with just a scrape

Webware: 'Scrabulous' gets a nip/tuck; returns as 'Wordscraper'

Not quite the same ring, huh? Anyway, the developers have released a new Scrabble-like game with things ever so slightly altered. I don't think your stats somehow get carried over. That'd be nice. If not though, I'm not sure if I'd play ghetto Scrabble out of anything but spite. But that's good enough reason. :-)

After looking at it for all of 10 seconds, looks like you can make custom boards! I'm not really sure what that entails...probably just putting bonus squares where you want them to be and making things a little crazy...but just as Jeopardy had to up its dollar amounts, so does ghetto Scrabble.

fat Skabba boot

So last night over the course of random internetting, I found out that Jonathan Togo (nicely pictured here =P), who plays Ryan Wolfe on CSI: Miami, used to be in The El Conquistadors (formerly known as Skabba the Hut) who of course play our favorite song, "Beatdown Stomp". DAMN. Skabba's MySpace, here.

I guess they're not all jokes

A woman is being charged for using craigslist to place a hit on her lover's wife?

From MSNBC.com:

yay a new non substantive blog

Hey, I love picture based blogs. By that, I mean things like icanhascheezburger, GraphJam (same people), Hello Kitty Hell (mostly), whatever.

This one appears to be somewhat in the growing phase.

English Fail Blog.

Think Engrish, but a lot more genuine English speaker mistakes.

Latest:
Good Thing Spelling Isn’t One Of The Ten Commandments

but...I...it's...THIS IS UNFAIR

Webware: 'Scrabulous' disappears from Facebook after Hasbro suit

I can't really put a finger on why this is wrong, and in fact, maybe it's the right thing to have happened, but it was probably one of the few facebook apps I never considered getting rid of. I still love to Scrab.

I don't care what they're called

Yum. Does anyone else remember Freedom fries? I certainly forgot about them. Our country is silly sometimes!

Canada did something?

CTV: Canada deports U.S. soldier opposed to Iraq war

I'm hearing the news about 2 weeks late. Interesting topic though.

On Monday, Federal Court of Canada Justice Anne Mactavish said Long did not provide enough convincing evidence that he will face irreparable harm if he's sent back to the United States.

1) I didn't realize that you had to prove irreparable harm.
2) I didn't realize until now thinking back that Canada has a history of offering refuge to Americans for whatever reason, including draft dodging. (Vietnam War)
3) Ya know, I don't think I even thought that people actually fled to Canada in the first place. I knew people thought about it in theory...

Anyway, deserters != draft dodging. The draft is scary. Joining the army and deciding to leave...inherently...has more of your personal choice involved. I'm not sure if that's worth fleeing the country for. It's more your fault than anything else...

That said, I don't know how I think this should play out.

The Kojo Nnamdi Show on my local NPR station covered this topic, which alerted it to me in the first place! Listen to hear some heated opinions.