Carrying on its tradition of announcing important breakthroughs on April 1, Google announced today its new “custom time” feature for Gmail. You can now back-date an email so that it appears in proper sequence in the recipient’s in-box. Say, for example, you forgot to email grandma on her birthday. No problem; use the “custom time” feature and send an email from the past! Although this might raise some problems with respect to the space-time continuum, Google explains that “Gmail utilizes an e-flux capacitor to resolve issues of causality.”
Also today, Eisenbraun’s has put out a new catalog of resources for the study of the ancient near east. I’m particularly hankering after the cuneiform typeface insert.