The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions [CD-ROM]

Joseph Matheny (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1999

The account of renegade researchers who broke the dimensional barriers and were pursued by the "powers that be" because of it. Told through the person of Joseph Matheny who discovered their story years later. Version 2.0 of the Incunabula CD ROM includes both volumes of the Incunabula Papers Digital, plus bonus audio and video tracks. Mac or Windows compatible Internet enhanced E-Book on CD ROM.

Editorial Reviews

Review

...Ong's Hat had befriended her and inspired her to create certain games without her realizing it. -- Kate Hambrecht, Jane Magazine (April 2003)

...a story that will surely be debated over a century from now. -- Fringewire Review

Few "conspiracy theories" are quite as bizarre as the legend of Ong's Hat. -- Technocult Spring 2001

This is a masterpiece of eBook creation. Interactive, colorful, masterful. -- CNET Network October 1999

You've got your chaos; sex magick; applied quantum physics; shadow conspiracy; crypto-palaeontology and enlightenment... -- Disinfo.com Ong's Hat Dossier

About the Author

Joseph Matheny is a interactive media theorist and technologist who works on the bleeding edge of media and convergence.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 160 pages
• Publisher: eXe; 1 edition (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0967489016
• ISBN-13: 978-0967489018
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,889,223 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Some may say that my career spans varied fields and that is true enough, however I would add that I have a multi-discipline approach that is necessary in the modern age. As Robert Heinlein once said, "Specialization is for insects".

Some of the things I have achieved as an inventor, creator, marketer, product manager, CEO, CTO, writer and artist include: Playing a role in establishing and evangelizing standards and practices such as CD ROM, PDF, DVD, XML, RSS, Podcasting, ARG and digital video. I am an inventor . I am a published author of screenplays, white papers, technology, sci-fi, marketing and gaming books. My pioneering work in Transmedia is chronicled in the University level textbook: Legend-Tripping Online: Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (University Press of Mississippi (May 17, 2011)
Specialties

I have also been the executive producer and originator of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival Podcast the first film festival to podcast from the event, the executive producer/director of the Los Angles Film Festival podcast and the ABA All Star Game podcast. I was one of the two founders/curators of the Greylodge Podcasting Company, a Independent film review site covered on MSNBC, Wall Street Journal and Boing-Boing, and the executive producer of Alterati, an on-line culture zine and a founder of Piltolite/Hukilau. I have beena podcast editor at TheNervousBreakdown.com. I have staged and orchestrated very successful, large scale, mass media Alternate Reality Game/Transmedia style projects since the mid-80s, utilizing print, phone, fax, email, Internet, advertising, video, film, audio, CD ROM, DVD, and on-demand media. My work has been featured on CBS Marketwatch, CNN, CNET TV, Kiplinger's, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, NHK, MTV, PBS, LA Times, Clear Channel Radio, BBC, MSNBC, Boing-Boing, and many other weekly newspapers, trade magazines, local and regional radio, television and newspapers.

To view my professional resume (i.e. what I've done professionally in the software world) request a connection on LinkedIn

You may email me at jmatheny AT hush.nym.com

Here is some of my family background.

Artistic Statement

Joseph Matheny is a pseudonym used by a plethora of evolutionary intelligence agents throughout the galaxy. Like Monty Cantsin, Luther Blisset or Saint Germain, you never know when or where he's going to pop up. He is rumored to never sleep, moonlight as a technology consultant, daylight as a fireproof vampire, live by the motto: Non Serviam! and almost never fail to leave a ticking time bomb behind.

Joseph is a "Hypermedium" who believes that Occam's Razor is not a disposable. Joseph Matheny is a Curator, Contributor and Producer of seditious sites like Greylodge and Alterati. Joseph seems to be a verb. Joseph Matheny is an Internet litterbug, leaving flotsam and jetsam all over, like Ong's Hat, to hopefully act like a message in a bottle. If you read it, you will be infected. If you are infected you will be InFicted. If you are InFicted, you will get UnFucted. Meanwhile, Joseph is holding himself hostage until all his demands are met.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ong's Hat: A Moorish Orthodox View, July 28, 2002

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Bishop Sotemohk Agehananda Beeyayelel "+Sotem... (Ong's Hat, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions (CD-ROM)

Before the continents assumed their present shape, countless ages before intelligent protohominids walked erect and began using tools, aeons before alphabets and settled agriculture were new-fangled things, Ong's Hat - a now deserted village in southernmost New Jersey (USA) - was fated to become the most important point in all of space and time, the nexus of uncountable quanta of probability matrices joining at the confluence of those temporal rivers known as past, present and future.

