Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on March 17, 2008 by CyberNet.

I couldn’t believe my eyes this morning when I read this post over at Google Blogoscoped. It appears that some of the backend for an Easter Egg has been added to Google Docs to make fun of the “thing” Microsoft created back in Office 97 dubbed Clippy. I know, it’s a touchy subject for me as well, but the code in Google Docs points to the Google “Cliply” that you see pictured to the right.

What’s pretty funny is that in their code they specify the strength, charisma, and more of the putrid “paperclip”:

writely.Cliply.init({
'strength': 0.4,
'dexterity': 0.9,
'constitution': 0.7,
'intelligence': 0.1,
'wisdom': 0.3,
'charisma': 0.8});
}

I guess it could be worse… Google could actually make the eyes follow your mouse pointer which would freak out a lot of people. No, there doesn’t appear to be any way to enable Cliply at this point. Thank goodness.

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