Ever gotten home, high on paint fumes and brillo pads (or whatever it is that gives you your kicks) and sent a belligerent email which seems to make all the sense in the world? Nine times out of ten, the email in question not only failed to get your point across, but it contained the word “fuck” more than it did vowels. Enter the Mail Goggles, an application designed to perform a perfunctory sobriety test before you send that ill-advised tirade against your partner/member of parliament/Shiva the destroyer.
The program asks you a series of tricky little math questions before your message is sent. The only problem? I can barely count. Seriously, I struggle adding more than two things together. Which would effectively mean I’d never be able to send any emails, unless I hired some sort of math-solving monkey. And then Bernard Hermann and I (yes, I named my math monkey after the film score composer) will roam the country solving crimes. Come, Bernard! Let us dance!
/Paul
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1 Taylor // Oct 10, 2008 at 1:29 am
Perhaps not as cool as the You Tube comment filter, but someone at Google is clearly thinking outside the box.
And Paul, two Shiva references in as many posts? Impressive.
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