Index
CONTENTS
SECTION I: CYBERPUNK... WHY?? OKAY-- HOW???
Chapter 1/ page 25
CYBERPUNK: A CHALLENGING POSTMODERN LIFESTYLE!
Why Bother? Big Wins! (and Unexpected Smallstuff)
Chapter 2/ page 27
ACHIEVING CYBERPUNK
Being It or Faking It
Chapter 3/ page 29
A STYLE GUIDE TO THE CYBERTYPES
Recognizing Them and Fitting In
SECTION II: CYBERPUNK... KNOWING ABOUT IT!
Chapter 4/ page 39
BUILDING YOUR CYBER WORD POWER
Part 1: A Dictionary of Terminally Hip Jargon
and Useful Expressions
Part2: A Cyberpunk Phrasebook,
with Hip Conversational Ploys for
Winning Without a Clue
Chapter 5/ page 77
CHEATCARDS FOR BOOKS YOU SHOULD HAVE READ
But Didn't
Chapter 6/ page 83
CHEATCARDS FOR MOVIES/TV YOU DIDN'T SEE
But Should Know About
Chapter 7/ page 91
ONLINE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT
Even if You Never Go Online/
SECTION III: CYBERPUNK... DOING IT!
Chapter 8/ page 95
ART OF THE HACK FOR BEGINNERS
A Child's First Book of Piracy, Intrusion & Espionage
Advice to Newbies
Haqr Mind, Haqr Smarts
Social Engineering for Fun and Profit
Chapter 9/ page 101
THE HARDWARE/SOFTWARE YOU ACTUALLY NEED
Or How to Fake It
Computers, Modems, Encryption Programs Plus Terminally Hip
Extras: Laptops, Heads-up Displays, Personal Communicators,
Pagers... Or Realistic Balsa Mock-ups to Please Your Budget
Chapter 10/ page 109
YOUR ONLINE PERSONA
How to Win Friends, Score Information,
& Intrigue the Apposite Sex/
Starting Out Right
Writing a Kewl dot.plan, Designing a Non-lame dot.sig
Location, Location, Location-- What Your Eddress Says About YOU.
Beyond Attitude-- What???
Netiquette Art of the Flame
Online Poise: Cool in a MUD, Uncowed in a MOO
Chapter 11/ page 115
HOW TO AVOID BANKRUPTCY
Sorry, that's just a little joke
Chapter 12/ page 117
WHERE TO HANG
Finding the Cool Places in Cyberspace
Will the Net Kill Hacking?
An Introductory Rant
IRCs, BBSes, MUDs, MOOs and MUSEs, Special Interest Groups,
With a Special Word About alt.sex.bestiality
SECTION IV: CYBERPUNK... THE SCENE
Chapter 13/ page 125
FACE TIME
Pleased to Meat You?
Hacking Your Face2face IRL Persona
The Mandatory Black Leather Jacket
Leather Trousers?
Boots, Hair
Wearable Electronics: What's Chic, What's Rancid?
And Buttons/Badges/Insignia, With a Special Warning About
StarFleet Gear
Street Cred and Martial Arts
Chapter 14/ page 131
TERMINALLY HIP WIDGETS
And High-Tech ToyZ
Fun With Your Cellular Phone
One Hundred Uses for Your Laser Pointer
Laminator 2: Identity Hacking
Why NOT to Buy a Stun Gun or a Nerve-Gas Dispenser or a TASER
Chapter 15/ page 135
GAMES!
Part 1: Video Games & Computer Games
Fast-twitch Muscle Games, Exploration Games,
Weird or X-Rated Games, Slacker Computer Games
Part 2: Offline Games
Magic, Hacker, The Glass Bead Game, DD&D
Chapter 16/ page 139
CYBERPUNK LIFESTYLE HINTS
Trends, Faves and Hates/
Interior Decorating Tips and Stylin Furnishings, Amusing Potted
Plants, Stickers, Posters and Logos
What to Put on Top of Your Computer Monitor and Why
Nerd Comic Strips
Haqr Basic Diet, Stunt Foods & Intimidating Soft Drinks
Music That Doesn't Suck
Squeaky/Cuddly Toys With Really Good Rationalizations
Rubik's Hypercubes or Rubik's Dodecahedrons or Rubik's Other
Strange Shapes and Hi-Tech Intellectual Adult Transformers
In the Shape of Interlocked Rings, Chains, Blocks, Helices, and
Platonic Solids That Shapeshift into Other Configurations of Rings,
Chains, Etc Etc But Only If You Do Them Exactly Right, Which Is Very Difficult Or
Impossible, but Which Gather Dust, Take Up Lots of Room On Your Monitor, and Taunt
and Sneer at You Every Time You Look at Them.
SECTION V: CYBERPUNK... THE INNER SCENE
Chapter 17/ page 147
CYBERPUNK SECRETS REVEALED!
(Yes, Just as We Promised-- REVEALED!)
Why Cyberpunks Seldom Have Their Organs Pierced
The Real Reason Why Cyberpunks Need to Encrypt Their Email
What Cyberpunks Are Doing at 3 AM in That Dumpster
Why Cyberpunks Avoid Altered States
Coping With Neurotoxins
Why Some Cyberpunks Love Star Trek Even Though It Sucks,
When Cyberpunks Always Diss What is Lame and Useless
What Cyberpunks Actually Admire, and Why
Secret Cyberpunk Handshaking, Signals and Head Motions
Chapter 18/ page 153
CYBERPUNK: THE INNER GAME
The Tao of Punk; The Secret Dancing Masters of Cyber; And
Everything You Wanted to Know About Cyber But Were Too
Lame To Ask
The Hidden Hierarchy of Cyberpunk Revealed, from Bottom to Top
Chapter 19/ page 157
CYBERPUNK: THE PARENTAL-DISCRETION SPECIAL
Sects and Politics... and Recipes
Disclaimer and Waiving of All Rights
Part 1: The Joy of Sects
Part 2: Politics
Part 3: S x
SECTION VI: CYBERPUNK... ARE YOU CYBER ENOUGH?
Chapter 20/ page 175
IT'IS AN INTELLIGENCE TEST!
Cyberpunk Skull-Tweakers and Fun Fare/
The All-Cyber Cryptic Crossword Puzzle
Name That Nym!
Three-Letter-Acronyms From H.E.C.K. Cryptic Crossword
Twisters and Max Headroom Memorial Rebuses
Chapters 21/ 22/, and Of Course 23/ page 185
BOTTOM LINE TIME
Making It or Faking It
Cyberpunk Review
THE FINAL EXAM
It's Not True/False,
We Don't Grade on the Curve,
Stop Sniveling
THE OFFICIAL CYBERPUNK HIPNESS CHECKLIST
You Won't Like This Either
But It's for Your Own Good, Punk.
APPENDIX A: page 188
Cyberpunk Valorized:
Careers Under Deconstruction
The Semiosis of Black Leather,
Chrome, Mirrorshades
and Modems
APPENDIX B: page 190
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