Since the event known as "the Opening of the Gate" occurred at Ong's Hat these thirty-four years ago, much of the paltry amount of writing on that cosmic shifting of gears has been of an intendedly "disinformational" character, for reasons made apparent in this volume. Dr. Matheny and others have sifted through a mass of such spurious reportage to uncover neat and naked the truth of what occurred, why it was made to occur and the continuing consequences for all of humankind.

Dr. Joseph Matheny and his collaborators have produced a breathtakingly scholarly work in writing "The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions," which is a tour-de-force not only of the Ong's Hat incident, but of quantum mechanics, temporal theory and the systematic theology of Moorish Orthodoxy as well.

I wholeheartedly and unreservedly recommend this masterwork to all serious students of the Ong's Hat phenomena.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ong's Hat, New Jersey: An enigma inside a mystery, August 1, 2002

By 

William Courson (Montclair, NJ, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions (CD-ROM)

There are few conspiracy theories quite as enchanting as the story of the abandoned village of Ong's Hat, New Jersey and the happenings there in the late 1960's-early 1970's. The account involves renegade Princeton researchers, lesbian anarchists, Paramus runaways and Chaos theoreticians who together achieved the most important scientific breakthrough of humankind's history: the ability to travel - instantaneously - to the remotest parts of the universe, perhaps even into other universes inhabiting other dimensions.

Narrated by Joseph Matheny, an investigative reporter who - following up cryptic leads on the internet - discovered the OH story decades later, this must surely rank among the most unusual Alternative History works ever published.

Various related accounts of the Ong's Hat commune-cum-research facility have been posted in the form of the "Incunabula Papers" since the earliest days of BBS's and the internet. Irrespective of the veracity of these accounts, the mythos is of great historical and sociological interest for that reason alone.

The elusiveness of the Incunabula's authors has given rise to a host of theories that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a "media hoax," or a vastly exaggerated account of actual events there. There is, however, a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection. That 'dark side' is amply hinted at, if not expressly revealed, in this fascinating volume.

Dive into the depths of "Alternative History" with this fascinating work that is a pure pleasure to read.

I strongly recommend it to all serious students of social ephemera. It probably wouldn't hurt physicists to give it a gander as well.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ong's Hat, New Jersey: An enigma inside a mystery inside a conundrum, November 25, 2006

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William Courson "William Courson" (Montclair, New Jersey USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and Other Gateways to New Dimensions (CD-ROM)

There are few conspiracy theories quite as engaging as the story of the abandoned village of Ong's Hat, New Jersey and the happenings there in the late 1960's-early 1970's.

This spellbinding account involves renegade Princeton researchers, lesbian anarchists, Paramus runaways and chaos theoreticians who together achieved the most important scientific breakthrough of humankind's history: the ability to travel - instantaneously - to the remotest parts of the universe, perhaps even into other universes inhabiting other dimensions.

Narrated by Joseph Matheny, an investigative reporter who - following up cryptic leads on the internet - discovered the OH story decades later, this must surely rank among the most unusual Alternative History works ever published.

Various related accounts of the Ong's Hat commune-cum-research facility have been posted in the form of the "Incunabula Papers" since the earliest days of BBS's and the internet. Irrespective of the veracity of these accounts, the mythos is of great historical and sociological interest for that reason alone.

The elusiveness of the Incunabula's authors has given rise to a host of theories that the Ong's Hat legend is nothing but a "media hoax," or a vastly exaggerated account of actual events there. There is, however, a dark side to this story that has never been fully told, which may help explain their circumspection. That 'dark side' is amply hinted at, if not expressly revealed, in this fascinating volume.

Dive into the depths of "Alternative History" with this fascinating work that is a pure pleasure to read.

I strongly recommend this work to all serious students of social ephemera. It probably wouldn't hurt physicists, pharmacists and theologians to give it a gander as well.