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If you're like us, at some point in time, you've come home alone after a long night of frivolity and felt, well... nostalgic. You stumble over to the computer, take a seat on that cable spool you keep around for a chair and launch into a long e-mail to your ex-girlfriend. You tell her everything you never told her. Everything. You wake up the next morning, drenched in sweat, head pounding, and a new piece of e-mail is in your in box. It says something about never talking to you again, or a potential restraining order.
Well, the good folks at Google have something for you. The new Mail Goggles application ensures that you're in your right mind before you fire off that e-mail. Before you hit "Send," a window containing five math problems will pop up. If you can answer all five problems correctly in the allotted amount of time, Google will deem your e-mail guilt-free and send it on. If not, well, you'll be thanking them in the morning.
By default, Mail Goggles takes charge on late weekend nights. But, fortunate for graveyard shift workers who tie one on during the daylight hours, those time parameters are fully adjustable. [From: Gmail Blog]
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Subscribe to commentsQmDDTOct 8th 2008 2:15PM
THAT is Hysterical!
JennOct 8th 2008 2:24PM
OK...good idea, but I could solve the sample math problems they show if I was already passed out. That won't stop me from drunk e-mailing. It might stop some poeple though.
JulesOct 8th 2008 2:41PM
Very funny and great idea. Jenn, sorry, but have you been hitting the sauce already??? Your comment doesn't make sense and even sounds slurred, besides perhaps being mistaken in word choice (should your sample math be simple math) when read aloud? Ha, ha. :) Someone should also come up with a way to default drunk dialing to exes, family, or friends. Ha, ha. No wonder the phone and cable companies can stay in business even during our now difficult economic times. Take care all. This was the best laugh I've had in a long time, and have been guilty myself before. As Sarah Palin might say, "those gosh darn exes can sure get to you sometimes." Ciao for now. Go Democrats.
ShellOct 8th 2008 3:03PM
No, I think Jenn knew just what she was saying...if you checked out the sample of the math questions.....they were unbelievably easy.
Exp. 11 X 2= ______
Couldn't you answer that no matter how plastered you were???
margoOct 8th 2008 2:38PM
this is the most fantastic idea .....not only when you are drunk... but when you feel desperate in the middle of the night and you start writing e.mails... that you always regret ....if you have to think logical before.. I am sure can be helpful.
scaredycat66Oct 8th 2008 2:40PM
Great! Now if they can just stop me from drunk dialing!!
JennOct 8th 2008 2:48PM
Nope, no sauce for me!!! If you click through, they have a selection of "sample" math problems. It may not flow perfectly, but I said what I meant