh, and Bernie had stayed five months to do some clinical instruction. “He performed surgery on a cousin who was injured in a plane crash. He's back flying. And those are your children over there?” “Yes, Your Highness.” This one went into the card file as a good guy. “Would you mind if I spoke with them?” “Please.” The Prince nodded and moved off. Caroline Ryan, he thought, making his mental notes. Highly intelligent, highly perceptive. Proud. Will be an asset to her husband if he has the wit to make use of her. What a pity, he thought, that his own culture utilized its women so inefficiently-but he wasn't King yet, might never be, and even if he were to become so, there were limits to the changes he could make under the best of circumstances.

Engineering Security
by Peter Gutmann

At this point they know the first byte of the MAC value, and can repeat the process for the second byte, the third byte, and so on until they’ve got the correct MAC value, at which point they’re fooled you into believing that you’re getting untampered data [449][450] [451][452] (note that they’re not actually generating MACs for the data, they’re just appending different values until they get one that passes the check). This sort of byte-at-a-time attack isn’t limited to guessing MAC values, you can also use it to extract private keys from some smart cards. The keys are typically stored in card files that can’t be read from outside the card, but it’s still possible to write to them since you need to create the key in the first place. To perform the attack, you encrypt some data with the key and record the result. Then you set the first byte of the file to zero and check whether an encryption with the resulting modified key matches the original encryption.

The power broker : Robert Moses and the fall of New York
by Caro, Robert A
Published 14 Apr 1975

If Moses refused to accept ideas from public, experts or aides—from, in general, anyone at all—the source of his ideas, his concept of public works for New York City, could be only his own mind. The mind was brilliant, but even a brilliant mind is only as good as the material—the input—fed into it. It was at about this time that Lazarus, planning to write a book about government and public figures and keeping a card file of impressions, wrote on a card he filed under the name "Robert Moses": Bob Moses has climbed so high on his own ego, has become so hidebound in his own arbitrariness, that he has removed himself almost entirely from reality and has insulated himself within his own individuality. This difficulty could to some degree have been overcome by sheer mental ability.