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by Jason Clarke Aug 1st 2007
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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Jon Henshaw said 9:24AM on 8-01-2007
It's a nice tool, but often times they only provide the title and one sentence about the article, and not the article itself or a link to the article. For example, take these Men's Health articles. Clicking on the 2nd and 3rd article give you practically nothing and the first article is missing it's related images. However, I can see how this might be useful if you were trying to remember an article you read in a magazine. In this case, you would at least know what magazine it was in or in which issue it appeared.
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Jon Henshaw said 9:25AM on 8-01-2007
Link in reference to the previous comment: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1608/is_5_23
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Eric Hoss said 10:15AM on 8-01-2007
What about AccessMyLibrary? That service provides a far larger quantity of articles (over 29 million, nearly triple what FindArticles provides): all are full-text and free to those with a library card. Even if you don't have a library card, you can still get restricted access to the content through a site registration.
Linky: http://www.accessmylibrary.com
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alex said 4:28PM on 8-01-2007
"however it's not going to replace Google or Wikipedia for up-to-date information on any topic imaginable any time soon."
I'd wish that this would replace wikipedia or google ... internet is missing a LOT on the authenticity side... so on Google it may look "up to date" but information can always be wrong...
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helen said 8:36AM on 8-02-2007
While I can't comment on the content of this site, I would say that it seems to serve some very dubious ads - of the "Your computer is infected with p*rn" variety. I support a lot of students who are inexperienced computer users, and they come across articles on this site fairly often. I've lost count of the times I've had to explain to a panicked and embarrassed student that no, there isn't actually anything awful on their hard drive.
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Ross Bradley said 9:10PM on 8-08-2007
Health (as indexed) appears ok to my liking.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/tn_health
Cheers!
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