News: Hasbro orders Scrabulous removed from Facebook

If you are a Facebook user who enjoys Scrabble, better find another way to get your fix. About two weeks ago, Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble(tm) has asked Facebook to remove the application. The Scrabulous application was developed by two programmers in Calcutta and currently has 2.3 million registered users, generating more than $25,000 each month in advertising revenue. The programmers' lawyers are currently attempting to negotiate with Hasbro to avoid having the application shut down. Found on Techdirt.

News: 2007 Darwin Awards winners announced

[img align="left" src="http://darwinawards.com/i/darwin.logo.medium.gif" alt="" /]The 2007 Darwin Award winners have been announced. Follow the link to see how creatively humans were able to remove themselves from the gene pool in the past year. Found on Slashdot. Edit: The site appears to be really slow at the moment so I've temporarily disabled the graphic. This is probably due to the sudden influx of traffic. Either be patient in waiting for the page to load or wait a few days for the traffic to settle down. The site address is: http://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2007.html