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...Internet is not the real world. In a real job, a person does something useful. Giving away pictures of funny-looking cats would not count. In the real world, if someone approached a passerby on the street and offered to trade a red paperclip for his or her house, he would probably be ignored, or laughed at, or punched in the face. But, somehow, such encounters are possible on the Internet—and the Internet came alive at MIT this past Friday and Saturday at the first-ever conference for Internet phenomena: ROFLCon. ROFLCon’s mere existence...
...faux insects, named Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs), even physically resemble insects, weighing less than a paperclip with a two- to three-centimeter wingspan. The only thing is, these micro-creatures haven’t yet left the ground...
...senior thesis “Why People Hate the Paperclip: Labels, Appearance, Behavior and Social Responses to User Interface Agents,” Luke Swartz, Stanford Class of 2003, interviewed Word users and ran an original experiment with different “agents” to find out if Clippy’s failure was “one of implementation or one of concept.” That is, is it inherently annoying to have a little creature proffering help in a computer program or is there potential for a truly useful Clippy...
...particular dislike for the Office Assistant, unlike Evan Hepler-Smith ’06, whose passionate hatred for Clippy inspired him—“like any good revolutionary,” Hepler-Smith says—to start the facebook group “Fuck You, Paperclip from Word.” Swartz has tried all the characters and writes in an e-mail that he thinks that some of them have “pretty cool animations...
...also doesn’t find any of them “particularly helpful.” So unlike Becky James ’06, co-creater of the pro-Clippy facebook campaign, “A Group about the Cuteness and Niceness of the Paperclip from Word,” Swartz has his Office Assistant turned...