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In Defense of Baby Shaking on the iPhone

April 27, 2009 - 7:46pm — Bibliofuture

Apple pulled a baby shaking application from the Apple App's Store recently. The NYT Bits blog has a piece titled, "In Defense of Baby Shaking on the iPhone" that makes comparisons to libraries and bookstores. Some of the library refrences are in the comments to the piece.

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April 27, 2009 - 9:06pm — effinglibrarian

someone paid money for that??????????

the video shows a picture of a baby, like an ink drawing, and when you shake the phone, red Xs appear over his eyes. then you repeat with another picture.

people pay money for this crap? you mean I could have an "assassinate Lincoln" app that does the same thing? have a picture of Lincoln; shake phone; then have some red stuff appear.... what about Kennedy? Garfield? McKinley? how much would someone pay for the privilege of "killing" the president?

holy crap... I'm going to be a millionaire!

April 27, 2009 - 10:33pm — StephenK

the404 talked about this

The CNET morning zoo show, the404, talked about this in a recent episode: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13952_1-10225974-81.html?tag=mncol;title
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April 28, 2009 - 6:19am — Anonymous

"Kill the President" iPhone app

so, what do you think? should I whip up an app for killing Lincoln? really, if people would by something like this, then the whole human race, or actually, Apple-owners, should all just kill themselves now. wasn't there a time when Apple-people felt they were better than everyone? so this "baby-killing game" and even the "president killing game" says *what* about them now?

April 28, 2009 - 6:21am — effinglibrarian

sorry. thought I was still logged in.

I'll take the blame for the killing-the-president iPhone app.

April 28, 2009 - 4:22pm — Auntie Nanuuq

We Can Add.....

Can you add: Let's kill; Castro, Peron, Cheney, Hitler, Mussolini, Franco...et. al.?

Mr. Effing...you know people pay for worse crap than this..... Hell listen to some of the "music" people download! But I do have to agree with you......

It's all a part of the sickness we carry as a society made up of morally deficient lost souls.

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April 28, 2009 - 4:23pm — Auntie Nanuuq

BTW

There is No defense for this type of app.

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April 28, 2009 - 7:09pm — Auntie Nanuuq

Update

I just asked one of our staff members about this... The result of his search was "This app is no longer available"

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