Le Petit Dummy for iPhone

During the summer of 2009, Bill Lindmeier and I decided to create an iPhone app. We had an idea in mind and though the idea was most definitely low-brow, we thought the challenge worthy of our efforts. So down into the gutter we climbed to begin working on the app that would become Le Petit Dummy.

Everything was going as planned. We were making great progress. Then it happened. Something entirely unanticipated. The more time we put into developing the app, the more it became respectable. Lo, our gutter-born brainchild was maturing! It sprouted wings of respectability and soared. The depths whence it came were now but a speck. It defied our intent and expectations and blossomed into something magical.

So, what does it do? What DOESN’T it do!

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