canary in the coal mine

deepsea mining & permaculture

deep sea mountain ranges and mineral jets

this could turn into a neat game play idea -- digger mermaids?!

I listened to another cool ted talk about permaculture where a farmer moved his herd of cattle into a fresh paddock. The cows grazed for 3 days and ate up all the grass. He then moved them to another paddock and replaced them with 300 chickens who quickly headed to the cow patties and to gobble up their favourite prey juicy grubs.

If the farmer had waited 5 days, the maggots would have turned into flies. The chickens in turn made their nitrous rich waste which is perfect fuel for rebuilding the grasses.

wiki: permaculture

citrus engine

"The Citrus Engine is a side scrolling platform game engine built for Flash in ActionScript 3, using the Box2D physics library. It is geared towards teams that want a quick and powerful way to make advergames, and casual games for game portals."

citrus engine

prisoner's dilemma

I recommend:

TEDTalks : Way-new collaboration - Howard Rheingold (2005)

He discusses the game theory of a prisoner’s dilemma

ted.com <-- subscribe there to get his talk - its great to load up your ipod with them

Pebble to Meteorite

this is a nice article which illustrates what your C02 contribution weighs and how it can quickly amass into something huge.

see the weight of your C02

What the connection to the game? I had mentioned a meteor in an earlier post plus this article mentions a hot spring which could another cool game element.

cat rabbit

I stumbled across this image and looked up the artist after googling "catrabbit".

her flickr feed

her site