Photosynth play

I had my first play with photosynth. I have to say I was looking forward to this for a while. My base images are of the castle in Ballinskelligs, Kerry, Ireland. I have visited there on two separate occasions in the past 2 years and taken a few pictures. While there are a lot of matches between many images photosynth has the lot broken up in a number of different groups. This means photosynth could not relate all the groups together, even though they are for a fact in the same location. It's good now that it is out I just hope that microsoft build on it, rather than put it on the shelf and forget it like a bad idea. I have a stack of images I took for stitching I have to run through to see how it performs.

D'ems fightin' words

I came across the article last week that detailed the genetic map of europe. Biologists have constructed a genetic map of Europe showing the degree of relatedness between its various populations.

I also keep an eye on the strange maps blog which posted the above image from the original article. However in part of the listed analysis on that blog states :

...the Irish population almost doesn’t show any characteristics that would distinguish it from the British one.

Jaysus, that's not going to go down well at all, at all!

George Lucas in Carbonite

George Lucas in Carbonite, originally uploaded by bonniegrrl.

Photo By Bonnie Burton -- Starwars.com

Cobra Commander

IMG_8888, originally uploaded by MikeRollerson.

This is one cool shot of a Cobra Commander at Comic Con, will the movie version match? COBRA!