Metaversal Studios has an iPhone game called “Hot Dog Down a Hallway.” In it, you launch a hot dog…down a hallway, tilting the iPhone to avoid traps. The game features some mildly risque humor—and I use “mildly” in the strongest possible terms, if that contradiction makes any sense. Anyhoo, Metaversal submitted a bug fix (v1.2) of the game, which was (say it with me, now) rejected for explicit content.

The nuttiness that is the iPhone App Store has finally reached the destination it’s been heading towards: Apple has banned an eBook for containing dirty words.

CNET’s own David Carnoy has a new detective thriller out called Knife Music, but you won’t find it on the App Store.

That’s because when Carnoy enlisted a software developer to submit the book to the App Store, Apple rejected the book for containing “objectionable content,” citing a clause in the iPhone SDK that states: “Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”

Let’s all pause for a moment to think about the idiocy of this…