If The Department of Defense Starts Probing reQall, Be Scared

A recent New York Times video got my mother interested in reQall, a to-do list/reminder/calendar thingy with many interesting features, notably the fact that you can add items with your voice. Of course, because speech-to-text technology still isn’t 100% accurate, hilarity could occasionally ensue:

>From: reQall
>Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 11:53:24 +0000
>To: <Withheld so you won't spam my mom>
>Subject: Added: Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank....
>
>Added to reQall:
>Look at Joe's gold in the Swiss Bank.

That’s not exactly what I said. I said ‘look at Joe’s goals in the system.’ Whatever…

The botched transcription touches on the suspicious. If you decide to hop on reQall, make sure you don’t slur your words reminding yourself to “show up at” your son’s football game. An innocent mistake by the system could cause a suicide bomber panic at Giants stadium.