The goggles do nothing!
Monday, 6th of October, 2008 at 11:11 pm by Dan
There is a classic episode of The Simpsons where Renier Wolfcastle is shooting a movie scene in a nuclear power plant and is given a pair of saftey goggles to protect his eyes from a tub of acid that is going to be spilt during the scene. During the scene, things go horribly wrong and Renier is swept away while saying “My eyes, the goggles do nothing!”

Google just released their own “goggles” feature in gmail labs, meant to ensure you do not send out a potentially regretful email late at night. The feature works by asking you to solve a set of arithmetic problems before you are allowed to send out your email.

The idea of being required to solve long arithmetic problems before being allowed to send emails is an awesome idea in my opinion. I recommend bumping the difficulty to level 5 if you want to try it. I set the difficulty to 5 to begin with, and given the simplicity of the equations at that level, I’d hate to see how easy the lower levels are.
I think I’ll have a lot of fun with this one!
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