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Topic: Dilbert


  
  Dilbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work praised.
A larger number of Dilbert comic strips reflects general frustration with the bureaucratic administration at the company, whereas a generally satisfied workforce sees less identification with the character of Dilbert, and consequently fewer Dilbert comic strips are displayed as mementoes.
Dilbert was named the best syndicated strip of 1997 in the Harvey Awards and won the Max and Moritz Prize as best international comic strip for 1998.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dilbert   (2884 words)

  
 SALON: Hero of a Thousand Workspaces
Dilbert is a bespectacled bucket-head with a perpetually upturned tie and a pocket-protector worn as a coat of arms.
Dilbert came into his own as the digital age's Everygeek -- a Good Soldier Schweyk just trying to survive the corporate trenches while mad generals led suicide charges against phantom foes.
Dilbert's human colleagues are most often found running around like little windup toys with arms outstretched, or occasionally surrounded by concentric vibration lines as if in the throes of slow-motion electrocution -- as in the banner screen of "Dilbert's" phenomenally popular Web site.
www.salon.com /weekly/dilbert960603.html   (1279 words)

  
 Dilbert TV Show - Dilbert Television Show - TV.com
Dilbert is a cubicle dwelling employee for a large soulless corporation.
Dilbert faces the ethical dilemma of selling out his integrity for the chance that he might get together with a real woman.
This show is about Dilbert and his friends Wally and Alice who all basically live in cubicles and their pointy haired boss.
www.tv.com /dilbert/show/940/summary.html   (716 words)

  
 Dilbert’s Ultimate Home
 Dilbert’s “great room” is his relaxation  area with a two-sided fireplace.  This is where Dilbert brings the Christmas tree each year and  plugs it into a special floor outlet installed expressly for that purpose.
Dilbert figures that when he has kids, the quiet room will be a great place for them to be seen but not heard.
Dilbert cleverly designed and built his house before getting married, so his workshop is inside the air conditioned space, adjacent to his home office.
recenter.tamu.edu /news/12-1104.html   (783 words)

  
 Dilbert Aterriza en 'Su Ordenador'
Dilbert es un simple personaje de cómic que ha acaparado la atención de los navegantes y de los lectores de periódicos, que siguen sus viñetas en la Red de redes o en multitud de diarios.
Dilbert es un modelo para todos aquellos que se encuentran desencantados del mundo laboral.
Dilbert es el típico personaje que ama la tecnología por sus propios méritos y que entiende que vestirse para el éxito significa llevar una corbata con la punta doblada hacia arriba, una camisa blanca de manga corta y calcetines extrablancos.
www.el-mundo.es /dilbert/llegada.html   (901 words)

  
 Trivia Asylum - Dilbert Characters
Dilbert dated her, she broke the dating off with a rejection brick.
Dilbert noticed she wasn't wearing a ring and asked her to go for a pizza after the soccer game.
Dilbert had a 'date' with her to grout her bathtub, in the past he has cleaned her rain gutters, painted her house, installed a sprinkler system and rebuilt her car's engine.
www.triviaasylum.com /dilbert/diltriv.html   (4834 words)

  
 Technorati Tag: dilbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dilbert is Dossy in cartoon form, it's the only explanation
The Dilbert Blog is a surprisingly cogent and coherent source of discussion about current events led by the creator of Dilbert, Scott Adams.
Dilbert does a satire on Google care of John Battelle Dilbert Does Google "Their company motto is 'Don't Be Evil.' It's not as if they have a death...
www.technorati.com /tag/dilbert   (510 words)

  
 Dilbert's Desktop Toys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Yes, Dilbert's Desktop Games is a prime example of little thought and high hopes.
Dilbert's Desktop Toys is funny, but only as ghastly self-referential humor.
Dilbert's Desktop Toys is the sort of software I expect from Dilbert's pointy-haired manager.
www.worldvillage.com /wv/gamezone/html/reviews/dilbert.htm   (592 words)

