Scrabulous rhymes with fabulous, and it is. It's an online version of Scrabble, and it's main Poorhouse selling-point is that it is available as a Facebook application. So whilst seeing that "XX is on the toilet" you can also batter them at what is probably the world's most famous word game. In fact, for many, it's basically the reason Facebook is actually worth logging on to.

Unfortunately, the Scrabulous guys are not the same as the Scrabble guys, and a nice (legal) fight has been going on for a while whilst the Scrabble owners try and remove the Scrabulous facebook application as breach of intellectual property rights. Not too sure why the actual Scrabulous.com website is immune here, but unless it's just the reporting it seems that it's the Facebook application that's the main point of contention.

You'll remember that just a couple of weeks ago Russia and Georgia were at war. And no, the Poorhouse does not refer to the sexy bikini type war either (Blame the Times, that was distasteful).

Imagine the horror of poor, and somewhat illiterate in a LOLcat way, Jessica B, who lives in the state of Georgia, USA, to hear the news yet not, when the TV was turned off, even be able to see or hear the heavy machinery of war at her door. Thank Goodness Yahoo Answers and its immense army of commenters was there to allay her concerns.

You best find out - http://thingsididlastnight.com/

(Neverending thanks to the ever-delightful Katrina for the tipoff. The Poorhouse knows well that she understands that it's only funny because it's true.)

They say behind every good-if-recently-neglected website is a good feline. And they are right. It is with, admittedly somewhat bittersweet, joy & excitement that the announcement must be made that the inspiration behind most every money saving tip, the entire gamut of goat news and much much more is leaving the country to fulfill her destiny as an explorer-faced world wanderer, in what could be termed the ultimate goat research trip.

It's a massive loss to UK society to be sure in the short term, but luckily our Kat, a fully documented explorer and adventurer, is not leaving her army of fans empty-handed. Those in the know, wham yourselves onto what could be the best thing to hit t'interwebs since, ooh, ye olde b3ta perchance: Kat among the Incans.

First post is up, for such a net-aware girlie it maybe seems a little risky as far as ventures go, but based on the historical record of other blog-announced parties, the Poorhouse expects it to be huge. See ya there.

Now we live in a world where high-speed Internet access is almost as essential to modern rich-guy life as say water, net neutrality is a potential hot topic. Net neutrality refers to the historic practice of your ISP granting (kind of) equal access to the internet, no matter what you do with that access – subject to legality au naturelle. From Google's – who of course have a vested interest in this – guide:

Network neutrality is the principle that Internet users should be in control of what content they view and what applications they use on the Internet…the broadband carriers should not be permitted to use their market power to discriminate against competing applications or content.

Tesco ...it may basically own you and your planet, and indulges in an indecent amount of world-ruining evil-doing to please its share-holders whenever possible, but it seems it does share one Poorhouse trait - the concept of what constitutes luxury items.

Yes, the weekend was so fascinating it became necessary to flick through the illness-inducing nonsense that constitutes modern-day groceries just to keep the brain active. Imagine the Poor-joy when finding the "Special Occasion shelf" within the biscuit aisle. Surely this would be the nearest to heaven section available in Tesco, full of chocolate marshmallow caramel laden crunch beautiful oaty hobnoby goodness? YUM! Biscuits so tasty you could only rationally eat them on real down-to-earth special occasions, as their site claimed, must be god-damn fine, no? Well of course. The 2nd entry down on this shelf did indeed remind the Poorhouse of special times, and his agreement as to suitability is probably why people don't like to come visit all that much. See below for the glory.

It being mother's day - and full sympathy to any mothers - it seems rather appropriate to laugh at the inane efforts of the younger of the world's population.

And look at that...c/o of B3TA and some other sources, here is a link to Photo Basement's 41 Hilarious Science Fair Experiments. And "hilarious" is a fair description.

What could be more interesting on a weekend than an article about Microsoft Office? I know...a story about the most common aspects of it that everyone knows about anyway.

Those of you with recentish incarnations such as Office 2003 may be aware that unless you tell it not to, Office monitors (parts of) what you're doing and reports back to big bad Microsoft which collates this information, hopefully to inform their designers and developers rather than another step towards world domination. So guessy guess time: what were the most used commands in Word based on this data (circa 2006 anyway)?

Cheapskate mofos, forgetful idiots, the Poorhouse is proud to point you in the direction of the ultimate Valentine's day cards to keep everything sweet with the wife / mistress. You still have at least 6 hours to download this, print out on the office printer, steal an envelope from the stationery cupboard and throw in the general direction of your intended.

And if you need some inspiration for what to put in it, the Poorhouse can heartily recommend the eighth poem down on the page which appears to be highly inaccurately titled "Short Funny Valentines Poems". Well, funny is as funny does one imagines, but the Poorhouse has laughed harder elsewhere.

Who doesn’t love "corporate social responsibility"? Yep, CSR, that token greenwash effort a lot of companies try to pretend that they actually care about yourself and the environment nearly as much as they care about the bottom line.

As such, it wasn't that surprising to be sent the following email, anonymised a bit in a vague attempt to prevent the source from job-loss.