Extremophiles

Anoxic environment  - a loriciferan identified as an undescribed species of the genus Spinoloricus. The creature has specialized organelles so that it can survive without oxygen. Scale bar is 50 microns.

Dunaliella Algae.  Lives in driest place on earth in Chile's Atacama desert.  Grow on top of spider webs, capitalizing on dew


Hyperthermophiles - survive extreme heat - 205 degrees F or more
Halophilic - high salt tolerant organisms
Psychrophiles - survive extreme cold - 5 degrees F
Endophiles - organisms that live inside rocks or other things thought impermeable to life, like crevices of animal shells, or pores b/w grains of minerals.  Have been found 2 miles below earth.  Not much water, but some studies show they may survive feeding on surrounding potassium, iron or sulfur.  While limited in some ways, they are protected from wind and water and solar radiation.


Deinococcus Radiodurans - named specifically for how much radiation it can. take.   can take a 15,000 gray dose of radiation.  10 grays is enough to kill a human.  1000 grays kills a cockroach.  ALSO survives extreme cold, dehydration, vacuum conditions, AND acids.  Known in Guiness book of records as "worlds toughest bacteria"

Interactive Fiction

http://www.ifarchive.org/indexes/if-archive.html

Treaty of Babel
http://babel.ifarchive.org/
http://babel.ifarchive.org/infocom.html

Frotz
http://freespace.virgin.net/davidk.kinder/frotz.html

Comic Blogs

https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=making+comics+blog

http://www.makingcomics.com/

Games I should try 2

Bastion - action RPG, narrator is great ***
Outland - sidesrolling ikaruga/metroidvania with prettier colors
Terraria - minecraft in 2D.  Dan Floyd likes better.  More game to it
Kingdom of Loathing - very old mmo.  fairly deep.  And Funny
Metro 2033
Depths of Peril - Diablo like
Monday Night Combat
Trenched - Tower defense, mechs WWI setting - by Double Fine
O Game - combat spreadsheets
World of Tanks
The Cat and the Coup - artsy fringe of gaming.  Free on steam
Earth Defense Force 2017 - blasting giant robots, insects, space dragons with big guns.  Stupid fun
Panzercorp, tank tactics game.  Like panzer general I and II
Runespell Overture - Puzzlequest RPG combat using poker hands
Catherine - Survival Horror Q-Bert with morality questions about relationships
MOnster Hunter 1 2 or 3.  Incredible rewarding game
The Stanley Parable

Rockethub, like Kickstarter

http://www.rockethub.com/

Extra Credits Indie Fund Search:
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ec+indie+fund

http://twitter.com/#!/ECIndieFund

http://www.rockethub.com/projects/3074-extra-credits-indie-fund

Jailbrreaking PS3

http://www.geohot.us/2011/01/how-to-jailbreak-ps3-running-355.html

Games I should try

RPGS
--fate of the world
--knights in the nightmare - FF tactics + Ikaruga
--Europa Universalis, Victoria II, Hearts of Iron  - Hardcore Historical Strategy.  Very hard to learn.  Change history in whatever way you find most interesting.

--Valkyria Chronicles
--The World Ends with You
--kings field the ancient city
--demon souls


--Radiant Historia - something like Chrono Trigger, SNES art.  DS?
--desktop dungeons - exploration as a limited resource.  Old school pixel art

SHOOTER
Vanquish

ACTION
--Super Crate box
-Owl boy
-Dust (xbox Live)

FIGHTING
--Dissidia - besides fighting, RPG elements, and a deep single player experience

HORROR
--Amnesia the dark descent

ADVENTURE
--Ghost Trick, Phantom Detective
--Professor Layton and the Curious Village

FLASH GAMES
--Today I Die - Closest they've ever seen to an interactive Poem
--Everyday the Same Dream
--One Chant
--Company of Myself - A puzzle platformer crossed with someone's diary on lonliness
--End of Us - Friendship and attachment portrayed by asteroids
--Freedom Bridge - depressing...?
--Passage - a representation of life in less than 5 minutes

PUZZLE
--Might and Magic - Clash of Heroes
--Spacechem - Something similar to Molechemy
--Ilomilo - cute creepy, weird, beautiful, mul;ltiplayer

MMO
--Dungeon Fighter
--Minecraft

ALTERNATE REALITY GAME
--I <3 Bees
--Year Zero
--Deathball.net/notpron


GOG wishlist:

Alien shooter + expansionsn (mindless iso alien killing)
Arcanum: of steamworks and magic obscura (fallout like)
Betrayal at Krondar Pack (recommended by Spoony)
dragonsphere (free at Gog.com)
Evil Genius
Fallout Tactics
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
ghost master (ghost RTS)
gobliiins pack
lionheart: legacy of the crusader
lords of magic special
master of magic 1994 (civilization like with magic setting)
masters of orion 1-3
mob rule - Mom
nox, sacred (gold edition) - diablo like
Oddworld, all of it
original war
outcast
painkiller - quake-like shooter
planescape torment
psychonauts
realms of the haunting
redneck rampage collection
sacrifice
scratches - interactive fiction
septerra core (beware, 100 hours long!)
shadowgrounds - iso shooter
shattered steel
simon the sorcerer 1, 2- SCUMM engine
Spellforce platinum ed
Star Control
Star Wolves
Zork - all of it
Stonekeep (old dungeon crawl RPG)
Syberia 1,2
Ultima123, 456
under a steel sky (IF)
warlords battlecry 3 - RTS/RPG blend
wing commander 1&2
witcher - RPG

aya brea, 3rd birthday

Valve Handbook

http://cdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

Swordfighting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BBq9zE2pY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r7VWIQCHvM

WKRP in Cincinnati

http://zvbxrpl.blogspot.com/2009/03/links-to-wkrp-episodes-posted-so-far.html

Astronaut

http://astronauts.nasa.gov/
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/F_Astronaut_Requirements.html

http://www.kgstores.com/shop/pd_stacy-adams-kahn-white-lace-up-shoes_11153_10053_59898_-1_59653_300086650__?cm_vc=63464

http://www.fantasyanime.com/index.htm

http://www.fantasyanime.com/mana/

cg student awards

http://www.cgstudentawards.com/

top 100 genesis games

http://www.retro-sanctuary.com/Top-100-Megadrive-Games-Page-5.html
http://www.epinions.com/content_3345850500?sb=1