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Clippy Is Back… But As A Game, Which Is Still Bad

11:00AM May 1, 2011 | Kwame Opam

I remember hating it when Clippy popped up for no good reason while working. Now, even after Microsoft officially put him to rest, he’s doing it again. Only this time it’s in game form. Which is marginally better, I suppose? More »


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How I Made Clippy Lovable

5:01AM September 9, 2010 | Clifford Nass with Corina Yen

Clifford Nass is a Stanford professor specialising in computer interaction. In this excerpt from his new book, The Man Who Lied To His Laptop, he talks about how he made Clippy lovable. More »


Geek Out

Oh God, Clippy Has Escaped To Meatspace

1:11AM October 27, 2009 | Adam Frucci

It looks like you’re being clever. Would you like me to help you post that to the internet? [Reddit via The Daily What]


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Clippy Adds Copy and Paste to Jailbroken iPhones

4:40AM January 21, 2009 | Mark Wilson

It’s not App Store approved, but for those in the audience who’ve jailbroken their iPhones, the Clippy add-on offers some reasonable functionality to copy and paste across apps.

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