I know it's federal law but if it's not incorporated into the code, it's just not going to happen except on federal money jobs.:headshake

A friend of mine's dad was the editor of the edition that came out in the late 1970s/early 1980s. The particular stamp that he put on that project was to include the Mickey Mouse phone solely because he wanted the words "Mickey Mouse" to appear in the index. While it's apparently a great honor to be chosen to edit the thing, he had certain opinions about the project.

Interesting...finally pulled my copy down from the bookshelf. Not sure when or how I got it; it may have been used because it's the fifth edition, published in 1956. It doesn't even *have* an index. The drawings (and it's all hand-drawn and lettered) are gorgeous.

I beleive it appeared in the Whole Earth Catalog, which was a dead-tree edition of the World Wide Web published in the 1970s. That's where I first learned about Aikido and Swiss Army Knives. The closest modern equivalant of the WEC is probably Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools. Apparently Kevin editied at least one of the WECs.