Send In Those Invites

I meant to post this a couple of days ago, but luckily my daily rounds of website checking reminded me to. Wil Wheaton (via his site WWdN) and some other nice people have come up with a great idea for helping our troops currently overseas: www.gmail4troops.com and www.gmailforthetroops.com.

What's Gmail, you ask? It's Google's new free e-mail service, which offers users storage of 1 gigabyte. That's a good chunk of hard drive real estate. It's free, but it's in beta testing right now, so you can only join if an existing user invites you (each new account gives you three invitations). So, the idea behind these sites is to send those invitations to soldiers overseas who could use the extra e-mail space to receive more pictures and movies from home, without worrying about deleting things due to paltry storage from Hotmail accounts and the like. Good stuff. I'd do it if I had an invite.