A cool (I think) interpretation of the “islands” theme just struck me: Islands of human waste! It’s a real life phenomenon: http://www.falloutearth.com/documentary/garbage-island/

Also about every 50 times or so restarting my game I notice that my compiz window manager (default on ubuntu) bails out and I have to restart because metacity causes nasty tearing in my game! If you have this problem, drop to a virtual terminal and execute:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

Or I guess do it from xterm with “nohup”