It’s even more interesting that “Kirk Allen” was actually the leading US expert on psychological warfare, he worked with the OSS and founded the first military unit devoted to psychological warfare.
The part about being involved with the H-Bomb was either coincidence or deliberate misdirection—Linebarger’s entire career was devoted to early Psy Ops. It makes me wonder if his entire exchange with Dr. Lindner was in fact an experiment. Linebarger was such a prolific science fiction author he used multiple pseudonyms to keep up with his output, so he’d have ample material to collect something like the massive pile of documents he gave Dr. Lindner, you know?
It’s also equally odd to contemplate that Linebarger really was insane, because boy, that’s a lot of batshit crazy fuckers being used by our military and intelligence organizations. John Nash was a fucked up dude, too. Definitely check out the documentary “The Trap” on Google Video if you haven’t seen it.
Heheh. Had never heard of the Codex before. Fun stuff. I recently spent some time working on creating a game world for an RPG. It was a completely original setting, with its own language and grammar and writing system. I was generating tons of resources, geography, history, everything I could think of, that I would need when running my game.
When working on something like that, if you’re really talented and creative, you will end up with the kind of magnum opus displayed in that story of Kirk Allen, or the Codex. A person who tries hard enough can create as close an approximation as is possible to the real thing. If it walks like an ummite, and it quacks like an ummite…
thirtyseven, if you download the program Foxit PDF Reader/Creator, you can install a virtual printer that will allow you to save anything which can be printed as a PDF file. You can rename CBR or CBZ files to RAR or ZIP respectively, extract the images, highlight them all in Windows, print, and use the virtual PDF printer.
prunesquallor, if you want to upload the Codex in PDF, by all means go ahead! I am having a bit of trouble with my own conversion, the file size is coming out about double what it originally was. I’ll probably figure it out tomorrow or sometime, but in the mean time, please do! Maybe you can do it an easier way
This virtual printer has been working great for TXT and HTML stuff, but this is my first time using it on a CBR/CBZ.
*edit*
I had the PPI wrong. Should be able to do it right now…
Ok, I got a fairly nice-looking pdf with uniform page size now, using (with a little help from the gimp) ImageMagick package and the pdftk package, with the following dos commands:
for %a in (*.jpg) do convert -density 198x198 %a %a.jpg
for %a in (*.jpg.jpg) do convert %a %a.pdf
pdftk *.pdf cat output codex.pdf
del *.jpg.jpg.*
(ymmv)
Command line tools give you more control than say Adobe Distiller and are free, too!
