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...Mail Goggles makes me answer "8 x 2" twice. I use this opportunity to tell my cousin that her feet smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...wine and try to tell a friend that his hipster arm tattoo is going to look ridiculous when he gets older, but I can't type the words correctly and I get stumped on 517-139. I keep forgetting to carry the numbers. "Water and bed for you," says Mail Goggles, but then it lets me try again. And again. My insult succeeds on the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...know what? I should e-mail my ex-boyfriend, even though we're not on speaking terms. Mail Goggles makes me divide 42 by 7 but otherwise has no problem with my incredibly bad decision. Maybe the program would work better if it filtered certain phrases like "What's your deal?" or "jerkface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...write one last e-mail, apologizing for the previous e-mail, but I'm too tired to do the math...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

Conclusion: Mail Goggles' math questions are too easy to deter any but the sloppiest of drunks. However, my last e-mail remained unsent. If you have to do math at 2:30 in the morning, you're more likely to stop sending e-mails because you give up, not because you actually get the answers wrong. As a purely dissuasive tool, then, Mail Goggles works as advertised. Of course, there's still the text message, the Facebook message and the good old-fashioned drunken phone call. There are plenty of ways to humiliate yourself if you try. And for those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testing Google's 'Drunk E-Mail' Protector | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

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