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high weirdness by email v2.1 send info and errata to: mporter@nyx.cs.du.edu
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This version *supersedes* previous "editions"; they may safely be deleted
without loss of important information.
As always, this is coming out in a rush, so there are probably lots of holes,
etc. Also, this is a rather long document, and unless you have some sort of
keyword search you may have trouble finding what you're after. I am hoping to
get a hypertext version of this woven into the WorldWideWeb some day [telnet
info.cern.ch and look around] but dont hold your breath. In the mean time
just delete what you dont want. IF YOU ARE GOING TO ARCHIVE THIS OR REPRODUCE
IT, FEEL FREE TO EDIT IT FOR COMPREHENSIBILITY, RELEVANCE, ETC.
At the last minute, trying to put something together for release, I have
simply joined together some "unprocessed" files - they describe:
i] some things from the slopoke ftp site
ii] contents of the red.css political archive [ftp]
iii] scott yanoff's internet resource list
iv] an IRC FAQ
v] some stuff 'left over' from the future-culture FAQ
vi] cult of the dead cow newfiles
vii] ftp.rahul.net archive contents
viii] email addresses for sf fan groups
In the interests of getting info out, etc, this hodgepodge is going out in a
separate file - if anyone wants to archive it as well, & you're on a dos
system, I suggest weird2-1.doc and weird2-1.sup as file names.
if you see something in the unseen category & want to write a review, send it
to me, say whether you want your name used, etc.
A general note: the "best" general net guides are in my opinion
the FutureCulture FAQ (see cyberpunk section) & the Scott Yanoff guide
(appended to this document).
For hardcopy, try the books by Krol and LaQuey, and watch out for Howard
Rheingold's new book on the Internet...
And speaking of books... Have a look at the novella "Voices", by the
mysterious "Scotto", available via ftp from penguin.gatech.edu,
/pub/leri/text/stories, work. and work2..
The listed topics are:
OFFBEAT BUT ORDINARY RELIGIONS AND "SPIRITUALITY"
PAGANISM AND MAGICK, OCCULTISM, SATANISM
WEIRD RELIGIONS
UFOS AND PARANORMAL PHENOMENA
STRANGE INDIVIDUALS
PHILOSOPHY, THINKING ABOUT THINKING, ETC
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
EXTROPIANS
WEIRD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ONLINE ETEXT PROJ'S, ETC
SOME FTP SITES
FORUMS FOR WEIRDNESS ON INTERNET BBS'S
INFORMATION SERVICES
DRUGS MAN!
HACKING INFO AND LEARNING ABOUT THE NET
WEIRD POLITICS AND CONSPIRACY
ZINE REVIEWS
CYBERPUNK AND THE "NEW EDGE"
MISCELLANEOUS ZINES
TASTELESS AND DISGUSTING THINGS
COPYRIGHT VIOLATIONS
MU*S
IRC
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
CULT CLASSICS
POPULAR (AND NOT-SO-POPULAR) MUSIC
RAVES
SOME "IN" PLACES ON THE NET
MISCELLANEOUS, AND UNFINISHED BUSINESS
SOME FILES RECENTLY UPLOADED TO FTP SITES
SCOTT YANOFF'S LISTING
In places I hav cannibalized both Scott Yanoff's listing of internet resources
[reproduced in full at the end] and a list of mailing lists which appeared on
news.lists, I think.
*** OFFBEAT BUT ORDINARY RELIGIONS AND "SPIRITUALITY" ***
On Usenet there is talk.religion.misc [basically = talk.religion.christian],
and soc.religion.*, alt.atheism[.moderated], bit.listserv.christia, and also
(I think) alt.ahmadiyya. Also talk.religion.newage, alt.religion.kibology.
worldwide church of god - if youre a member- mailing list
drew@cs.anu.edu.au
bahai-faith
Contact: bahai-faith-request@oneworld.wa.com (Charles W. Cooper II)
gatewayed to soc.religion.bahai on Usenet
Buddha-l lisserv@ulkyvm.bitnet "scholarly" in orientation
high traffic = ulkyvm.louisville.edu
Forum on Indian and Buddhist studies [listname BUDDHIST?]
