Month: November 2011
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Siri Is Now Your Universal Remote
Happy Monday. Everything just got way different now because the hackers at Applidium figured out the format Siri uses to communicate with Apple servers, then Pete Lamoica developed SiriProxy, which, as you see below, enables us to control whatever we can think of…
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When Does “Intent” Matter?
Here’s what readers of SomethingBurning have sent me so far. Intent matters: “When you guess wrong” “When it’s pretty much too late” “When you’re broke” “On Valentine’s Day?” “When there’s nothing you can really do about it.” “When talking about race” “When you don’t know they know” …
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MTV Hive Presents: Zambri
Last year, the band Zambri performed a live show in my office. Now check them out on MTV Hive! And they just hit the MTV Music Meter! Zambri “Glossolalia” EP by kaninerecords From MTV Hive: Just because Jessica and Cristi Jo Zambri share a last name doesn’t mean the sisters are always on the same…
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Recordsetter: The New World Record For World Records
I swear I’m not pimpin this book because I’m in it. Ok, I am, a little. But for reals, the founders of Recordsetter, Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson, embody (and keep track of) the best of the best of Millennial culture. For as long as most of us can remember, a spot in the Guinness Book of World…
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Sure, You Can’t Make Everything Yourself
A former boss once told me to let others execute our best ideas. “We don’t have to. Execution is not where scale and margin are,” he said. He was right that we didn’t have to execute our own ideas. So my team and I watched others botch some of our best ideas. And botch and…
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When We Publish, Broadcast, Forward, Share…
The work is never complete, which is a good thing. It was a central theme in the work of artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and one we take with us and apply as writers, developers, producers, programmers. – Felix Gonzalez-Torres Here’s a “portrait” of Gonzalez-Torres’ partner, who happened to share my name. After Ross Laycock’s death in…
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Back To School Dress
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How To Win & How To Lose
From the bathroom wall of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum…