iPhone and the Philosoraptor

My wife and I bought a couple of iPhones yesterday. Since the new 4g ones just came out, the 3g ones are on sale, and if you get the family plan, it's a pretty good deal. Bottom line: my wife needed a phone and it would cost only $10 or so more a month to go ahead and get two iPhones on the family plan than to stick with my current phone and plan.

Many people in my family - my brother, sister(s?) and my Dad, at least - have them, and while I've played a bit with them, I hadn't had a full idea of what all they can do. And they can do some cool stuff. There are many applications having to do with philosophy, some are very useful, some are silly. For silly, I've enjoyed the Philosoraptor app.

Who is Philosoraptor? From the Urban-Dictionary:

Philosoraptor

A philosophical cousin of the velociraptor, that originated on 4chan, and was adapted from the advice dog meme. It's commonly used as an image macro with a picture of the philosoraptor's head, one talon poised under its chin, as it ponders the deeper questions of the universe. It is generally accompanied by a riddle, pronoun or philosophical issue, or a parody of one of these, that the philosoraptor is currently mulling over. The text is usually divided, with half the text appearing at the top of the picture, and the other half at the bottom.

If actions are stronger than words,

(picture of Philosoraptor)

why is the pen mightier than the sword.

Examples:






There are other somewhat silly apps, like iNietzsche, which gives you more or less random Nietzsche quotes. But there are useful apps, too. For instance, you can download iBooks - apple's pdf reader made for iPad - and put it on your iPhone and then read pdf books/docs. Very nice, but the text is quite small.

Also, you can download language learning and other educational apps, which is nice. Many of them are free.

I only got it last night, so I'm still messing around with it.