Apple, as puritan as any US company, has pulled all sexual apps from the iTunes store after “complaints”. Mysteriously, all the violent games remain. A MacRumors reader put it very succinctly:
So boobs are bad, but murdering cops is ok. Got it.
Mind you, these apps are all rated for 18+. So you have to wonder how these complaints even are possible. If you are a concerned parent pull the rating-switch on your child’s iPhone!
Late last year I have built the back-end for a very slick online game called MegaMythen. In this game you can play with the ancient Greek Gods and travel up mount Olympus. This game has launched today and it looks even better than I had imagined. The gameplay is very intuitive and smooth. I urge you to check it out even if you don’t play games at all: www.megamythen.nl.
It’s one of the most tedious aspects of my job: cross-browser testing. Meaning: see if the stuff I have developed looks the same in all browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari and -ick- IE too). Luckily this can be automated, saving me lots of headaches and lots of different computers. Ta-daa! Litmusapp.
Since I am tired of Googling it, I am going to post the commands required to start a new local branch in git, then push that to the origin, then pull it in to continue working on it. If you don’t know what I am talking about, that’s fine. I do. 
I love open source. And I love contributing to open source projects. Every time one of my patches is accepted into a project, I can’t help but smile.
One of the sites I maintain, www.radio1.nl, was recently bombarded by GeenStijl. This is the Dutch equivalent of a slashdotting. The app held up quite well, even though I hadn’t explicitly hardened the application.
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the internet and after seven days places a bid on eBay for itself.
For once a web app not done by me, although I did the single-sign-on in the back end. The Z@PPmixer is all new and improved. It’s a tool (FOR KIDS) to create online mashups of video, images and sound and share them with others. Top voted mixes are broadcast on national TV.