 Re: Don't
I suppose some clarification should be made.
The original, the "Anarchist's Cookbook", was a print publication that was written and pressed in the sixties. It started the trend of so called cookbooks filled with incorrect an unconfirmed information.
Some years later, sometime in the late eighties or early ninetys when computers and digital communications were coming of age, the "Anarchy Cookbook" (note the subtle title change) was compiled by Exodus and later the Jolly Roger. The early versions of this were simply relabeled text files that Exodus had copied and sometimes slightly reworded, then stamped his name on. They were posted to BBSes and newsgroups all over the place, sometimes together and sometimes one at a time. Later the Jolly Roger rouned up all of the Exodus texts, copied and added many more of his own, and released the next version of the Anarchy Cookbook. This one was usually distributed all at once in a ZIP file containing some 200 or 250 text files.
Much later, one Louis Helm compiled the Jolly Roger cookbook into one massive MS Word document, with some shoddy clipart, a few new additions, and some grainy photographs in some of the featherbrained articles. For the most part, however, the content of the electronic Anarchy Cookbook has remained the same - Only the presentaion has changed.
For the most part it's bullshit, though. Shortly after the electronic release of the Anarchy Cookbook several dozen copycat texts appeared on the boards and web. There were such classics as the Terrorist Hanbook and the Big Book of Mischief (whose very title was misspelled in the file, as I recall) written in this era. Large sections of these are not only directly influenced by the Anarchy Cookbook, but sometimes directly copied as well. These, too, are universally accepted as false texts.
~Zero
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2002-11-03, 22:14