  
 LP News May 1999 - The great 'Net debate: Is Dilbert a libertarian?
That "official" judgment was rendered after an innovative Internet debate over whether the Dilbert comic strip -- which focuses on the trials and tribulations of Dilbert, a high-tech office worker, and his sardonic pet, Dogbert -- is libertarian or liberal.
The rules of the debate were simple: Lott and Burlingame each contributed an opening essay arguing their case, were allowed to ask and respond to three questions from their opponent, and then submitted a closing rebuttal/summation.
When his turn comes, Burlingame valiantly fights back, arguing that Dilbert is actually a "left-wing, pro-labor cartoon." He also rejects Lott's definition of a libertarian, writing: "I have my own definition of a libertarian, which is a person who does not think the Republican Party is mean enough."
www.lp.org /lpn/9905-Dilbert.html   (817 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Dilbert
Dilbert began syndication from United Feature Syndicate (Ferd'nand, Twin Earths) in 1989, and immediately struck a responsive chord with office workers at every level.
Dilbert merchandise isn't very popular with the kids, but adults, who can relate to the style of workplace it depicts, buy scads of desk calendars, pocket protectors and other office supplies with his picture on them.
The art style in Dilbert is comics' most minimalist since Barnaby and The Little King — but whereas that was a creative choice for Crockett Johnson and O. Soglow (creators of those toons), with Dilbert it's because Scott Adams basically doesn't draw very well.
www.toonopedia.com /dilbert.htm   (452 words)

  
 Dilbert's a weasel and so are you - Salon
"Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel." Those corporate bad boys like Enron CFO Andrew Fastow are just the top of the weasel pyramid, having perfected the slippery backstabbing that all of us exhibit in our smaller-scale, sniveling, pathetic ways.
In the boom years, when spending more time with your co-workers than your family was considered a point of pride, not a sign of lifestyle psychosis, "Dilbert" spoofed the work culture that seemed to gobble up ever more hours.
And, during that dot-com bubble, when geeks were chic, Dilbert was our iconic geek anti-hero.
www.salon.com /tech/feature/2002/10/21/dilbert/index.html   (513 words)

  
 Dilbert - Versão Portuguesa
Provando que a caneta é mais poderosa que a espada, os cartoons Dilbert, que satirizam a vida dos negócios, aparecem em cerca de 1550 jornais e revistas de todo o mundo.
Parecido com Dilbert nos óculos e no "dom da palavra" é inteligente mas muito cínico.
Tal como Wally, está integrada na equipa de Dilbert, a que dá um toque feminino.
www.centroatl.pt /edigest/dilbert   (280 words)

  
 CNN.com - Scott Adams: Dilbert's Ultimate Cubicle - August 28, 2001
Scott Adams -- creator of "Dilbert" and one of the most avidly read cartoonists in the career universe -- has always made his e-mail address available.
The leader of the IDEO project team for Dilbert's Ultimate Cubicle is designer Fred Dust.
"Dilbert" devotees, however, need not worry that Adams has had such a good time and created such a cushy cube that he's forgotten their pain.
www.cnn.com /2001/CAREER/jobenvy/08/28/dilbert.scott.adams/index.html   (1364 words)

  
 The Comics Curmudgeon » Dilbert
Also funny: the fact that Dogbert has, in the time it took Dilbert to screw up a job interview, been able to not only win the lottery, but transform his winnings into burlap sacks of cash (with dollar signs on the sides, natch).
Also, apparently the fact that Ziggy is lying on a couch and talking to a bearded man in a suit with a notepad doesn’t convey psychiatry clearly enough to the unwashed masses, because there’s a little sign to that effect hanging in the background.
Dilbert or another sympathetic character responds with a cynical yet keen and cutting observation revealing the evil and/or stupidity of his/her superior.
joshreads.com /?cat=15   (1377 words)

  
 Metroactive Books | Dilbert Bashing
Dilbert mocks the "induhviduals" who keep a man from doing his job, but on the larger issues of corporate malfeasance, Adams is mute.
Dilbert's wistful grousing about badly run companies is, as Solomon suggests, a safety valve that doesn't release any real pressure.
Considering the use of Dilbert in employee manuals for Intel, Xerox and Lockheed, This Modern World cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (who contributed the foreword to Solomon's book) has proposed the next step: a Dilbert@termination notice to take the sting out of a layoff.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.04.97/comics-9749.html   (818 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Dilbert: The Complete Series: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dilbert – the most popular comic strip of the decade – is now on DVD.
With his signature turned-up tie, round glasses and buzz cut, Dilbert is already a pop culture phenomenon, providing an irreverent reference point for workers everywhere.
I may be biased from living in "Dilbert's world" all day, with this being the *last* thing I'd want to watch.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000WN15E   (932 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Dilbert
Two of them, "The Dilbert Principle" and "Dogbert's [Top Secret] Management Handbook" are found in the Business rather than the Humor section of my local library -- an early sign of the oddly exulted place Dilbert occupies in our culture.
And these predictions are not mere assertions but are supported by almost-logical commentary of Adams' own fabrication, by strange-but true anecdotes sent to him in the more than 350 e-mail messages he receives (and apparently reads) daily, or, best of all, by the slanted accuracy of his daily cartoon panels.
Not surprisingly, the Dilbert future is a place in which stupidity reigns supreme.
www.bookpage.com /9706bp/nonfiction/thedilbertfuture.html   (541 words)

