Tetris Turns 25: Is it the next Olympic Sport

In 1984, Russian mathematician Alexey Pajitnov was playing with one of his favorite puzzles when he had an inspiration: How about creating a computer version?

Pajitnov wrote the program in his spare time, simplifying the idea to make it easier for those of us who aren't math geniuses.

He used shapes made of four squares -- hence "Tetris," which comes from the Greek word for four, "Tetra."

In the game, players must position and stack blocky shapes to fill a grid without leaving spaces in between. Successfully completed sections disappear. The more sections the player completes without reaching the top, the higher the score. The faster players accomplish this, the higher their score. iReport: 25 years of Tetris

Steadily, the game worked its way around the world. Millions of people found themselves glued to their computers and game players -- hearts racing and screaming in frustration -- all over getting a simple horizontal line of digital squares to disappear.

"I would just play it for hours and hours," said iReporter Joel Vetsch of New Haven, Connecticut, who got addicted to Tetris on a Game Boy when he was 10. "I'm 29 now, and I still love it." See Vetsch's iReport here

Vetsch became so obsessed with Tetris that the game even showed up in his dreams.
"I'd go to sleep and in my head I'd see blocks. . .going into each other," he told CNN. "It was weird."

More than 125 million Tetris products have been sold, and Guinness World Records' 2009 Gamers' Edition book ranked Tetris No. 2 on its list of the top 50 console games of all time, behind Super Mario Kart.

Twenty-five years to the month after Tetris was born, CNN spoke with Pajitnov and Henk Rogers, CEO of Blue Planet Software, the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the game.

The two men talked about what makes Tetris so addictive, how they believe the game can help unite the world, and -- no joke -- why they want a Tetris competition in the Olympics.

By : Josh Levs CNN

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Latest Trend Students Jogja

There is a trend that is now visible in kost or house rent student / student in Jogja. When I check on their status are still students / student about the facilities kost acquired one of the answers they are. The existence of the Internet connection in their kost. Provider its multifarious, that use instant telkoment, Speedy, and he and other ISPs are also willing to use its own GPRS connection. Once the rich glue them to have an internet connection in the kost? In fact, if not also re-calculated them rich. York region for their own Internet connection with bandwidth are only charged a subscription around 800 rb -1.5 jt / month. If one kost inhabited by 40 people. But if the cooperate together and find around Rp.20 rb - Rp.37.500 / month. And with the cost of the Internet they can connect full-time. Whenever they want and need. Trends such as this have not been there in years 98-99. Internet connection at the time it is expensive and luxurious. But there is a unique in the city Yogyakarta this. With its growing place kost learner Internet. Garnet-cafe also appear in certain areas and there is still only its users.
I do not know the conditions in other cities, such as what, but if there is ever to stop in New York and was going away and around the world to observe the Internet connection you will find the Internet Hotspot in almost every building campuses, Hotspot in the cafe, where Hotspot Billyard, and there is also the hotspot angkringan. Most free access although there is also a pay.
Capital laptop / HP / PDA with wifi facilities can connect. Jogja is the trendsetter, according to my IT world, the world trensetter students. And year by year to learn how they have started to shift to IT, one of the facilities by utilizing the Internet.

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The Amount of Power in Love

The strength of love is extraordinary. People who fall in love will be willing to give up anything for the love of it. Love makes everything beautiful, although must be passed by suffering.
The strength of love that makes the Bilal bin Rabbah prefer dried in the hot sand of the unbelievers shall return, although a protestor threw a stone large weigh up to nearly shatter the breast bone. With calm, he mentions the name his paramour,''Ahad, Ahad, Ahad.''Similarly, Abdurrahman bin auf, wealthy merchant friends dawn. He was willing to spend for the sake of jihad property fisabilillah. On the basis of all love.
Landscape also feel how it its terrible strength. They willingly emigrated to Medina with a walk-Based miles away, across the sands of the dry and hot sake of saving faith. Because the love of Allah SWT on, brave valorous with their rushing to go to the battlefield. Without fear, wealth, blood, and lives, they consistent Tebasan with the sword and a spear in order to prove a sincere love. Birth to the sacrifice of love and priorities.
Evidence to the love of God is not the only story of the past. The current can be brothers so that our love of God, even though the property and lives peril. I remember some of the stories our brothers in Medan that the Tsunami hear landslide in Aceh, they go directly to bring a bicycle and adequate supplies to rescue the remaining people. Once through the field may not follow the vehicle, they immediately bicycle pedal-Based miles to reach the disaster area, although none of the press cover it. There is even a volunteer from Jakarta who until after amputated hands, so take some bones exposed disease hands.
We may never see a traders, workers, drivers, who are very income barely even possible " did last " but they still survive in the work place only because of propaganda reasons. "Everyone is not that we manage the people here, who again?" They said. Even they may be able to move to a more "wet" and pursue wealth in other places. It seems there are other motivations in themselves, because other than the love of God.
If we truly love God, then God will love and help us. If we love God, we would willingly sacrifice everything with the sacrifice of the best. If the true love of Allah SWT, we will take the world is only moderate. Looking for property not for overstatement, but as a means of worship. If the true love of God, will we be rushing Wudhu when adzan is called by, because the fact is adzan In the call. If the true love of Allah SWT, on every third night we awake to the one prayer, although fatigue, drowsiness, cold and tan. If we are to love God, we will certainly concerned about the condition and welfare of people of faith.
Worship without love will be based on weight and feel useless. As a person who admitted to believe, we have Correct the love of God? Is the extent to which we exceed His love for us to the other?

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Parents love to his children

Through the love of parents, children get a first taste of security in a world that is completely foreign. The tie means the children receive in good condition and unprincipled. Children are very sensitive to feeling rejected. To feel secure children need to be embraced, Below, and was told that they let. Love to help any child that will happen.

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