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Fringe Culture

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Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/the_magazine
A bimonthly alternative e-zine satirizing and subverting mainstream capitalist culture. Includes joke advertisements, subscription service, archived issues, and campaign statements advancing the anarchist cause.
The Anarchvies
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/anarchives-a/
"'An edgy anarchist 'zine that gleefully attacks consumerist cyber-hype and ruthlessly critiques mass media'i and i publish sporadically, and radically, determined to free the minds of i and i" Published 1994 to 1997.
Blather
http://www.blather.net/
" 'Blather' is a very strange but intriguing Irish webzine that's dedicated to 'paranormal agent-provocateurism'. The juxtaposition of X-File style conspiracy theories with Irish cynicism might seem unlikely, but the result is oddly compelling. " You can also subscribe to get this e-zine through email, although half the fun is looking at the wonderfully designed web page.
Body Modification Ezine
http://www.bmezine.com/
"The Web's single most dynamically authoritative overview and underview of body-modification culture's many manifestations and milieux. Access to some areas require subscription."
Cannabis Culture
http://www.cannabisculture.com/
"The magazine of Canada's Cannabis Culture. Covers all aspects of marijuana and hemp, in Canada and around the world."
Conspiracy Nation
http://www.shout.net/~bigred/cn.html
News articles about supposed conspiracies, conspiracy theories and government cover-ups.
The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
http://deoxy.org/deoxy.htm
The Exile
http://www.exile.ru/
Alternative magazine about the seedy and dangerous side of Moscow.
Factsheet Five - Electric
http://www.factsheet5.com/
"Your home for 'zines, zines, fanzines, perzines and the like."
Notes From Underground
http://www.xmission.com/~flubber/
"A carnivalesque zine with underground surf and garage music reviews, freaks, fiction, editorials, bugs, and rockets, Notes From Underground is a free-wheelin', uncensored, spiteful, anti-social rant."
OAT
http://www.tao.ca/
An anarchist publication from the UK. Requires login which is free.
Octopus Motor
http://www.phobe.com/octopusmotor/
"Easier than spittin' out a black jellybean...a literary tide pool of humor, one-eyed marshmallow bunnies, bad puns, tall tales, bad poetry, Latin lessons, nonsense, small echinoderms and algae..."
Picklebird: Los Angeles Alternative Art Magazine
http://www.picklebird.com/
This e-zine focuses on alternative art: "outsider, contemporary folk, pop, naive, lowbrow, visionary or intuitive." Regional work is also featured.
Public Illumination Magazine
http://www.mondorondo.com/pim/
"PIM offers its readers tasty tidbits in words and pictures on a given topic each issue, without advertising."
WebToday
http://www.888webtoday.com/
"The daily news alternative to the R.I.M. (Reality Impaired Media) featuring UNreported and UNDERreported news and information. Christian, constitutional, and conservative perspective, with no room for racism or anti-Semitism."

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