The alcohol-fueled, after-bar emailing session! A venerated tradition that’s worse than a drunken phone call because it involves spelling and it’s archived, forever.
But, as Gawker reported, one American Hero/Gmail Engineer has designed a program that will prevent you from sending drunk emails.
It’s called “Mail Goggles” and it harnesses the power of simple arithmetic to keep you from embarrassing yourself.
When activated, Mail Goggles will gently remind you that “it’s that time of day,” and will then ask you to solve a series of math problems before allowing you to send an email. You can set it to only do so late at night, and even switch around the difficulty of the problems.
And speaking of brilliant Google features, the company has honored their tenth anniversary by bringing back their index from 2001. Put in a search, and it responds like it’s 2001. For example: Meet a young upstart from Illinois named Barack Obama.
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@hehe First thing I did, before reading comments, was Google 2001 Sarah Palin. Just shows what’s on all our minds… I wonder if she was built in 2003?
@... lame. truly interesting (read: embarrassing) alcohol fueled email binges are interesting because of the drunken determination and george bush style stubborn poor judgment behind them. no retarded barrier will stop any of the good stuff from getting through and will only stop the stuff that wasn’t that interesting or embarrassing to begin with.
@The Good Ol Days... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=gasoline+prices&hl=en&btnG=Search
@yes, you do do it without putting sarah palin alaska in quotation marks.
@... “lehman brothers”
@pre ipod days http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=apple+iPod&hl=en&btnG=Search
@HAHA I bet Sarah Palin would fail this even when sober.
@For me This is useless. I need one for texting, Google.
@ewww hahaha
@... My favorite was “bushwick hipsters” — 7 hits. Oh me oh my. You could make a lot of money buying 2001 real estate, except in 2001 real estate wasn’t on the internet.
@more... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?hl=en&q=%22september+11%2C+2001%22&btnG=Google+Search
@haha http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Lee+Bollinger%22&hl=en&btnG=Search
check out link 8
@Wow, It was a simpler time.
http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=paris+hilton&hl=en&btnG=Search
@In other news: http://web.archive.org/web/20010517002121/www.wikipedia.com/
@contrast http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Joe+biden%22&hl=en&btnG=Search
Yeah, yeah, I know her being off the Washington radar is part of what makes her a novelty, but she doesn’t even come up with any google hits?! What the hell was she doing (or not doing). I was 15 back then and I have like 5 hits.
@Well shit, You DO go to Columbia, don’t you?
@... Clearly you had five hits at the age of 15 because you are an elitist out of touch with the joe six packs of Main Street.
You know what she was doing? Taking her kids to hockey practice… And of course, working on the cessation of Alaska
@haha well in my defense i was underage :).
@haha http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22sarah+palin%22&hl=en&btnG=Search
@dammit you beat me to it.
@interesting... if you google “Sarah Palin Alaska” without the quotation marks, you get results
@... http://www.google.com/search2001/search?q=%22Sarah+Palin+Alaska%22&hl=en
No you don’t…