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Those crazy cats over at Wired have devised a list with 15 of the lamest of lame tech mascots. The predictable choices are there, like Clippy from MS Office fame. But there were even some newer entries, like the scarier-than-Hell Jester from Adobe CS 3.

But they crossed the line when they subjected Clarus the Dogcow to the list. You do not mess with that half dog/ half cow because she’s been through way too much in the last 24 years.– Ben Longo

Lamest Technology Mascots Ever [Wired]

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Clippy may be dead and gone, but here’s a video of him trying to do one last good deed before being killed off. If you’re not familiar with Karl Rove, check that link. – Jason Chen

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With recent tragedies surrounding our space an pornography programs, one major death has been passed over by the media. We are speaking of the late, not-necessarily-beloved Clippy who was brutally murdered out of Office 2007. Here is what Jensen Harris, Office Group Program Manager, had to say about the recent death.

One of the tenets that we had about the new UI in 2007 was that we only wanted to create one way to get to all features. We didn’t want to have menus and toolbars and Clippy as parallel, slightly different ways of getting to the features, so Clippy as a way of helping you decode cryptic menus and toolbars didn’t make sense, because we didn’t have those cryptic menus and toolbars anymore…it Although I think that social user interface wasn’t ready for the mainstream yet

At the age of 10, Clippy was just a child at (his?) death. In private, Clippy often spoke of leaving the office behind for a simpler life. We hope that he found it…wherever he may be.

Also, I freaking hate Clippy.– Mark Wilson

To Kill a Paperclip [appscout]
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Not too long after MobileESPN breathed new life, now we’ve got the unfortunate duty of informing the world that Microsoft finally axed the most annoying aspect of Office has decided to leave “Clippy” behind in Office 2007. We suspected something was brewing when the iconic figure started donning a 3D skirt in Japan, but a brief interview with Office’s group program manager revealed that the clip is indeed dead. While it had been fading for awhile due to an apparent lack of mass fanfare, and was even turned off by default in Office 2003, it seems that Clippy fans will be forced to stick with now-antiquated versions of the Office suite in order to keep their darling on screen. But don’t fret too much, as the countdown until someone crafts a freeware app re-instilling a Clippy rendition into Office begins… now.

[Via ChipChick]

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