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This is serious. Hasbro and Mattel, who make the Scrabble board game, have asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous. I must admit that I was puzzled by the legal status of the game when Charlie and I first descended into addiction. I wondered if the copyright had expired, or whether the Scrabulous coders had come to [...]

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I’m not happy. I worked for too many years in IT, and if there’s one lesson that you’d think I would have learned from my time there it’s that faster is not always better. This would, on early evidence, seem to apply to my internet connection, which was upgraded about a week ago from a [...]

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Dear God I’m addicted to Scrabulous. For anyone who hasn’t been playing (or reading Charlie Brooker), it’s a Scrabble plugin for Facebook. Except, inasmuch as I can be bothered to find out, it started out as a turn-based email game. Whatever, our Charlie’s “no Facebook till lunch” note to self is still as apt as [...]

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