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Season’s Greeting

Season’s greetings to all GUB readers. We are looking forward bringing you even more informative and useful comments and reviews on gadgets we use in 2007.

I hope you had a safe and happy Christmas in the last few days and that those that have some time off are enjoying the holiday season.

GUB will continue to let you know about new gadgets as we test them and use them and try and work out if they enhance the user experience and help us get through what ever it is we need to get through in our daily lives!

Try not to over-indulge this Christmas, but as my grandmother used to say, “There is always room for too much!”.

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Wikipedia contains plagiarised articles

So says the….
The Sydney Morning Herald

Wikipedia critic finds dozens of examples of plagiarism, prompting administrators to delete several entries pending a review.

Well, Wikipedia is in good company with most of the world’s major news providers. In this information age, there is often a certain level of plagiarism. Wikipedia is, not surprisingly, no exception to the transgression of plagiarism. However, let’s not throw the baby out with the bath-water. It still is useful, and we suspect, the greater level of plagiarism actually happens the other way round as far as Wikipedia is concerned.

Academics are concerned at the number of students quoting Wikipedia as there only source for research. This is of more concern. A diversity of research sources, which should include peer reviewed texts and papers is critical to excellent scholarship.

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Hmm Interesting

Google to allow free downloads of public domain books - Breaking - Technology - smh.com.au
Google Inc. on Wednesday plans to begin letting consumers download and print free of charge classic novels and many other, more obscure books that are in the public domain.

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