I really wish I had an iphone so I could have gotten this app before it was pulled.

The vitriol in the comment section of the TechCrunch page saddens me, even given the content. It seems that people really can’t help but take themselves far too seriously. You don’t like it? Don’t buy it. No one is making you go shake any real babies.

Maybe 5% of the commenters agreed the app is an awesome concept (if anything, it needs more gore). A few people even pointed out that it could maybe SAVE the lives of babies if a temperamental parent was unaware that shaking their bundle of screams and poop was something that could, y’know, permanently shut the thing up (assuming that is not actually what the parent wanted).

Probably the best comment (from BubDZombie):

This is the worst thing I’ve seen since ‘A Modest Proposal,’ which I’m still trying to get banned from libraries and schools.

Everything old is new again. I’m sure the point was lost on everyone who needed it.

It must be fun to be a new-age techno witch-hunting bookburner! Too bad I have standards that aren’t easily threatened by books, video games, and other media.