I use the HTML5Boilerplate method :
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.js"></script>
<script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.5.1.min.js'>\x3C/script>")</script>
EDIT
Btw... IE6-IE9, Firefox, Chrome, Safari Opera, $be undefined. , , , :
(function($, window, document, undefined) {
})(jQuery, this, document);