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As machines do more work for us, we do less; we’re less capable on our own. As machines store and organize more, we get sloppy, forget our friends’ phone number, birthday, heartfelt concerns. Maybe this gleeful step into virtual reality is the easy road of cyber purgatory. We’re not dead, but we’re not really living either.

• Regulars
• Difficult technology is rewarding
  Aiden Enns 6
• Letters
  Various 8
• Call me a fence-sitter
  Nicolas Klassen 14
• Culturosities
• The material culture that defines us: The 'like' button
  Julie Beman 15
• Old geezers: The Luddites
  Anna Bowen 16
• Artists commit air-raid on war
  Aaron Levere 17
• A northern perspective on the Ground- Zero Mosque
  Aaron Levere 18
• Anarchist Christians unite online
  BeckyGarrison 19
• Cyper Utopia
• How Facebook helps me be a stay-at-home dad and community activist
  Ariah Fine 21
• Imperfect prose on thursdays
  Emily Wierenga 23
• Hope for a fake life
  Tyler Olson 24
• Electronic hitchhiker
  David Griffin Brown 25
• I long to see you: 2 Timothy by email
  Shannon Blake 28
• I Google banana bread
  Carrie S. Martin 29
• When is activism slacktivism*?
  Various 31
• Cyber Dystopia
• High tech grief
  Lizz Bryce 34
• Technology, half-chewed
  Doreen Dodgen-Magee 35
• New platforms for old oppressions
  Jenny Henkelman and Cynara Geissler 36
• Technology hip-check
  Lance Spoke Spurr 40
• Thelowercaseletter"i"
  Michelle Elrick 41
• Cyberforgiveness
  Sarah Stankorb 43
• Righteousness in the Age of Technology
  Riparian Church 44
• Imagine while plummeting
  Sam McLoughlin 45
• Newtopia
• The key(board) to a better life?
  Peggy Trendell-Jensen 48
• Keeping the pitbull off the bed
  Mandy Smith 49
• Albert Borgmann on taming technology
  David J. Wood 50
• Seven criteria for the adoption of new technology
  Will Braun 56
• Simple thoughts forengaging technology
  Aiden Enns 59
• Kids know how to help
  Kathleen Wilker 60
• Shit and toil
  Kerrie Miller 61
• Experiments
• Sew by bike
  Eva Klassen 64
• Ghetto life without acomputer
  Anonymous 65
• Building materials speakfor themselves
  Eva Klassen 65
• Go fast to fare well
  Beth Malena 66
• Band canoes gig to gig
  Eva Klassen 66
• Civil Disobedience
• Plane Stupid
  Geez Staff 68
• Streets are for feet
  Geez Staff 68
• Guerilla haiku
  Geez Staff 69
• Protest the Pope
  Geez Staff 69
• Latvia’s cyber Robin Hoodarrested
  Geez Staff 70
• News
• UN sends female task force to Haiti to curb rape epidemic 71
• Guelph communityprotests Sikh temple 71
• Trendy makeup companycomes clean – sort of 72
• Community seeks bigbucks to stop porn 72
• Japanese archbishop visits New York, calls for abolition ofnuclear weapons 73
• Reviews
• The Routes of Man:How Roads are Changing the World andthe Way We Live Today
  Julienne Isaacs 74
• The Peep Diaries:How We’re Learning to Love WatchingOurselves and Our Neighbours
  Kyle Armstrong 74
• You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto
  Kurt Armstrong 75
• Into Eternity
  Angela Wallace 76
• Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
  Darren Day 77