You'd think this was the hottest news item of the week, the way EVERYBODY seems to find this new Gmail feature so fascinating.

My blog post from about a week ago about Google's new feature in Gmail, Mail Goggles, drew a few comments from friends on mine on Facebook, but that was dwarfed by the media attention it got from... well, all over the place. It seemed everyone was talking about "drunk email" (or "inebriated emailing" as I like to call it), and whether or not this was a useful feature or the single stupidest thing ever developed by a programmer.

First, Chelsea Handler on her late-night talk show Chelsea Lately brought up the subject in one of her panel discussions. Then the veritable New York Times published an article on the subject (which—perhaps surprisingly—managed to get onto their Most E-Mailed list). The even more veritable satirical rag, The Onion, chimed in with one of their American Voices person-in-the-street insets.

Strangely enough, the Onion's contribution to this discussion appeared in the print version of the paper last week, but did not show up online until over the weekend. My theory: the Onion's internal editorial content management system prevented a drunk editor from publishing the bit until Sunday morning, when she was sober and could do math. :-)