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Bailouts – Yep, There’s An App for That!

November 11, 2009 by Big Al  
Filed under Tech/Sci, Top Story

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iphone-appsThere is an application for just about everything for your cell phone including an app called Bailout News by Martian Technology. Unfortunately, it only covers bailout news for the top ten companies that accepted bailout money and doesn’t include a bailout for Americans struggling to make ends meet.

Dom Golio, the author, wants to help you understand where your hard earned money is going. Hidden taxes in gasoline, travel taxes, ‘sin’ taxes, fishing taxes, and excise taxes account for some of it, but there’s more!

* Examine your utility bills, paychecks for ‘hidden’ taxes
* Question why some states have higher taxes but get same services
* Ask representatives whose interests they really represent
* Understand why illegal immigration is a burden for the whole country
* Recognize the need to cut services

Bankrupting Joe the Taxpayer With No One to Bail Him Out

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Apple Stops Selling iPhone Baby Shaker Game

April 24, 2009 by Robert Paul Reyes  
Filed under Weird Stuff

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“Apple Inc. pulled a 99-cent iPhone game called ‘Baby Shaker’ from its iTunes store Wednesday after its premise — quiet a crying baby with a vigorous shake — prompted outrage.

According to screen shots posted on several Web sites, ‘Baby Shaker’ displayed black-and-white line drawings of a baby. The iTunes description included the line, “See how long you can endure his or her adorable cries before you just have to find a way to quiet the baby down!” Once the iPhone owner finishes shaking the device, the on-screen baby is depicted with large red X’s over its eyes.”
This silly and innocuous game really shook some people up, before you could say “get a grip” the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome cried bloody murder. 
It’s just a game folks, no real babies were harmed in the development of this Apple application. iPhone users who play this game aren’t going to be inspired to shake their babies. There isn’t going to be an epidemic of babies with red X’s over their eyes. 
If Apple approved a program that simulates farting, I don’t see why they pulled Baby Shaker from its iTunes tore. 

I can’t stand a crying baby, but even an old grouch like me isn’t going to shake a baby to make it shut the hell up. 

I wish the iTunes store would sell an application that would lull a crying baby to sleep — that’s an app that would be a universal hit.  
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