Maybe they should build a version for bloggers…
If you’re the kind of person who types tipsy and regrets it in the morning, Google’s “Mail Goggles,” a new test-phase feature in the free Gmail service, might save you some angst….
The feature requires you to solve a few easy math problems in short order before hitting “send.” If your logical thinking skills are intact, Google is betting you’re sober enough to work out the repercussions of sending that screed you just drafted.
And if you can’t multiply two times five, you’ll probably thank Google in the morning.
Goggles is in the “Google Labs” section of your GMail settings. You can set the days and times you want it to be active. And the level of difficulty for the math problems.
Here’s the Google Blog entry about the feature.
Via The Chronicle’s Wired Campus, “The tool is named after ‘beer goggles,’ the slang term college students use to describe how inebriation can make a potential mate seem inexplicably attractive.”