http://www.biggleszx.com/ Random and irreverent comment on the world, life, and current affairs. en-gb http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=36 To anyone who has been following the terrible events in New Orleans, this will make both interesting and concerning reading. Since Hurricane Katrina hit the area, its effects have been nothing less th... BigglesZX 2005-09-02 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=35 Reported by Forbes: Debuted at the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference in Los Angeles, researchers have developed a gadget designed to exploit the effects of Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation. As ... BigglesZX 2005-08-07 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=34 This Wired article showed up on Slashdot this morning - about Adam Laurie, chief security officer of London security and networking firm ALD. Using a laptop, infrared transmitter and TV tuner, Laurie ... BigglesZX 2005-07-31 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=33 Back after a week's holiday, I bring happy news of beeeeer. Wired ran this article earlier today about recent events in the open-source world - a group of students who have produced what they clai... BigglesZX 2005-07-18 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=32 An old laptop needn't be a useless lump of junk - it can be turned into a digital picture frame! This article from GRYNX appeared earlier today on Slashdot, and explains step-by-step how the autho... BigglesZX 2005-06-21 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=30 PC World US has, perhaps a little prematurely, released its definitive list of The 100 Best Products of 2005. Straight in at the deep end, the Number One product is... Mozilla Firefox. Their glowin... BigglesZX 2005-06-11 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=31 Hot on the heels of the first video release from Kevin Rose and Dan Huard comes this second episode of Systm. In this installment, the pair build and configure a cheap "media centre" PC using free s... BigglesZX 2005-06-11 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=29 David Wong of Pointlesswasteoftime.com looks at the impending arrival of the next line of games consoles - the PS3, Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution - and asks, "what do gamers want from this seventh... BigglesZX 2005-05-31 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=28 Dan Huard and Kevin Rose, the dynamic duo behind the superb three-part videozine dubbed "TheBroken", have started up a new videozine project called Systm. The first episode was released Monday, and ... BigglesZX 2005-05-24 http://www.biggleszx.com/comments.php?nid=27 If you've recently upgraded to the latest version of MSN Messenger, version 7, you may have noticed the huge amount of new bullshit features that have been packed into this most recent release. Ev... BigglesZX 2005-05-23