Comedy website Something Awful sends up the App Store

You can’t really call yourself an internet nerd - and who wouldn’t want to? - if you don’t spend time on the comedy website Something Awful. Its daily front page news items, while not as consistent as they once were, are occasionally genius.

Last Saturday’s wasn’t genius, but it was funny. And it was about the iPhone, which gives me a neat excuse to talk about it, even though it also sends up the Top 10 features that Pocket Gamer so loves to produce.

Under the heading ‘This Month’s Least Downloaded iPhone apps’ are such gems as Public Bathroom Phone Number Organizer, a ‘social networking’ tool from Infinitum Labs; and Shakespeare Portrait Labeler, a tool that automatically places the words ‘William Shakespeare’ across pictures of The Bard.

Go on then: one more before you go and look at the full article on Something Awful. One Ska Beyond is a reference tool filed under ‘application’ which ‘Keeps track of how much has time has passed since anyone at all has cared about ska, down to the nanosecond!'