I am amazed every time I need some detailed information on a given topic at the thorough in-depth articles on Wikipedia. To think that an entirely volunteer unaffiliated group of people from around the world can produce a research tool of such magnitude in a few short years! If you haven't added it to your favorites yet, you are definitely missing out. I haven't cracked open a paper based encyclopedia in the last two years and probably won't need to again (unless I'm disconnected from the internet). Of course, as with any source of uncensored information, you have to use caution. It is definitely written in a humanistic world view, though every precaution is taken by contributors to remain "unbiased". (IMHO there is no such thing as unbiased) Anyway, check it out when you're working on your next research project. I've even contributed to some of the articles myself.

Posted on June 6th, 2006 by Josh Champagne
Filed under: Computers & Technical