Are you as smart as Dilbert?
One of my favorite non-acquaintance blogs is by Scott Adams. His writing style is very readable and often “hold back the tears as you try to laugh silently because you’re at work” funny, as you would expect from the creator of Dilbert, but can also be about serious stuff as well (saving the planet, world peace, politics, etc). Some of the things he writes about are truly fascinating. Well, fascinating to me at least, but then this is the elementalgeek blog – what do you expect?
In this post he mentions that:
Dilbert has been used in several court cases where an attorney tried to demonstrate the date when obscure technical issues became “common knowledge” and therefore something that a reasonable person should know. The importance in the court cases is that a defendant couldn’t claim ignorance about something that is so widely known it can be included in a Dilbert comic without explanation.
It appeals to my inner geek that a comic strip has become a symbol of human knowledge but also nags at the back of my brain that something so pop-culture is becoming so authoritative. So what do you think? A) Neat, B) troubling or C) egeek has too much time on his hands?
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By the lone gunman, August 28, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
neat.
By Not "The LG", August 29, 2008 @ 12:12 am
D – All of the above.