"Half a billion people have spent more than 6 billion hours playing Bejeweled, and 10 percent of those have actually shelled out their own money to buy it. PopCap, which has grown from a garage outfit to a company with more than 200 employees, has ported the game to Xbox 360, Playstation 2 and every phone OS imaginable, not to mention Palm Pilot, Pocket PC and iPod. You can play it to win cash on gambling sites, there are Bejeweled-themed casino machines in Vegas, and in Australia, you can even get scratch-off lottery tickets based on it.
Now, PopCap is hoping to hit the jackpot again.
Today, casual gamers will get their twitchy paws on the PC version of Bejeweled Twist -- a follow-up that's been four years and a record-setting $1 million in the making. Twist stays true to the original's unique charms, but radically alters the gameplay. The object of the game is still to make rows and columns of three identical gems. But instead of swapping the positions of two side-by-side gems, you have to rotate two
- Shannon Jiménez
"So annealed into pop culture are the five stages of grief—introduced in the 1960s by Swiss-born psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross based on her studies of the emotional state of dying patients—that they are regularly referenced without explication.
There appears to be no evidence, however, that most people most of the time go through most of the stages in this or any other order."
- Shannon Jiménez
We live on the edge of town. The fields are where I walk the dogs.
- Shannon Jiménez
it's nice to have some space. is that a farm or something?
- Cee Bee
Davis is surrounded by agriculture. The field in the photo had corn until the recent harvest. We also have lots of tomatoes and sunflowers.
- Shannon Jiménez
"Enciclopedia del español en los EE UU, editada por Santillana, nace ante esa nueva identidad cultural de nacionalidad hispano-estadounidense. Se presenta como una recopilación exhaustiva y pormenorizada impulsada por el IC, que analiza la situación actual del español a fin de comprender mejor su proyección futura. A lo largo de 80 artículos especializados, repartidos en un total de 1.000 páginas, el lector puede consultar las múltiples realidades del mosaico hispano en EE UU."
- Shannon Jiménez
"In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species.
Everywhere else biologists have studied life on our planet, they've found communities of life, but today, biologists announced they have discovered an ecosystem that contains just a single species of bacteria."
- Shannon Jiménez
"Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup. To settle this once and for all, we went to a local cineplex and bought three Cokes with varying amounts of cubes at 4 smackaroos each. Then we broke out our thermometers and measuring cups. The cold, hard data says it all."
- Shannon Jiménez
My goodness... while sexual harrassment claims are never a laughing matter, I would be lying if I didn't say I had quite a few big chuckles when reading this article. 1) No quotes from band members? 2) Am I the only person who felt this read like something from The Onion? 3) Make the kids pay for property damage, but... unless current members of the band want to file a claim, why doesn't the director just get outta the way? Seems like the band was doing just fine before he barged in. 4) Damn, this band makes my high school band days look like they took place in a monastery! :P
- Adam Lasnik
poor guy, but come on...i can't think of a marching band that isn't rowdy and lewd and davis has a reputation. as a grad student in music, he should have known that.
- Anika
"The time interval between the first report on preparation, isolation, or synthesis (or the earliest patent) and the highly cited articles reporting successful clinical interventions -- between the report of findings with clinical potential and the determination via clinical trials that that promise is realized in a treatment -- is the "translational lag". (There is, of course, another lag that's harder to quantify this way -- that between the initial findings in the research lab and the publication of those findings.)
Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. found that the median translational lag for the highly cited articled in their study was 24 years."
- Shannon Jiménez
To Mona: please send me an e-mail at shannon dot jimenez at gmail dot com. I have a top secret job offer for you and I don't have your e-mail address. kthxbai.