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

On This Day in Snigglery	April 24, 2003: The “Monkey Man” of Tunbridge Wells, a real life superhero complete with mask and cape, is invented in some letters sent to the local paper. The mythical caped crusader later surfaces in the international media from France to New Zealand to the United States before the prank is revealed. (See News Trolls for more info)