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- Professor William J. Mitchell, pioneer of urban computing, RIP
- Live radio interview with Mark this morning 6/12/2010 10:30am PT
- Jamiroquai: Where's he now? Pimpin' instant ramen in Japan
| Professor William J. Mitchell, pioneer of urban computing, RIP Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:14 PM PDT    Professor William J. Mitchell, director of MIT's Design Laboratory and pioneering Smart Cities research group, died yesterday after a battle with cancer. Professor Mitchell was a brilliant and big thinker who wrote a series of seminal books, including Me++, City of Bits, and e-topia, about the intersection of humanity, networked intelligence, and the built environment. "Bill was a designer's designer and visionary about the impact of new media on human experience," says professor Ken Goldberg, director of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media, to which Mitchell was an advisor. "He was incredibly prolific and will leave a lasting impact on generations of designers and thinkers." CaringBridge: Bill Mitchell "Bill Mitchell, former dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, dies at age 65"   |
| Live radio interview with Mark this morning 6/12/2010 10:30am PT Posted: 12 Jun 2010 10:04 AM PDT  I'm going to be interviewed about Made by Hand by Lyle Troxell on GeekSpeak on KUSP at 10:30am PT. Live stream here. Podcast here.   |
| Jamiroquai: Where's he now? Pimpin' instant ramen in Japan Posted: 12 Jun 2010 09:03 AM PDT Well, I suppose we all have to pay the rent. In the Japanese television commercial embedded above, Jamiroquai's Jay Kay sings an alternate version of the band's '90s funkyraver smash hit "Virtual Insanity" in which the lyrics have been changed to praise the noodly goodness of Cup Noodle instant ramen (known in the USA as "Cup Noodles"). In Japanese, he now croons, "I am hungry, I am hungry, I like Cup Noodle, I don't need another one." Virtual insanity, indeed! Here is the official Cup Noodle campaign site. (via watashi no tokyo, via Gavin Purcell)
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