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The Technology Issue

Tech-archy

After you read this article, we are not responsible for how and when you injure yourself or anyone else. You fucking morons.

Photo Assistant: Marisa Abaza

OBLIGATORY DISCLAIMER:

What follows contains details of how to create very bad things that are extremely dangerous and probably illegal wherever you live. DO NOT attempt to re-create anything you see or read here unless you want to go to jail or die. If you blow someone’s face off and try to blame it on “an article in

magazine,” we will be very disappointed. To be unmistakably clear: After you read the next few pages, this publication is not responsible for how and when you injure yourself or anyone else at any point in time from now until infinity. You fucking morons.

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Anarchist Cookbook

Anarchist Cookbook

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Anarchist Cookbook V

Cookbook

*Just to reiterate: From here on out, any use of the word “Cookbook” refers to this version and not Powell’s original.

MEGA SMOKE BOMB

Ingredients: sugar, saltpeter (aka potassium nitrate), a regulative heat source, a pan you don’t mind ruining, a container for the solidified mixture, matches or fuses

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TENNIS-BALL BOMB

Ingredients: tennis balls, strike-anywhere matches, a sharp knife or saw, duct or packing tape, sandpaper

“DOWN THE ROAD” MISSILE

Ingredients: a can of hair spray or other flammable aerosol, Scotch tape, matches, a BB or pellet gun (BBs are preferable)

BLOWGUN

Ingredients: yarn, a pencil, a sewing needle, a two-to-three-foot PVC or aluminum pipe about half an inch in diameter

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NAPALM

Watch videotaped proof that we did all of this foolish shit on our new

 series at VBS.TV in April. Oh, and a thousand thankses to Bayard Studios for being nice and crazy enough to let us blow stuff up inside their space.