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Dear Scrabulous:

We mentioned the other day how Facebook's much-loved Scrabulous application bit the dust, to be "replaced" by the Hasbro-sanctioned "Scrabble Beta" application. (We're refusing to add Scrabble Beta to our Facebook on principle.) But take heart, for this morning we learned via the XPN Morning Show news that the makers of Scrabulous have essentially re-formed the game, and you can now find it as the WordScraper. We haven't played WordScraper yet, but apparently the functionality is slightly different. We're told that the game board uses circles instead of squares, and the point system has been altered so as not to mimic that of Scrabble. So it's not really your old Scrabulous, but it's something. Now go forth, and procrastinate!

DCist reports, and we're confirming from our own sad, personal experience, that Facebook today removed Scrabulous, the popular Scrabble-like application, from their website at the behest (more like a suit) of Hasbro. We'd mentioned a couple months ago that Hasbro and Mattel were trying to shut down Scrabulous, and it sadly looks like they've now succeeded. The game is still available at Scrabulous.com, but the convenient workday time-waster on Facebook is gone for the foreseeable future. Leave us a comment and let us know what you'll be doing now that your favorite app is no more.

There were some strong contenders for Asshole of the Week this week, a couple of whom probably might have won on another week. But this week, there was one asshole who stood knees and ankles below the rest. Our Asshole of the Week is...