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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by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jan 17th 2007
Side by side on your PC, happily... Well, you get the idea. Lifehacker points to a neat new beta installer for Ubuntu that will drop a little Ubuntu love on your XP box (Vista not supported yet), without the need for a brand-new partition. It's kinda like a liveCD without the CD. Get it? Pretty neat if you just wanna be an Ubuntu voyeur. It's still pretty beta-fied, so YMMV (and you have been warned).
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Olivia said 5:09PM on 1-17-2007
ooooh. what does YMMV mean?
(i was thinking of trying it out, but now you scared me.)
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Sponge said 6:11PM on 1-17-2007
Your Mileage May Vary.
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Kevin M. said 6:33PM on 1-17-2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_mileage_may_vary
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conedude13 said 8:20PM on 1-17-2007
I mentioned this in the lifehacker comments, so I guess I'll toss it in over here as well. You are able to keep xp completely separate from Ubuntu if you just install Ubuntu on a usb jump drive. I wrote up some instructions on how to do just this. And it isn't a live cd that is just dumped on the jump drive, it is the actual full operating system of Ubuntu. Give it a look:
http://conedude13.blogspot.com/2007/01/linux-on-stick-part-ii.html
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