Tech Note 31 offline; no moof is good moof?

2 Pierre-Alain Dorange:

Thank you, the site is superb!!! I really enjoyed surfing it.

The "nest of the dogcattle" was removed february 2004. I own a web site dedicated to Clarus : "Clarus Museum" (see link below) so i follow Clarus news... In the Apple Campus Garden, the Clarus model was not the sicn the original "z" from Cairo font (designed by Susan Kare in 1984), so it's in fact the first Clarus picture (she was not named at that moment). "the nest of the dogcattle" was archived and can be see here : Clarus Museum (i'm redesigned it) :

hey there, jay's a bit late on the beat here, that tech. note has been missing for awhile. there were actually three named dogcattle. clarus is the famous one (and yes, the name was a quasi-poke at the then-formed "claris"). there was also lackey the obnoxious talisman dogcow (it hung above cubes of newbies in dts), and moofo the psychic dogcow (a nod to a penn and teller act of the time called "mofo the psychic gorilla"). the icon garden, weirdly, included the wrong icon (the sicn instead of the icon). it's my understadning it was removed at the behest of steve jobs. also, technically, the removal of that garden was a violation of an agreement with the city of cupertino -- apple had told them that public art would be available on that spot (i *think* it was in response to the builing of infinite loop in front of the r&d campus) and then put up all that icon weirdness. that mousepad matt has is valuable. especially if you still have the numbered information card, which aside from the technote, was the only other "true" piece written about the dogcow (it included mention of clarus's favorite food, which is found nowhere else). chris derossi found five still-sealed old ones and we sold them about a year ago on ebay -- i think he got more than $1,000 for the set one-at-a-time. also, as an aside, pierre omidyar, founder of ebay, worked at claris for awhile (and for me at general magic when he built action web/ebay -- but that's another story). my point, if i actually have one (and i may not), is that if you're going to get all whacked out about stuff like this changing, you should keep an eye on it yourself -- otherwise your fandom smacks of "me too-ness." because it was gone a long time ago. pax, m. p.s. just how fitting *is* it that i can no longer donate blood because i lived in england for two years, and am considered a bovine spongiform (aka mad cow) risk? p.p.s. thanks to scott "special k" knaster for pointing me at this site.

To my knowledge, the Icon Garden has long since been removed, and only exists todady as a QT VR movie.

No, Apple took down the icon garden a while back, but the name of my business has been for many years, in homage to Apple's work, icongarden.

Do they still have the icon garden?

[pour one out for the Dogcow homie]

I owned a puce green Dogcow mouse pad for the longest time. I received it at an Apple II developers conference held at a convent in Kansas City (but that's a different story.) It included inside the shrink wrap a story on the origins of the creature. May Clarus rest in peace. Matthew

So was Claris, Apple's shortlived software branch, a riff on Clarus the dogcow?

It will always be here: http://web.archive.org/web/20040202021201/http://developer.apple.com/products/techsupport/dogcow/tn31.html