It was inevitable. The more we mock and disdain Clippy, the more he weasels his way back into our lives and conceivably even our hearts. I mentioned last month that Microsoft itself was bringing Clippy back as an educational-adventure game character. And, thanks to reader Saul Tannenbaum, here is a video of a keynote address given at ROFLcon by... the man who created Clippy! His name is Kevan Atteberry, at left in the shot below, and as you'll see he has mixed feelings about his achievement. Pride at having created such a familiar bit of iconography (and having done so on his Mac); chagrin at how his brainchild is viewed.
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