Special Reports

At sniggle.net: the Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia

About These Pages: An explanation for how this got here, and an outpouring of praise
Anarchæology: Cardiff Giant, Piltdown Man, Shroud of Turin, Book of Mormon, etc.
Anarchism: Bakunin, Berkman, deCleyre, Goldman, Kropotkin, Spooner, Thoreau, etc.
Arm The Homeless: Being armed is never more important than when you’re on the streets
Art Forgery: Pavel Jerdanowich, Hans van Meegeren, Elmyr de Hory, etc.
Bannermania: Help snigglers find their way with our Jammer Banners
Barbie Liberation: The surgical strikes of the Barbie Liberation Organization
Hakim Bey: Sources for on-line writings of poetic terrorist Hakim Bey
Jello Biafra: Dead Kennedys lyricist and singer, mayoral candidate, spoken word artist, prankster
Billboard Liberation: Photos of many a successfully liberated billboard
Breaching Experiments: The curious “breaching experiments” of ethnomethodology
Chalkboard Liberation: New and improved billboard liberation
David Bowman: Conned the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency out of a cool $6 million
Campus Pranks: Tomfoolery within the hallowed halls of higher education.
Canadian Geese: The jet bomber tests over Indian territory? Oh, they’ve been moved.
The Clam: What happens when you invent a venereal disease and plant disinformation far and wide
William Horace de Vere Cole: The prankster behind the Dreadnought hoax
Commerce Jamming: Barbie Liberation Organization, Adbusters, candied poison, etc.
Sniggling the Cops: Using sniggling techniques to flummox the police
Counterfeiting: Do what you love, the money will follow
Cryptozoölogy: Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, witchhunts, aliens, etc.
Dick Tuck: The prankster who haunted Nixon
Ruth Drown: And her radionic Homo-Vibra Ray
Drug Dogs: Drug Sniffing Dogs an American Tragedy
Election Jamming: Sniggling the democratic process
Elmyr de Hory: One of the greatest art forgers of our time
Elvis Schmeidekamp: Has a Posse
Exotic Plants: Heinous welsh squash, variegated obsequium, Thompson’s felchings, etc.
Fake Folx: Luther Blissett, George Psalmanazar, Princess Caraboo, etc.
Franklin’s Parody: Benjamin Franklin’s cunning parody of the pro-slavery argument
Interview With a Sniggler: The man behind sniggle.net talks about culture jamming
No Suspects; No Motive: Broken Glass Stumps Public Safety
The Great God Hoax: Scientology, Subgenius, Brother Jed, creationism, etc.
Guerrilla Hacks: Arm the Homeless, TV Nation, The School Stopper’s Textbook, etc.
Gulf War Conscription Hoax: Boys of Canada; we need your expendable bodies!
Hacktivism: DeCSS, the trojan cow, etoy.com, Zaps Net, etc.
Handy Politicians: The epidemic of youth masturbation continues.
Hitler Diaries: How Konrad Kujau forged history.
Abbie Hoffman: Yippie rabble-rouser and freak and inspiration to us all
Brian G. Hughes: Got rich and started poking fun at conspicuous consumptives
I, Libertine: Jean Shepherd’s fictional fiction
Impostors: Milli Vanilli, Waldo Demara, George DuPre, Stephen Weinberg, etc.
Jed-Heads: The campus ministry of Brother Jed.
Lambda Sigma Delta: A fake frat hits the letters-to-the-editor section
The Laundry Solution: Think placebos were only useful in medicine? Think again!
Li Peng Step Down!: A subversive message hidden in a patriotic poem
Literary Forgeries: Report from Iron Mountain, Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, etc.
Luddism On-line: John Zerzan, Kirkpatrick Sale, Ted Kaczynski, General Ludd
Mellow Yellow: Did you know you can get really high by smoking banana peels?
Millard's Bathtub: H.L. Mencken’s news hoax about America’s first bathtubs
Miscellany: The Realist, the voice of James Earl Jones, the Philadelphia Experiment, etc.
A Modest Proposal: Report from Iron Mountain, The Shortest Way with Dissenters, etc.
The Municipal Logging Hoax: Bringing clear-cutting home
Musical Spoofs: Soy Bomb, Piotr Zak, NegativLand, pirate radio, Fritz Kreisler, etc.
News Trolls: Joey Skaggs, Alan Abel, Arm the Homeless, Michael Born, etc.
Organized Nonsense: Provos, Lettrists, SRL, FC, MNK, Rosicrucians, Team 7, etc.
Performance Art: The Pieman, O.J. Simpson, Emperor Norton, Lord Buckley, etc.
Pranking Signs: Cum Rag Elmo; Quite a Pal
Your Privacy: And our privacy policy here at sniggle.net
Pseudoscience: Perpetual motion, snake-oil, flat-earth theories, dihydrogen monoxide, etc.
P.T. Barnum: To the Prince of Humbugs
Quadro Tracker: A high-tech dowsing rod sold to the cops to help them search for drugs
Scams & Frauds: Capitalism, bubbles, Ponzi schemes, ZZZZ Best, P.T. Barnum, etc.
September Morn: How Harry Reichenbach used Anthony Comstock for a publicity stunt
SLOCS: The San Luis Obispo Cacophony Society
Spectra: A curious and fabricated school of poetry
Stockholm Syndrome: This explains a lot
Strange Behavior: New Morrissey Single: Soy Bomber on Fire
Telemarketing Fun: Don’t waste your opportunity when a telemarketing worm calls
Theory & Advocacy: Hakim Bey, William S. Burroughs, Soy Bomb Nation, Groucho Marxism, etc.
The Trickster: Loki, Bugs Bunny, Coyote, Nasreddin Hodja, Legba, Tyl Ulenspiegel, etc.
Hugh Troy: The hall-of-fame practical joker from Cornell University
Vandalism: Graffiti, billboard liberation, crop circles, art sabotage, etc.
Wanted: Rabid Pigs: Extrajudicial state killers get the state to sue their accusers
Who'll Cop to It: An official warning about police brutality
William S. Burroughs: Index to on-line works by Old Bull Lee
William Voigt: The crafty Captain von Köpenick

snig·gle (v) — To fish for eels by thrusting a baited hook into their hiding places.