Google Helps Curb Boozy Screeds

Mail Goggles works late on the weekend to make drunken email tougher to get to
By Ambreen Ali,  Newser Staff
Posted Oct 7, 2008 12:52 PM CDT
Google Helps Curb Boozy Screeds
A Google Doodle entry is shown at the Doodle Museum at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

If you've ever, after a few drinks, sent an email you later regretted, Google's got a gadget for you, InformationWeek reports. Mail Goggles, a play on those beer goggles that make you see (and think) fuzzy, activates late night on weekends “to verify you're in the right state of mind,” the company explains, “making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send.” (More Google stories.)

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