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[edit] In the United Kingdom

• Project U.F.O. was the UK version of 1978 American television show Project Blue Book
• Blue book is the nickname given to a Westminster parliamentary paper with a blue cover. It also refers to a weekly digest of signals intelligence reports by the British intelligence agency GCHQ.
• The Blue Book is the nickname of the annual publication of the RACMSA [1] governing motorsport in the UK.
• In Wales, the 1847 parliamentary report (in a blue cover) on the state of education in the country became notorious, causing an outcry over Brad y Llyfrau Gleision: the Treachery of the Blue Books.
• Blue Books were annual reports (with blue covers) produced by the governments of each of the colonies and protectorates of the British Empire.

[edit] In the United States

• In the United States blue books are small books made of composition book paper stapled together with a blue cover with spaces for one's name, class section, the time and date, and subject. They are used to answer questions in University essay exams.
• Kelley Blue Book - an American automotive appraisal firm. "Blue Book" is a registered trademark of Kelley Blue Book Co., Inc.
• Project Blue Book was a 1978 television show about fictional UFO investigators, created by Jack Webb, star of Dragnet.
• Project Blue Book was a U.S. Air Force study on UFOs.
• The Bluebook may also refer to a citation guide used in law review articles or legal documents.
• Blue Book (racing) is a publication of The Jockey Club (US).
• The state of Wisconsin publishes a biannual almanac of state government affairs and statistics entitled the Wisconsin Blue Book. Many other states do the same.
• Blue Book was a magazine from 1905 to 1975.
• Blue Book is the common name for the United States Marine Corps bulletin listing the lineal precedence and seniority of U.S. Marine Corps officers.
• Blue Booking is a term used in Role Playing used to describe short gaming sessions that do not involve the entire group, but which instead focus on the actions of one or a few characters.
• Blue Book for a state in the United States is a term used for each of the United State's directories. These directories offer basic information on a state's legislature (and rules), agencies, judiciary organization, and executives offices. They can also link you to state facts and other helpful state related information.

[edit] In technology

• The Blue Books are spacecraft data and telemetry recommendations made by The Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS)
• The Blue Book protocol was the FTP protocol of the Coloured Book protocols, used primarily by the UK academic network in the 1980s and early 1990s.
• The Blue Book format is the name of one format from the Rainbow Book standards for compact discs, defining the Enhanced CD standard Blue Book background.
• The blue book is a nickname for Smalltalk-80: The language and its Implementation (Adele Goldberg and David Robson, 1983, ISBN 0-201-11371-6), and any virtual machine implementation based upon it.