Send a short poem to someone important in your life. Poem shows up in the subject lines of the email inbox.

poem_sender.py

# Inbox Poem Sender
# Concept by Chris Stones 
# welcometochrisworld.com
# March 24, 2009
#
# Fantastic gmail email code by 
# http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html

import time
import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os
 
gmail_user = "YOURGMAIL@gmail.com"
gmail_pwd = "YOUR_GMAIL_PASSWORD"
 
def mail(to, subject, text): #, attach):
  msg = MIMEMultipart()
  msg['From'] = gmail_user
  msg['To'] = to
  msg['Subject'] = subject
 
  msg.attach(MIMEText(text))
 
  mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
  mailServer.ehlo()
  mailServer.starttls()
  mailServer.ehlo()
  mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
  mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
  # Should be mailServer.quit(), but that crashes...
  mailServer.close()
 
to_her = "ToHERorHIM@theiraddress.com"
 
# the poem part
# Your poem should be a list of strings
poem = ["Simple to hear",
  "to Listen to touch",
  "But so far away",
  "almost a crutch",
  "still you are here",
  "at home in my heart",
  "and so functionally speaking",
  "we never do part"]
 
# when the e mails are in the inbox they are first line last 
# so we send in reverse order		
poem.reverse()
 
for line in poem:
	# delay so that packets can reach 
	# their destination despite network delay effects
	time.sleep(10)
	mail(to_her,line,line)
 
#nothing to it

Could use a serious update. Perhaps, something that uses the OAuth tokens etc. And a cli interface.