IP Oppression: Facebook asked to remove "Scrabulous"
6 Comments Published by Augur on Wednesday, January 16 at 10:47 AM.
Many of our bloggers and readers are addicted to Scrabulous. This morning I received an email from a dear friend, subject line "Oh noes!!! Scrabulous is in trouble!" Evidentally, Mattel has asked Facebook to remove the Scrabulous application.
From my reading of the CNET article linked above, it seems like their biggest objection is infringing on their trademark for scrabble, not the gameplay itself. If that's the case, could Scrabulous just name it anything that isn't trademarked, and continue offering a free version of Scrabble? I took like 8 constitutional law courses in law school instead of taking something practical that would illuminate this discussion. Does anyone out there in the Agora know if I'm going to have to get back to billing hours instead of playing Scrabble on Facebook?
Update: Also check out the story at my favorite law blog Above the Law.
From my reading of the CNET article linked above, it seems like their biggest objection is infringing on their trademark for scrabble, not the gameplay itself. If that's the case, could Scrabulous just name it anything that isn't trademarked, and continue offering a free version of Scrabble? I took like 8 constitutional law courses in law school instead of taking something practical that would illuminate this discussion. Does anyone out there in the Agora know if I'm going to have to get back to billing hours instead of playing Scrabble on Facebook?
Update: Also check out the story at my favorite law blog Above the Law.
Celebrating Talk Like A Pirate Day
8 Comments Published by Augur on Wednesday, September 19 at 8:59 AM.
Ahoy mates, today be International Talk Like A Pirate Day!
T' help you sail through t' day, your buckos at Urbanagora wanted t' link t' some booty. Click here. And here. Garrrrr, here be an English t' Pirate translator. And, here be a funny picture o' a pirate keyboard (from Engadget)
T' help you sail through t' day, your buckos at Urbanagora wanted t' link t' some booty. Click here. And here. Garrrrr, here be an English t' Pirate translator. And, here be a funny picture o' a pirate keyboard (from Engadget)
I love this Cat Steven's song. Even on particularly rough days listening to this reminds me how magical life is.
Labels: Augur, fun, Lightening up, music
This just in from The Onion--and by "this just in," I mean it ran a little over a month ago but I assumed that many of you haven't seen it--Study: 38 Percent Of People Not Actually Entitled To Their Opinion.
It's a shame this hadn't been released at the time of the infamous Fox Lake thread. Point for Brian.
It's a shame this hadn't been released at the time of the infamous Fox Lake thread. Point for Brian.
Labels: fun, humor, jon monteith, stupid beliefs
kitten sent me a list taken from the webpage below. Out of curiosity, I went down the list and kept track of the number of words for which I didn't know the definition.
List of 100
There were four--abstemious, inculcate, moiety and obsequious.
How about you? Are lawyers or scientists more literate than the average person on the street?
Tom
List of 100
There were four--abstemious, inculcate, moiety and obsequious.
How about you? Are lawyers or scientists more literate than the average person on the street?
Tom
Labels: fun, information, knowledge, Tet
