The Case Against Coldplay

The New York Times reports on Coldplay’s favourite subject: moaning! Jon – I don’t admire them either, I bought their first album and only listened to it once. *yawn*
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Later.. More on the Coldplay Backlash! I have mixed feelings about them being beaten to the UK No. 1 spot by the Crazy Frog, I can’t imagine a more annoying song than that tune. Thankfully I don’t have to take public transport too often and I’ve been insulated from the worst of teenager’s ringtones.

Corpus Christi on Pana

Here’s a panoramic photo I assembled from 2 shots at the Corpus Christi Procession on Sunday. I created the photo with the help of Panoramic Stitch which I mentioned a few days ago. It did a very good job, especially when you consider the foreground. I can’t imagine what kind of manipulation I would have had to go through to get those lines to match up! Using this GIMP plugin was simple – select a few control points, it figures out how close the points are on each image and then you generate the stitch!
I did try to stitch a 3rd photo to the left of this one, but the distortion became too great and artefacts were very evident. I hope the author is encouraged to continue working on this project as he has come a long way already!
PS. Pana is Cork slang for “St. Patrick’s Street”, the main street running through Cork City.