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Eddress Says
About YOU.?+ Beyond Attitude-- What????+ Netiquette?+ Art of the Flame?+ Online Poise: Cool in a MUD, Uncowed in a MOO
Chapter 11/ HOW TO AVOID BANKRUPTCY?/Sorry, that's just a little joke/
Chapter 12/ 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/ 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/ 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/ GAMES!
+ Video Games & Computer Games
Fast-twitch Muscle Games, Exploration Games,?Weird or X-Rated Games, Slacker Computer Games?+ Offline Games
Magic, Hacker, The Glass Bead Game, DD&D
Chapter 16/ 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/ 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/ 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/ CYBERPUNK: THE PARENTAL-DISCRETION SPECIAL?/Sects and Politics... and Recipes/
+ Disclaimer and Waiving of All Rights?+ Declaration of Age >> 21 and An Anti-Suicide Pact

*****SECTION VI: CYBERPUNK... ARE YOU CYBER ENOUGH?*****
Chapter 20/ 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
Puzzles, Twisters and Max Headroom Memorial Rebuses
Chapters 21/ 22/, and Of Course 23/ BOTTOM LINE TIME?/Making It or Faking It/
A Cyberpunk Review to Prepare you, and then
*****************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.
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APPENDIX A: Cyberpunk Valorized:?Careers Under Deconstruction
The Semiosis of Black Leather, Chrome, Mirrorshades?and Modems
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APPENDIX B: ASCII Charts
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? THE
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? CYBERPUNK
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? FAKEBOOK
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? By St. Jude, R.U.Sirius, and Bart Nagel
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+ SECTION I: +
+ CYBERPUNK...WHY?? +
+ Okay... HOW??? +
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Chapter 1:
CYBERPUNK: A CHALLENGING POSTMODERN LIFESTYLE CHOICE
Why Bother? Big Wins! (and