We just got this message after logging in to Scrabulous on Facebook: "Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here." To which we say: KHAAAAAAN! We've also just had to switch back to Firefox 2.0. Any page with Ajax was giving Firefox 3 fits--since we usually have at least three Ajax-heavy Google and Gmail pages open at......

Seattlest was in Vancouver this weekend, and, on a whim, made our first foray into a Tim Hortons. We'd heard good things -- "the apex of Canadian cuisine," for example -- and as lifelong doughnut fans we were happy to test that claim. We bought a maple glazed ring and a chocolate longjohn and took them back to our room. The verdict: Canada, you're better than that. The doughnuts were fine, but they're nothing......

Just months after spending $240 million to own a portion of the company, Bill Gates has removed his personal Facebook profile. Gates had supposedly purchased a small portion of the social-networking company because he'd so enjoyed using the website. However, after Gate's investment in the company and his personal profile came to light, the Microsoft founder was inundated with friend requests. The London Sun reported that Gates was receiving up to 8,000 friend requests......

In news certain to impact hyper-literate Seattle hardest, Scrabulous seems to have been taken down by Facebook. We're hitting the Try Again button like meth-addled lab mice, but no dice so far. Dammit, we just had a bingo! We'd heard about Hasbro's cease-and-desist, but we hadn't realized January 22nd was the deadline. The official Scrabulous site seems ignorant of the whole kerfluffle, while the AP still wants you to sign a petition to save Scrabulous.......

Er, not quite. There is an actual, physical monster in Cloverfield, and unlike the no-see-em trailer, the film eventually shows it in all its gruesome glory (and no, it ain't Stay Puft). Opening Friday, J.J. Abrams' camcorder monster movie (which some describe as "Godzilla meets the Blair Witch") covers a terrible day for all of Manhattan and, in particular, for a group of New Yorkers throwing a bon voyage party for one of their......

Here are things you don't want cops to find when they search your apartment:Four computers, two printers, a scanner and an industrial machine that makes identity cards...$17,500 in cash, dozens of credit cards and fake driver's licenses, and keys to unlock many of the apartments and mailboxes in [your] upscale apartment building...a book titled "The Art of Cheating: A Nasty Little Book for Tricky Little Schemers and Their Hapless Victims," as well as a newspaper......

Former Husky coach Don James--a hero round these parts for leading the Dawgs to the Rose Bowl five times in his reign--is voting in a new college football ranking, the Master Coaches Survey. James and 15 other Hall of Fame coaches get together and rank the top 25 teams (and you can trust them more than those Poindexters at the AP). But these former coaches don't just want to sit in their ivory coaching......

Seattlest has a talk with the photographer from last week's "Segway Mom" and then experiences some dissension in the ranks over the question of wine vs. beer. It's not West Side Story, but about as close as they'll get. They're also still waiting on some inbox relief after a spammer is arrested. As Chicagoist counts down the days to its third anniversary party, they found all-organic pizza to be underwhelming amidst the hoopla, tried......

There's a potentially interesting article in the Seattle Times about a potentially interesting class at Seattle University that includes in its coursework a potentially interesting experiment. It's an experiment in "media deprivation" for a class called "Restorative Solitude." Ninety six hours, no media. Awesome. It reminds us of Chris Pirillo's Google Fast. In the teeny bopper world in which the article is set "media" are things like cell phone, email, internet, iPod, TV, at least......

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. SFist saw their beloved mayor enter rehab, and they loved the......

Speak now before McCain's new bill makes us turn comments off forever. – Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000.” – Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs. — Social networking sites will be forced to take......

--A Seattle-area business-type is set to compete on The Apprentice this year. It's James Sun, CEO of a "mature alternative to social networking sites such as Facebook.com and MySpace.com" called Zoodango.com. Uh, "Zoodango" doesn't strike us as particularly mature... You're fired. --You are indeed beautiful, cafeteria visitor. You are beautiful. --"And if a Congressman wants to take his oath on a stack of Hustlers, I could care less." --Don't think you can badmouth Pitchfork......

Last week, Tyrone Willingham told two seniors with a year of football eligibility remaining, kicker Michael Braunstein and DB Chris Hemphill, that they won't be on the team next year. Not a popular move. Braunstein's father bellyached to the local papers. Hemphill wondered if the distraction caused Saturday's horrid performance vs. Stanford. And now, players are engaged in some virtual mutiny. A UW student set up a Facebook group called "I support Braunstein and Hemphill"......