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Of course, we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face; more to the point, our surprise actually derives from our wondering why we are not wondering why that plunger is on Jon's face, and in that question lies the particular anxiety currently inscribing our interactions, both on-screen and off-screen, today.

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Fishing for Further SuggestionsCultureNet faculty are always bending the spines of books and scrolling through online publications - new and old - that speak to our shared interest in the ways that technology gets around to shaping us and us technology. A few titles recently traded between CNET faculty include:Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, Steel (1997)Andrew Feenberg's Transforming Technology

Wow ! The inaugural Dorkbot Vancouver meeting was fantastic, a great turnout with a highly eclectic group of individuals. Thanks to Alex Beim and Clive Goodinson for starting the Vancouver chapter of Dorkbot and to Jeremy for putting the word out.

There were sculptors, painters, writers, educators, graphic designers, bio-information visualizers, Flash gurus, Processing pros, RFID hand implant briefcase opening people, crazy concert glow ball creators, WI-FI phone network hackers, interactive narrative theorists, tactile computing conceptualists, RFID based spritzing dolphin creators, audio quilt fabricators, corporate branding wizards and me (heavy backpack computational linguistics guy). Quite a few connections to Emily Carr and to the SIAT program at SFU.