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After many months of doing virtually nothing, Hasbro, maker of the board game Scrabble, finally moved today to shut down a hugely popular, rogue Scrabble website. The giant game company filed suit against the creators of Scrabulous in federal court in New York City Thursday morning, asserting copyright infringement and demanding that the counterfeit game be immediately taken down...
...brothers from Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, launched their online version of the word game in 2006. But it didn't really take off until 2007, when they ported it over to Facebook, where it's among the most popular add-on games on the giant social network. It has more than 512,000 active users who play it daily...
...Kabbalah Misconceptions Your article "A Brief History of: Kabbalah" is a monument to the ignorance of today's popular culture. Kabbalah is the oral tradition of the mystical aspect of the Torah. Those who lack the oral tradition are at best pretenders. I hope the description of Madonna as a practitioner was a joke, because it can't be taken seriously. Kabbalah did not cohere around a book; the book was an attempt to record in writing a tradition that had been around for centuries. The Zohar may have been first published in the 13th century, but it was written...
...HORRIBLE so popular it crashes Web server...
...media can barely contain their excitement. "Germany Meets the Superstar" read the front page of the weekly Der Spiegel in reference to a popular TV show, while the tabloid Bild called Obama "Berlin's New Kennedy!" and gushed, "It's like 1963," describing the presidential candidate as "just as young, sexy and charismatic" as John F. Kennedy. And that's before he's even set foot here...