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Oct8
We’ve all sent emails we regret after stumbling back home late at night in a fog of alcohol-fuelled bravado - a pathetic plea for reconciliation with an old flame, forwarding furry porn to your grandma, or accepting job offers to work at Metro. The sign of an ill-advised night is no longer a traffic cone on your oven the next morning, but something titled ‘IVE WANTD TO SAY THIS FOR A LONG TIEM JEREMY’ lurking guiltily in your Sent Mail folder.
If only there was some kind of drunkenness detector that could stop you from baring your virtual soul to loved ones and authority figures after a night on the funny juice. Well, now there is.
Google have just unveiled a feature for Gmail called Mail Goggles. It allows you to specify times and days when you fear you might be a bit tipsy (say, after 11pm on Fridays and Saturdays) - and if you try to send an email after that, it’ll force you to take a sobriety test.
If you’re not of sufficiently sound mind to complete some basic arithmetic puzzles……then you’re also not in any fit state to be emailing anybody.
This is great step forward in making the internet booze-compliant. Now, if somebody could just make similar drunk-filters for Twitter, Facebook, MetaFilter and this blog, then we could finally enjoy the glorious world of alcohol without the lurking terror that we’re going to end up doing the web equivalent.
Source - Metro
Picture Courtsey - Gmail Blog
16 Responses to “Gmail Unveils Drunkenness Detector”
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What if you just suck at math?
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You can suck my math joe you homo
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Sucks to be you!
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Limbojoop October 10th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I bet a lot of people have a hard time at this sober.
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If you suck that bad at math, then you shouldn’t be using a computer.
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Then you don’t deserve to be alive.
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\\\//\\/// October 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
if you just type the simple maths problems into the google taskbar and it will give you the answer
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Anonymous October 10th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Then you shouldn’t be on the internets.
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I agree with Joe. I fail at math. 37 + 19.. well i would use a calculator for that… or my fingers and toes
But seriously, I don’t like the idea of math for a drunkenness detector myself. Its a fairly good idea (for optional stuff), but i would rather have some sort of word or logic problem. -
Guess you could just hook up a breathalyzer to your computer?
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what about the person who doesn’t have the ability to do math. some people need a calculator to do simple math. are we looking at a class act law suite here.
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On the flip side, what if you’re really GOOD at math?
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There’s a bunch more stuff, like changing Gtalk to the right side of the screen, adding buttons (i added “mark as read”)!
I checked it out after reading this article.
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Goatboy October 21st, 2008 at 12:54 pm
What if you’re fairly average at Math? Good enough to get those questions right when sober, less likely to when drunk.
Then this would be an average gimmick.
And what if God was one of us?
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noodles November 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
^Just a slob like one of us?
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OR……What if you just don’t enable it to start with?
Or……Don’t get drunk..Oh, forget that.