listserv@jpntuvm0.bitnet
lds
Contact: lds-request@decwrl.dec.com -or- decwrl!lds-request
Purpose: a forum for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (mormons) to discuss church doctrine, mormon
culture and life in general. Non-members are welcome to join, but
we're not interested in flame wars.
coombs.anu.edu.au
/coombspapers/otherwork/electronic-buddhist-archives
subdirectories: buddhism-gen, -tib, -viet, -zen; shamanism; taoism.
look at /buddhism-zen/zen-email-directory.txt; email addresses of several
dozen individuals or organizations interested in zen, all around the world.
SDAnet
Contact: st0o+SDA@andrew.cmu.edu (Steve Timm)
for and about Seventh-day Adventists. moderated. Anyone may post or subscribe.
Secular Humanist Group
Contact: secular-humanist-request@sugar.neosoft.com (Jim Thompson)
Purpose: to provide a moderated forum for the discussion of secular
lifestyles and philosophies among atheists, agnostics, and secular
humanists. Theists may join the list; however, proselytizing and
debates over God and religion will be referred to more appropriate
forums.
jim@hsf.uab.edu - starting biblical studies over email
mail him with Subject: BSG
"The Religious Studies Publications Journal - CONTENTS is an electronic
journal that disseminates table of contents, abstracts, reviews and
ordering information on new and recent print and electronic publications
of relevance to Religious Studies.
"Electronic subscriptions are free; to subscribe, send a mail message to
Listserv@uottawa or listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca with the text:
SUBSCRIBE CONTENTS your name."
Inquires regarding the CONTENTS project should be sent to the project
director: Michael Strangelove <441495@Uottawa> or <441495@Acadvm1.Uottawa.CA>
The first edition of Michael Strangelove's _The Electric
Mystic's Guide to the Internet: A Complete Bibliography of
Networked Electronic Documents Online Conferences, Serials,
Software and Archives Relevant to Religious Studies_, is now
available via FTP as a Postscript, WordPerfect and low ascii
file (also available via Listserv). Volume One is 64 pages
Volumes Two and Three will be released between October and December.
This bibliography is freely available via the international
academic networks (BITNET/Internet) from the CONTENTS Project
fileserver via FTP from the node panda1.uottawa.ca
(137.122.6.16) in the directory /pub/religion/ as the files
[in PostScript, WP5.1, "low ascii" forms"]
It is also available as a low ascii text via the CONTENTS
Project Listserv fileserver as MYSTICS V1-TXT from
Listserv@uottawa or Listserv@acadvm1.uottawa.ca
Right_Use_of_Will@kether.webo.dg.com, will@kether.webo.dg.com
books of Ceanne DeRohan, dictated by god - help save the universe
low traffic list
URANTIAL listserv%UAFSYSB.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu - sub urantial your_name
the urantia book - available at better occult bookstores everywhere
- logfiles available for subscribers:
> ... for bitnet account persons, the following works:
> tell listserv at uafsysb get urantial log9xxx
> filling in the x's of course with the year and month of your choice;
> archive logs are monthly. Perhaps someone more familiar with the
> internet can specify retrieval from that network. I think the
> protocol is to send mail to listserv@uafsysb.uark.edu
> with the simple command: get urantial log9xxx
I joined with a pretty negative attitude, and I still havent read the Urantia
Book, but I like what I have seen on this list.
zendo-request@lysator.liu.se **
applied Zen Buddhism
*** PAGANISM AND MAGICK, OCCULTISM, SATANISM ***
alt.pagan alt.magick alt.satanism alt.horror.cthulhu, alt.necromicon
alt.religion.sabaean
Temple of Set
- heaps of files on the Temple of Set, including the complete ToS reading list
and a number of documents on internal orders, have recently been uploaded to
slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com /pub/incoming/set
quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/set
I am impressed by what I have seen of the "Setian philosophy", compared to
most occult approaches.
