Kent Fackenthall

  • Oh CBC, Please, Don’t

    Oh CBC, Please, Don’t

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    From the article, Current, former CBC employees condemn corporation’s branded-content initiative – from ironically enough The Globe and Mail – a company name-checked in the article as being one of many “private news organizations [that] have developed robust branded content initiatives. Hundreds of current and former staff, including Peter Mansbridge, Linden MacIntyre, Gillian Findlay, Bob…

  • NIN Modular Mask

    NIN Modular Mask

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    Nine Inch Nails presents the NIN Modular Face Mask System. Also known as the INASAAIBIS* mask, this heavy duty mask features a unique interchangeable message system that allows you to customize your mask to match your mood. Defiant? Just getting by? Provocative? You decide. *I‘m Not A Selfish Asshole And I Believe In Science -nin.com…

  • Ethics of the Attention Economy

    Ethics of the Attention Economy

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    Found this article, Ethics of the Attention Economy: The Problem of Social Media Addiction, via Cal Newport’s post, A Modest Proposal: Deweaponizing Network Effects. It’s a great read – I mean, you know – if academic papers on business, ethics, the internet and social media are your kind of thing. I can dig it. “In…

  • Rudderless and Loving It

    Rudderless and Loving It

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    I was reading an article over at the Atlantic, The Prophecies of Q – this stuff is remotely interesting, in a car-crash kind of way. One part struck me: In a Miami coffee shop last year, I met with a man who has gotten a flurry of attention in recent years for his research on conspiracy…

  • Physiological Resonance

    Physiological Resonance

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    Theres a 90+ acre area of river flats about a 10 minute walk from my house. It’s land that is for all intents and purposes uninhabitable – it floods every spring. There’s a road on it and nice access to the Nashwaak River. There are fields on it where hay was harvested. For over 10…

  • Asleep/Awake

    Asleep/Awake

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    I am currently reading Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Autumn (part of what’s considered (‘The Seasons Quartet’), it’s a book of many short chapters describing relatively everyday things – premise being it’s a ‘letter’ to his as yet unborn daughter, due in a few months. In the chapter titled ‘Beds’ he writes: “The bed is placed in…