{'•„ :•" EDITORS ONLINE DIRECTOR ART DIRECTOR Mark Frauenfelder WillKreth Georgia Rucker Carla Sinclair Gareth Branwyn RIVERHEAD BOOKS, NEW YORK CONTENTS 9 Foreword by Bruce Sterling Chapter 1: What Is a Happy Mutant? 12 Introduction 16 The Mr. Magoo Theory of Mutant Progress 17 Ribofunk: Life Is the Ultimate Happy Mutant 18 Happy Mutant Hall of Fame Ckciolina: The Little Fleshy One Theodore Geisei. Seuss I Am! Timothy Leary: Happy Mutant at Large Sun Ra: Saturnian Shaman of Sound Lady Lovelace: The Enchantress of Numbers William M. Gaines: The Worry-Free Madman Chapter 2: Reality Hacking 24 Introduction 26 Do-It-Yourself Radio & TV 29 Invasion of the Paper Smiles 30 A Guide to Personal Brand Names 34 Cold Shoulder (A Good OF Fashioned Phone Prank!) 36 So Many Bad Guys, So Little Time: The Guerrilla Art of Robbie Conal 38 Burning Man 40 Joey Skaggs 44 The Urban Absurdist Survival Kit™ 50 Craig Baldwin: Plagiarism Saves Time 52 Shenanigans in Cyberspace 54 How to Work at Work 55 Cacophony Society 56 Building Hackers 58 Hacking 60 Billboard Liberation Front 5 Chapter 3: Better Living Through Silicon 62 Introduction 64 Your.Name@Here: E-mail Identity Hacking 65 Net.Bozo Field Guide 71 Cyberspace for 25$ 72 Tom Jennings: Gardening in Cyberspace 74 Net.Weirdness 86 Freaks and Jim Ludtke 88 Digital Darwin 92 Digital Dodoes Chapter 4: Supreme Weirdos 96 Introduction 98 Journey to Kooktopia 104 How to Be a Supreme Weirdo 106 Lamprey Systems: Software That Sucks! 110 Patch Adams: Why Be Normal? 112 Are Fan Club Presidents Nuts? or The Tortured, Ridiculed, Unappreciated Life of a Fan Club President 118 Keane vs. Keane 120 Ivan Stang: Sacred Scribe of the Church of the SubGenius 127 Tripping to an Odd Universe: The Mystery of the Codex 128 Szukalski: God-King Emperor of the Kook Nation Chapter 5: Toys and Cool Tools 132 Introduction 134 Wow! It's Wham-o! 139 Build a Buddy Out of Scrap Parts! Here's How! 144 Rowdy Robots 145 Bill Barker's Eldritch Company: Spring Catalog 2095 148 Build a Rocket in Your Spare Time! 150 It's a Schwa World After All 152 Mutant Pets 154 Greasy Riders 157 Godzilla's Playhouse Chapter 6: Brain Candy 160 Introduction 162 How to Get Your Zine Seen 166 The World's Greatest Neurozine! 167 Ben Is Dead 168 Zines You Gotta Have 169 Do-It-Yourself Book Publishing 172 A Guide to Mutant Music Makers 176 Mutant Food 177 Review My Album, Win a Car! 178 Roll Your Own CDs, Tapes, and, er.. .LPs 180 Jamming the Image with Mixmaster Corman 182 Mack White: A Howdy Doody Kind of Guy 184 Chris Ware: The Cartoonist That Ate My Brain 186 Ariel Bordeaux 190 Basil Wolverton: Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People 192 Optic Nerve 196 The Incurably Crazy Comics of Jim Woodring 201 Acknowledgments 202 Contributors 204 Editors.