GRASS
Contact: grass-server@wharton.upenn.edu
Purpose: The GRASS (Generic Religions and Secret Societies)
mailing list is a forum for the development of religions and
secret societies for use in role-playing games. Both real-world
and fictional religions and secret societies are covered. GRASS is
an erratic volume, high signal-to-noise, mailing list.
To subscribe, send mail to the CONTACT address with a subject of
SUBSCRIBE Charlie Bucket. (Use your own name instead of Charlie's
though!)
pagan
Contact: pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (Stacey Greenstein)
Purpose: To discuss the religions, philosophy, etc. of paganism.
gcnext.gac.peachnet.edu /pub/wicca
UNSOLICITED BLURB
Divination Web - a MUCK - telnet seismo.soar.cs.cmu.edu 9393
thanks to the efforts of Moonchilde, Fr.Nigris, Bran and who knows who else,
one of the more interesting MU*s i have seen has come into being... there's an
internal Tree of Life structure as well as a 'wheel' which I havent explored,
and a fascinating crowd of people there [whenever theres anyone on].
pagan-request@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (not seen by me)
grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233)
you can telnet to this ftp site, login iscabbs - file descriptions appear
whenever you list the directory contents.
/info/misc [contains files Wicca1, Wicca2, kama (sutra)]
morose.cc.purdue.edu
/pub/topy-online Temple ov Psychick Youth
(submitted by timbomb@cs.uq.oz.au)
Ihavebeen told that these files will soon be lost, but that TOPY / OTO
informationwill be availavle via ftp from netcom.com [unseen]
nic.funet.fi / ftp.funet.fi
/pub/doc/occult - Necronomicon - Voynich MS
slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com
comments by Anon of Ibid:
* This site has lots of Crowley texts and gifs, including the
*complete* texts of the Book of Lies, Book of the Law, Book 4,
Magick in Theory and Practice, Magick Without Tears, and some
(or all) copies of the Equinox. (Crowley's magickal journal/
zine/publication type thing) All this stuff is in directory
/pub/magick/incoming. But there's lots more than Crowley stuff.
Check this site out.
[Back to me:]
Also worth perusing are wilson.on.cis, an online conference with RAWilson as
guest participant, and cybercraft, which contains an exposition of Leary's
8-circuit model. ALSO, copies of the Equinox are retailing where I live
for about $700 (for 10 vols.) at present. You could probably make yourself
same money, and do yourself a favor, and violate some sort of copyright law
by printing copies of the Equinox based on the slopoke material.
In fact the whole slopoke site is just one of the best. They have an old
alt.slack archive (old*slack!), extensive Notes on Kabbala that you won't
find anywhere else, the Principia Discordia.
SEE SUPPLEMENT FOR LISTING OF FILES AVAILABLE FROM SLOPOKE FTP SITE
*** WEIRD RELIGIONS ***
alt.slack alt.discordia alt.religion.kibology
alt.spam coming soon to a newsserver near you
PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA - found all over the place and posted to alt.discordia
every week or so, it seems - transcribed by Druel the Chaotic - send fanmail
to MPYTHON@gnu.ai.mit.edu
Subgenius-request@mc.lcs.mit.edu **
your daily fix of slack
world.std.com
/pub/alt.religion.kibology - archives for the newsgroup
ark.655.Z & kibo-for-prez look interesting, but i can't decompress them
Mail kibo@world.std.com for the kiboheader source code - have an
"X-Kib0-Says:" in all your email - this code is also in the archives.
Church of Spam
newcomers but ambitious - already setting up alt.spam
Spamist archives can be found at quartz.rutgers.edu, /pub/subgenius/spam
contact:
----------------------- io20650@maine.maine.edu ---------------------
*** Daerr - High Spreader of Spam, Church of Spam (Gavin Edition) ***
"I Spam, therefore I am" - Gavin "Spam sects unite under Gavin!"
"We have billions of members, but most of them don't know it yet"
---------------------------------------------------------------------
HailOtis@socpsy.sci.fau.edu
PURPS - The Purple Thunderbolt of Spode - the newsletter of the Otisians.
