This just in: “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice. ” For those in the dark, Scrabulous is the insanely popular Scrabble application on Facebook, whose copyright is owned by Hasbro. It’s responsible for eating up hours of valuable work time. For those in the know, this means newsrooms are about to get a whole lot more productive. Sigh.
Katia Bachko is on staff at The New Yorker.
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