Email has made the possibility of sending your grandma those nudie shots you were planning on sending to Suicide Girls far too easy. These type of "Send … OMFG WHAT DID I DO?!?!" scenarios happen to even the best airlines, and today it happened to "struggling" media agency Carat.

Some toolbag in Carat's HR mistakenly emailed the entire company a little memo that was intended for senior management only … about how everyone was getting fired.

Bad news: Mistakes are all too common when it's 4 a.m. and you are typing corporate memos while intoxicated or looking to a go to town on your bed partner.

Good news: There are some handy guides for appropriate workplace email etiquette that should help you through the rough period after all your employees stage a coup.

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Slate's respected political reporter John Dickerson pulled the ultimate idiot email move this week: Instead of emailing a note to its intended recipient – he needed a "stupid but important question" answered from Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor – he emailed an entire slew of reporters. We hope he's kidding when he says "all 8,600" of you.

All Dickerson needed to know was this: "Was axelrod at chicago hq when he did conf call yesterday? it's a scene lede for my piece….." It turned into yesterday's lede: "When Barack Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod, spoke to reporters on a conference call Wednesday, you could hear a siren in the background. It was just the usual city sounds outside of his Chicago office, but it matched the emergency tone of the call."

How did the email mixup happen? It's unclear, and lucky for Dickerson, the email was an innocuous one. But as Eli Lily's attorneys know all too well, many of them are not.

Apology email after the jump.

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A New York Supreme Court judge made a preliminary ruling to deny CBS’s motion to dismiss ex-anchor Dan Rather’s $70 million lawsuit against them.

The judge, Ira Gammerman said, "I concluded there was enough in the complaint to continue with discovery (pretrial research).”

Rather’s lawyers want access to internal CBS emails, which could get uncomfortable if their office is anything like ours, where NSFW links and derogatory remarks are sent around constantly.

CBS is pretending to be happy that the judge is still (only a little bit) considering dismissing the case, and released the following statement

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Is email the new telegraph? With the pre-pubescent set using twitter, IM and Facebook instead of email, the tech folks at Slate think the electronic letter is dying.

Of course, Slate’s deck head for technology articles is “The Future And What To Do About It,” which seems excessively foreboding.

The point is that teenagers, who mind you, are the future, don’t have the patience for e-mail.

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