We first learned about it via Twitter this morning: “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice,” one friend updated, and then another, and another, each expressing escalating amounts of dread. Now, The New York Times tech blog Bits confirms it: Facebook has had to shut down Scrabulous, the Scrabble-like game that’s become wildly popular over the last couple of years. Scrabble maker Hasbro filed suit against the makers of Scrabulous in January, and indeed there is now a licensed beta version of Scrabble available on the social networking site. Still, we know how much you love wasting time on the internet, so we imagine more than a few of you are in a panic over the death of Scrabulous. Feel free to use the comments as group therapy.