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God beaten by love and kisses (but still doing very well)

Google Zeitgeist record their search trends for 2007. “Who is God?” is the most asked who is type of question, but there were more searches for “What is love?” and “How to kiss?” in their respective categories. These are taken only form the US Google.com site, not from other Goggle sites around the world.
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Students and Wikipedia: some (limited) facts

Okay, I’ve probably raised Jim West’s blood pressure by including the words Wikipedia and facts in my post title. I continue to stand by my view that Wikipedia has its place for the student who knows how to use information sources critically. And now a new piece of research suggest that some students, at least, [...]

Is Google evil?

Google’s famous early mission statement is “Don’t be evil”. But has this changed? Claude Mariottini notes this post by Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel, which offers a Jewish argument about copyright.
In Judaism, a different source is looked to address copyright issues, hassagut gevul (”infringement of boundary”) … the issue discussed was attribution of authorship rather than [...]

The curse of computers

The short hiatus in blogging which will probably continue to the weekend comes from a major crash, which seems to have been the result of some conflicting new hardware and or software and or Windows updates, which I’m still having to track down. It’s necessitated a complete wipe an re-install (which was overdue maintenance anyway, [...]

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