Tag Archives: Google

Google Reader rocks

How did I never use this product before? It’s amazing. I now read 10x more blogs than I did before I started using it. I think that’s a good thing, but who can be sure.

Can I get this on my cell?

Google has invented a program made specifically for me.

This week, as a post on the “official Gmail blog” puts it, the problem to be cured is angry or embarrassing emails sent by drunk people.

Gmail plans to offer “Mail Goggles,” a kind of sobriety test to make sure a sender is sober enough to send a message. Rather than test the sender’s alcohol blood level, the program prompts the user with a series of math problems (69-38 =?, 11×2=?, and so on) which must be solved within a time limit.

The program’s default setting is for late at night on the weekend, when, as the blog says “you’re most likely to need it.”

Jon Perlow, the Google worker who wrote the post, says his inspiration for the product was “the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message.”

God, I wish the worst I ever did was tell someone I had a crush on them.