An excellent compilation.
Contact the Pope, jstevens@world.std.com, for info on the Otisian directory.
Also contact Mal@socpsy.sci.fau.edu for info on the "junk mail" list.
All back issues of Purps archived, quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/journals/Purps.
SLACK@ncsu.edu - home of the Holy Temple of Mass Consumption - don't know
if they send out copies of their (excellent) ezine on request, but it
appears regularly on Usenet anyway, and is archived at quartz.rutgers.edu
/pub/journals/HToMC
houk@cs.athena.mit.edu - Moot News for Modern Man v1, subG stuff
request@fennec.sccsi.com - Worldview / Weltanschauung - weirdness, future
tech, subgenius stuff - read about this in the future-culture FAQ (see
mailing lists) but i have been unable to reach them - anyhow it is
archived at ftp.eff.org, /pub/cud/wview
- had the proper address and lost it! check the FC FAQ
mullet.gu.uwa.edu.au
/pub/text/comment/scriptures.tar.Z
version 1, Travelling Scriptures of the Church of V/R
One final note for now, but only for those who've persisted all the way
through this. If you're interested in these sorts of ideas, but with a
Discordian/SubGenius sort of slant, you might want to try ploughing through
the "Travelling Scriptures of the Church of Virtuality\Reality", or the
Scriptures of V\R for short. Principia Discordia mixed with equal parts of LSD
and MUD. You can get them (there's about 1 Meg of text so far) via anonymous
ftp from:
quartz.rutgers.edu /pub/Scripture/scripture.000 ... scripture.007
ftp.css.itd.umich.edu /zines/Scripture/ (as above)
slopoke.mlb.semi.harris.com /pub/weirdness/ (as above).Z
scripture.000 is the introductory "volume".
quartz.rutgers.edu /pub
get the CONTENTS file to see how *much* there is on here! also,
there's an automatic decompression thingy for any file ending .Z, so you
can ftp-by-mail even *those* ones! /pub/subgenius contains a bob.gif, plus
lots of other SubG stuff; and of course they have the Principia Discordia.
/pub/journals has *heaps* of stuff, FutureCulture, m00se Illuminati (for
info on *them* mail dickson@hartford.bitnet), Purps (the Purple
Thunderbolt of Spode, the Otisian newsletter (see above)), other stuff I
forget right now.
in /pub/subgenius try slack.news [authentic newspaper article featuring
interview with Stang] and prescrip [the complete Subgenius prescriptures].
*** UFOs AND PARANORMAL PHENOMENA ***
alt.alien.visitors alt.paranormal alt.dreams alt.oobe / alt.out-of-body
sci.skeptic
ftp.uni-kl.de /pub/pc/incoming
bgft300a.zip can someone tell me what this is? is Bigfootf working for the
Committee of 300 now?
infopara-request@scicom.alphacdc.com - "Subscribe" in subject line - you will
get info from Paranet Information Service
psi-l listserv%rpicicge@vm1.nodak.edu SUB PSI-l the_usual
contact bgeer%hampvms.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu (not seen by me)
"Our research group is currently investigating reports and sightings of
the animal known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch".
o Leave a private message in electronic mail:
ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill)
Contact with us can be totally anonymous if you wish. We are especially
interested in Ohio sightings but are by no means limited to
investigations in that state. Please, serious responses only." [ie SubGenii:
nothing about Tibetan Yetis from Atlantis] (from the alt.alien.visitors FAQ)
ASLJL@ACAD2.ALASKA.EDU
the Federation is making a starflight drive - email here for details
rutkows@ccu.umanitoba.ca (from the alt.alien.visitors FAQ)
available on an experimental basis by email - "The Swamp Gas Journal
covers a variety of scientific UFO-related phenomena" - various reviews
gvb@acd4.acd.com
maintains a personal archive of alt.alien.visitors traffic since July 13,
1992 - portions available on request - *not* available via ftp as yet
grind.isca.uiowa.edu (128.255.19.233)
you can telnet to this ftp site, login iscabbs - file descriptions appear
whenever you list the directory contents.
