"And we humbly dedicate this issue to those who have been killed by the ongoing violence in Iraq, whose numbers will never be known, whose remains may never be found, but whose traces should not be lost to history."

"If the telecommunications and entertainment industries (and countless consumers) are now enthralled with all things mobile, the pieces collected here underscore that mobility is first and foremost a social phenomenon, one with long and troubled histories."

"Likewise the computer you are now using will one day crash or become obsolete, perhaps taking its prodigious memory with it, an eventuality that suggests the alarming impermanence of digital media while it hints mischievously at our own mortality."

"The rubric of 'perception' offers a convenient throughline by which to weave together a number of fields, including geography, cognitive science, film studies, art history, philosophy, and the digital arts."

"The final project of this issue, 'ThoughtMesh,' continues our goal of including in each issue lively 'tools to think with,' projects that serves as springboards to collaboration or interaction rather than as mostly 'finished' pieces."

"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought the Vietnam syndrome full-circle as those memories 'lost' in the first Gulf War come back to the surface with a vengeance."

"Although we are now only occasionally creating in-house collaborative projects for the journal, Vectors continues to offer a platform for experimenting with the forms and potentials of online scholarship."