I think this is the guy from austin. He lives near home street where each year they go crazy with christmass lights so we always go take the kids to see what we call "All the lights" In front of William's house he had this cool interactive digital christmas display. You would pick up one of the flash lights point it at what looked like a sheet and cool lava like patterns would form in reaction to where you shined the light. It was fun. Nice to see him with a web log.
A blog from the heart of cyberspace
BoingBoing points us to the newly launched blog of science fiction writer William Gibson. This is the guy who coined the word "cyberspace." Watch it. Think.
His first posting includes a reference to Thomas Pynchon, another of my favorite writers:
In spite of (or perhaps because of) my reputation as a reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite shunning the net (or word-processors, depending on what you Google) I hope to be here on a more or less daily basis. [RatcliffeBlog: Business, Technology & Investing]
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PaperCams are the simplest cameras imaginable: by folding a sheet of photographic paper into a cube and taping it shut, you end up with a pinhole camera that consists of a brass plate and a sheet of paper. The artist assembles his cameras entirely in the dark and revels in the accidental burns and streaks created by light-leakage. 