/info/paranet [UFO digests from Paranet Information Service]
skeptic%yorkvm1.bitnet@vm1.nodak.edu SUB SKEPTIC your_fullname
(not seen by me)
ftp.uiowa.edu /archive/aav
UFO-RELATED INFORMATION
from the alt.alien.visitors FAQ - an excellent document! possibly the best
reference for ufo-info sources of its size ever prepared - comments here
are from that FAQ
paul.rutgers.edu
The file is pub/UFO/bibliography.Z It has books by author, a second
listing by date, and also the names of prominent authors in the field.
For more information contact: mcgrew@dropout.rutgers.edu (Charles Mcgrew)
phoenix.oulu.fi (130.231.240.17) /pub/ufo_and_space_pics
- phoenix UFO pics
NASA Pics Sites
NOTE: the material at these sites is exceedingly voluminous;
I'd strongly suggest just getting the CD-ROMs instead of attempting
to transfer scores of gigabytes of pix and other material.
To access the online catalog of NASA material, CD-ROMS, et cetera:
telnet nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov
login as "NODIS"
no password
Anonymous ftp sites (five):
nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.10.4]
This is a VAX/VMS box, so you must ftp-login as "anonymous". To get
a dir listing into a file on your system:
ftp> dir [...] file_on_your_system
vab02.larc.nasa.gov
lots of stuff, including Aliens of all colors, and UFO pix (though this
seems to mirror a lot of what's at phoenix.oulu.fi and has some
additional material).
ames.arc.nasa.gov
online copies of what appears to be all NASA's CD-ROMs, and lots of
GIFs, *.img and *.jpg from most (all?) space missions since Apollo.
iris1.ucis.dal.ca
dunno; it appears to be down today (Saturday, 18-July-1992).
ummts.cc.umich.edu {changed to} archive.umich.edu
apparently popular (and, hence, slow). Is supposed to have many
NASA and Voyager data files.
at stycx.hacktic.nl (+31-3404-59551) there is a public account [login repm12,
passwd zebra] for the [anonymous]sharing of MJ12 information
130.231.240.7 /pub/ufo-and-space-pics/alen-47.jpg Roswell alien doll
*** WEIRD PERSONALS AND OTHER UNCLASSIFIEDS ***
[unchanged from HWbE v1.1]
>From donnell@mermaid.micro.umn.edu Thu Oct 29 09:32:01 1992
Two guys here. Judex <Polybenevolent Omni-Father of Truth In Spandex> worships
squids and spreads their "gospel". Your Heinous is a computer fiend and
headbanger extrodinaire. Trade your weirdness for theirs. B}
Judex is also a music and movie trivia buff, and a good source for such.
>From corleyj@GAS.uug.Arizona.EDU Wed Oct 28 11:31:29 1992
In Robert Anton Wilson's _Illuminatus! Trilogy_, he describes
a process used by Discordians, Erisians and Anarchists against
governments, corporations and in general, The Establishment.
This process involves sending many letters from different
parts of the country/world and is called Operation Mindfuck.
With the advent of e-mail, Operation Mindfucks are much more
easily coordinated. One such network can be joined by e-mailing
corleyj@gas.uug.arizona.edu. Networks are set up around
communal responsibility. Everyone agrees to participate in
everyone else's Mindfuck. If A helps B Fuck the IRS, then when
B wants to Fuck the Department of Defense, A is obliged to help.
Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!
>Join the Church of V/R and help save the world in your spare time!
Write Larysa.Fabok@launchpad.unc.edu for information.
and look for #cIRCle on IRC!
*** STRANGE INDIVIDUALS ***
alt.net.personalities
alt.folklore.computers has something like a 1000-person
whos.who.on.the.net list. I don't know if it is archived but it
reappears there periodically
from HWbE v1.1:
>From: The Saint of Self Abuse
I dunno if it counts but we have a really vocal, extreme right-wing
paranoid fundamentalist Christian who got a Bboard named after him out
here at CMU. He frequently posts more than four posts in a day and we
already have somebody at MIT mocking the guy and it may be a national
thing because this guy is 100% all-American Christian fundie right wing
nutso.....
