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For this fifth anniversary issue, Geez is going digital! Just kidding. This issue affirms our commitment to remaining an “offline oasis” while acknowledging the benefits of technology – granted it’s used wisely.

• 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