October 7, 2008
No More Drunken E-mail Blathering on Gmail!
While it'll be a pity to lose the belligerent/drunk/meth-induced emails the SFist inbox receives from midnight to 3 a.m. every night, we would be remiss to point out Google's latest application, one that helps reduce the amount of drunken emails you send out during one of those kinds of nights.
According to Webmonkey, "Gmail developer Jon Perlow created Mail Goggles as a kind of e-mail sobriety test. It works by stopping your message when you hit send and then presents a series of simple math problems you need to solve before you really send the e-mail."
While these math problems aren't too difficult -- well, for most of you, anyway -- it's designed as a sobriety test for for hitting "send." It's default is set to filter late Friday and Saturday night e-mails, but you can adjust it accordingly. Go ahead and enable it now by visiting the Labs section, selecting the times you want, and saving your changes. And -- voila! -- your appearance of sobriety will be restored in no time.
Now go on and drink with impunity, gentle readers.
(Thanks, kmsinsf, for the tip!)
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That only took me 43 minutes!
Jesus... I need one of those for my SFist comments.
2 weeks too late, alas.
Damnnit!
Try enabling it and jack the difficulty setting up. I consider myself to be pretty fantastic at math, but on the highest difficulty, I struggled... sober. I can see how I'd totally screw it up in 60 seconds.
I need this thing on my cellphone. Fuck I cant even imagine how this could have saved me from the day after shame. Did i really send that.
Too bad I have a calculator on my computer. I don't think this will help much.
I love it!
Facebook needs one of those too.
oh man. they need one of these on cell phones to stop drunk calls