Cool Science

Not a pretty sight out there on wall street. Maybe look somewhere else for some good news?

I was pretty floored when Jenn sent me the story about Google's Mail Goggles. Google's creative lab guys got the idea to write a program that won't let you send an email unless you answer a bunch of math questions, correctly and in time (ooh, word twist: mite, mit, met, tie, item, emit).

So this is to prevent you from sending emails you would later regret because you were mentally compromised (let's be candid: drunk); if there is any doubt that they are poking a little fun at enebriated email sprees, the default timing of this "feature" is for weekend nights. Using math as the sobriety test is slightly awesome. To come to the point here, it shows what quite a few of us have known for some time (wait for it....): you can't drink and derive.