Anyway, the Bboard is assocs.collegerepublicans.intolerant_assholes
@ andrew.cmu.edu and our "friend" is Dave Byler: db7n @ andrew.cmu.edu
He may not be weird enough for this list, but he responds to
EVERYTHING and claims such things as:
1. There is an International Communist Conspiracy
2. Sen. Macarthy was right
3. Al Gore plans to save the earth by depopulating it
4. Liberalism = Nazism
5. You're all going to Hell
Maybe he is weird enough....
idealord@dorsai.com - home of IdEAl OrdEr Psychic TV
There's a blurb for IdEAL OrdEr which is supposed to go here but I dont seem
to have it to hand! Basically IdEAl OrdEr allegedly and mysteriously interfere
with the blinking rates of various TV personalities, mostly newsreaders but
they also 'zapped' the final US presidential debate. They also have an 'art'
aspect which I don't know about. Jeff harrington of IdEAl OrdEr seems to be on
just about every interesting mailing list there is; so although I cant vouch
for the reality of the phenomenon I can say that IO is definitely hip to a lot
of things....
anyone know the home of nU wORLD oRDER Psychic Usenet?
carasso@inference.com - dfqfrby@shoes.BELL-ATL.COM, jecoleb@eos.ncsu.edu
& millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU all have personal archives of some of the best of
carasso, and probably the man himself does too
- dont know what carasso's doing - I dont read talk.bizarre at all, but there
was a crossposted thread in alt.religion.kibology the other day with "CARASSO:
SOMETHING SOMETHING" in the subject line, so I presume he's still out there..
pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu - "Public Enemy #1" - the guy who earned the sysop of
Nyx a visit from the Secret Service. you should be able to read about it at
slopoke ftp site, hmm, i think in /pub/weirdness/secserv
hplaa02.cern.ch
/netcel - Net celebrities archive
*** PHILOSOPHY,THINKING ABOUT THINKING,ETC ***
talk.philosophy.misc
-Am. Philos. Assoc. telnet atl.calstate.edu or telnet 130.150.102.33
offers: BBS for APA. (Login: apa)
belief-l (not seen by me) - send subscribe belief-l your_name to
listserv@brownvm.brown.edu
belief-l
doubts.napoleon?? [if not enquire sci.skeptic] an 1819 article explaining
why Napoleon might not have existed
derrida listserv@cfrvm.bitnet subscribe derrida full_name
(not seen by me)
fnord-l@UBVM.bitnet (I think - dont know internet address) - New Ways of
Thinking List - created as forum to discuss the ideas of Wilson, Leary,
Alli and the like, but to my mind it has degenerated somewhat
yo! owing to discussions with a source who shall remain anonymous, I have a
new respect for fnord-l, as 'net performance art'...
hegel@VILLVM.BITNET ????
lojban-list-request@snark.thyrsus.com (not seen by me)
why bother with esperanto?
Purpose: To use, discuss, and contribute to the development of the
constructed human language called Lojban (known in earlier
versions as Loglan). Lojban has a grammar based on predicate
logic, and vocabulary built from the six most widely spoken human
languages. It is intended as a tool for experimental linguistics,
as a medium for communication with computers, and as a possible
international auxiliary language.
Lojban-list is an unmoderated mail reflector. New subscribers are
asked to send their postal mailing addresses as well, so that they
can be placed on the mailing list of The Logical Language Group,
Inc., a non-profit organization. The postal mailing list provides
materials that are useful in learning about the language.
Lojban-list and LLG, Inc. are in no way affiliated with The Loglan
Institute, Inc., or with James Cooke Brown, the founder of Loglan.
Subject: INFO: Mailinglist for Neuro Linguistic Programming
From: citrus!vector0!jon@csusac.ecs.csus.edu (Dazed N. Confused)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 13:13:05 PST