  
 Floor Management Netwerk - Goeroes - Dilbert
Scott Adams is de geestelijke vader van de strip Dilbert, die wereldwijd in meer dan 1500 publicaties verschijnt, waaronder Intermediair.
Dilbert is de ingenieur met de verkreukelde stropdas, die in zijn hokje ('cubicle') zit te zwoegen voor een bedrijf dat geen enkel doel dient.
In Dilbert komt iedere keer kritiek op drie thema's terug: de steeds grote wordende obsessie rond werk, de vele manieren waarop bazen hun personeel eronder proberen te houden en de groeiende ergernis over steeds maar meer managementsnufjes.
www.floor.nl /management/dilbert.html   (308 words)

  
 Dilbert : Return of the blue duck!!
In an episode of Dilbert, he was ordered to make "art".
So after some surveys and market testing Dilbert found that the perfect picture was of a simple blue duck.
The duck ends up becoming extremely unpopular after Dilbert’s boss is seen with it painted on his belly at a football game.
www.eeggs.com /items/8267.html   (219 words)

  
 The Dilbert Future: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which principally ridicules its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) often as an intended...
The dilbert principle refers to a 1990s satirical theory....
(dilbert and the way of the weasel labels the everyday actions of humanity as neither consistently honest nor criminal,...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_dilbert_future.htm   (715 words)

  
 The House of Hock
All new posts from me(Dilbert) will now be posted at Bava Dilbert because of the problem with spam comments(I dont have access to the controls to stop them.
It could be that different aspects of our beliefs have been muted or expressed to a greater or lessor extent either to agree with or provide more seperation from the outside philosophical milieu.
Therefore, according to this line of reasoning, a ban such as the one that came out on R. Slifkin's books, declaring them to be heresy, is not only a reasonable Halachic outcome, but binding on those who choose to follow the rabbis who pronounced the ban.
houseofhock.blogspot.com   (8034 words)

  
 Dilbert.com - The Characters
Dilbert loves technology for the sake of technology.
He's got the social skills of a mousepad and he'd rather surf the Internet than Waikiki (which, considering the physique he developed after years of sitting in front of a PC screen, is a blessing).
Dilbert, Dogbert, The Boss, Wally, Alice, Asok the Intern, Catbert, Ratbert, The Garbageman, Dilbert's Mom, The Dinosaurs, The Elbonians, Carol the Secretary, Tina the Tech Writer, Mordac, Ted, Phil
www.unitedmedia.com /comics/dilbert/the_characters   (228 words)

  
 scott adams
‘dilbert’ is a satirical comic strip about a micro-managed office environment, designboom interviewed cartoonist scott adams.......................................
dilbert is a composite of my co-workers over the years.
dilbert was launched in 1989 after several months
www.designboom.com /eng/interview/adams.html   (806 words)

  
 Scott Adams, Drawing the Line
Those two hours take him from initial pencil sketch to the final inking of such beloved miscreants as Dogbert, the evil management consultant, who emerges from the pen in "one unbroken smooth line" that extends from his nose to his tail, Adams said.
Adams was diagnosed with the condition -- a neurological movement disorder, marked by involuntary muscle spasms--back in 1992, around the time he launched "Dilbert." The problem affects his right hand -- the one he uses to draw.
Only his very closest followers may have noticed subtle differences in recent strips -- like Dilbert's too-skinny arm and oversized nose -- while the cartoonist was mastering the new technique.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/09/AR2005050901066.html   (1551 words)

  
 Pharyngula::Scott Adams is a Wally
I suppose you have to realise that Dilbert is a comic popular amongst office workers, accountants, and the like - people with no knowledge of science and people who are probably Republicans and therefore likely to be anti-science and judge-sides based on rhetoric.
I remember reading in "The Dilbert Future" about how he thinks gravity could just be an illusion and everything is just rapidly doubling in size.
Yes, I've always enjoyed Dilbert comics (I swear Scott Adams knows my ex-boss) but I have read a few of Adams' "philosophications", including the chapter that Constantine mentioned, and I think his brilliance as a cartoonist is no reflection of his brilliance as a thinker in general terms.
pharyngula.org /index/weblog/comments/scott_adams_is_a_wally#comments   (2893 words)

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