Posts tagged as Iphone Apps
Jew App Riles Frogs
"Computer giant Apple could face legal action in France over an iPhone app which tells users whether thousands of celebrities are Jewish or not. The application’s designer, who is Jewish himself, says he invented it for entertainment not racial profiling."
New App Helps iPhone Owners Be Even Bigger Assholes
"If you wish your cellphone banter sounded less like something overheard on Jersey Shore and more like an evening with Ian McKellen, then a new iPhone app developed by a team of poets, graphic designers and computer scientists at Concordia University in Montreal could be just the thing to improve your oratory flair. The Victorianator is a game in which players score points for how well they master the techniques of Victorian elocution, from giving words their proper inflection to accenting their delivery with appropriate gesticulation." [Via]
If You Lose Your iPhone You Will Have A Baby
For the latest example of Americans' growing inability manage their own lives without the help of a trendy technological device, let's meet Doug Wilson of Arkansas. READ MORE
Algorithm Helps Determine How Much Longer You Will Be Able To Enjoy Sweet Nicotine
"Osaka-based game software and graphics developer Proge Inc. has created a free software application to help smokers roughly determine how many years they have left on this planet based on their age, the number of cigarettes they smoke each day and how many years they have been slaves to nicotine. Users input the data into the 'Death Meter' and a countdown until their likely demise appears on the screen over the image of mocking Grim Reaper with a cigarette between his boney fingers." READ MORE
Why Tuesdays Suck
Hey, Science, I'm feeling kind of down. Any idea why? "According to researchers from the London School of Economics, our moods are at their brightest on Saturday, with the weekend feelgood factor continuing into Sunday. But while levels of contentment drop when the working week begins on Monday, it is on Tuesday that we reach our lowest ebb." READ MORE
New iPhone App Adds All The Excitement Of Exercise And Number Crunching To Fucking
This one's from the Sun, so take its origin story with a grain of salt, but anyway:"A WOMAN desperate to get her lazy boyfriend to exercise has invented an iPhone app that measures how many calories you burn off having sex. The 59p download, called the Bedometer, analyses the time and intensity of each romp.... The gizmo is put on the bed and measures raunchy activity using the iPhone or iPod Touch's motion sensor before adding up the calories." Listen, ladies, I don't care how badly you want your boyfriend to exercise: If he's only willing to have sex with you when there's an iPhone alongside you in the bed, something is very, very wrong.
Where The Yobs Are
On Knifecrime Island, persons perpetrating anti-social behaviors which are not considered to merit prosecution are issued an Anti-Social Behaviour Order, or ASBO, which is supposed to prevent them from engaging in those behaviors. Offenses for which an ASBO is issued include drunkenness, intimidation, violence, vandalism, and shoplifting (i.e., being British). Now there's a free app that will tell you just how lairy the hoodies in your current location are! READ MORE
Mussolini iPhone App Leaves Room For Improvement
It feels like Italy Day here at The Awl, right? Anyway, a new iPhone application that collects the text from over 100 Benito Mussolini speeches is a big hit in that country. As Der Spiegel reports, though, there is controversy. READ MORE
Boobies Discovered On iPhone
Here is where you can go to find an app for your iPhone that features boobies. For other images of boobies, use your iPhone to search the Internet.
It's The Virtual Girlfriend iPhone App!
I'm not usually one to cry sexism or yammer on about society's objectification of women, but even I am disgusted: This avatar of femininity is offensive to everyone. Vapid, giggly, and made up in a babydoll aesthetic that suggests women exist solely to fulfill the basest fantasies of men, this appalling spectacle fills me with self-loathing and a general distaste for the way in which heterosexual desire exerts itself on our culture. And the girl in the iPhone application is somewhat distasteful as well.
