Miscellany

There's a bunch of stuff that I've collected that belongs here somewhere but doesn't fit well into any of the categories I've smooshed together, so I'm just going to toss it all into this salad bar.

America On Line played an April Fool in their news service, something about life being found on Jupiter, and reminiscent of other extraterrestrial findings from our News Trolls section. And AOL was itself jammed by a program called AOHell, which was designed to take advantage of holes in the online service.

Paul Krassner's The Realist has been a long-time source of mingled news and fiction. (Does anyone remember hearing about LBJ porking JFK's entry wound?)

Learn about The Meaning of 'Hack' from those who know. And if it's graduation time in your area, be prepared for theft, vandalism and indecent exposure from departing students. If you're in the Ivy League, your pranks must be of a higher caliber. Check out what the folks at Yale are up to.

Computer conventions need court jesters. Read about the The Macworld Prank and Kill Gates. And mess up your buddy's PC with this collection of clever Windows Pranks.

Feeling wicked right at this very moment? Send some prank email to your favorite corporations from this web page.

A worker (since axed) at a video game company made the heterotic background bimbos in the upcoming time waster a bit more inclusive. Read about how Boy 'Bimbos' Are Too Much for Game-Maker Maxis.

Remember the CB radio? A democratic broadcast medium with plenty of potential for Poetic Terrorism.

And what the world truly needs is just a little bit more Propaganda for the Paranoid, don't you think. And why can't everything have the Voice of James Earl Jones?

There is a massive conspiracy in the works, by the name of Alternative Three, but luckily for us it's been exposed. And of course, the government will never admit to the remarkable Philadelphia Experiment (a.k.a. Project Rainbow)

During the Falkland Islands war, newspaper stands in Britain announced Penguins Capture the Task Force and such. Professor Revilo P. Oliver asks "Can 'Liberals' Be Educated?" using examples of historical frauds, impostors and hoaxes to support his views on the credulity of intellectuals.

Learn how to make spammers nervous with Spam Libs. And I guess it's fair to warn you that Creators Admit Unix, C Hoax.

Thinking of making a hoax web page? Notify the folks running the Fucking With the Brains of the Normals site, and join pages like "Black Market Babies" and "Americans for the Destruction of War Memorials."