DailyLit: Bite-sized literature in your inbox, daily

by Jordan Running Sep 14th 2006

Not enough time for reading? Want to catch up on the classics? DailyLit might be just what you've been looking for. It's a simple service that will email you classic literature a few pages at a time, so you can split up your reading over the course of a few weeks or months. How long it will take you depends on how long the work is and how often you receive it. You can set the delivery frequency to every day, every weekday, or every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. You can also tell DailyLit it to send you the next part as soon as you've finished the previous. There's dozens of novels of various lengths available, most of them by familiar authors ranging from Homer to Lewis Carroll, plus nonfiction works by Marx, Descartes, and many others. If you're looking for a little culture, delivered daily, DailyLit is definitely worth checking out.

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Civiballs is a beautiful, soothing physics puzzle Time Waster

I have an absolute weakness for physics games, and while Civiballs isn't the strongest physics-based game, what it lacks in the physics department it makes up for a few times over in style and fun.

In Civiballs, you are presented with a few colored balls, and your goal is to get those balls into the same-colored urn on the level. The "civi" part of Civiballs is that there are 3 sets of levels to play, each representing a different civilization. While the civilization doesn't affect gameplay, the artwork for each level is beautifully themed to it's appropriate era.

To play the game, you are given only one tool - a sword with which to cut the chains that are holding the balls. The puzzle part of the game is in figuring out what order, and with what timing to cut each chain. Do it right, and all the right balls end up in the right urns, with no stray balls entering an urn (a no-no). Do it wrong, and you get to start over again.

Civiballs is not terribly deep on gameplay; the entire game can be completed in about 15 minutes. But if you enjoy this type of game, it will be a very enjoyable 15 minutes.

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