Photo by anniebee. It’s not the world’s biggest carousel today — real-life seemed to take priority over compulsively browsing the internet this week! However, I present to you… Delicious photos! 10 magazine, Into The Night, The Enchanted Garden, A Private World (Tim Walker!), Evoluzione della specie (so good) & bawoooooons! Famous bisexuals in history. Don’t ask me how I found this, haha. But it’s really interesting! Homeland Security Guidelines Get More Bizarre By The Year ...

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I was browsing some articles and I came across an excellent piece regarding the eloquence of the Qur’an. This is a subject that I have recently started reading about more and more, and I really wish that it is something that was highlighted to me much earlier on. We have had a number of articles about the eloquence of the Quran, mostly by Br. Nouman. The paper below is written by Hamza Tzortzis. According to ...

Recently, I wrote about the ability to search Google Profiles, single pages with Google user information similar to a social network profile. I also noted that with things like a voting widget and ...

在最近的PDC大会上，微软推出了与Oslo相关的重大技术。Oslo到底是什么？根据Oslo的FAQ： “Oslo是微软的模型驱动开发平台的代号名，Oslo的目标是，通过把模型驱动应用变成主流，提供十倍以上的生产力增益。这个平台的核心是特定领域（domain-specific ）的模型，语言和工具： • 一个名为M的语言，用文字的形式编写领域模型 • 一个名为Quadrant的工具，用图形的方式编写领域模型 • 一个用于管理领域模型的Repository • 一个带有预制领域模型和语言的库 在一起，这些构件将使得一个团队能更有效地开发、实现和维护应用和服务。” 这里是一些相关的资源链接： Oslo 开发者中心 http://msdn.micro... Oslo SDK October 2008 CTP 下载地址 http://code.msdn.... PDC上与Oslo相关的讲座录像 A Lap around "Oslo" （对Oslo相关技术的综合介绍） http://channel9.m... "Oslo": The Language （对M语言的介绍） http://channel9.m... "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs （对如何建造文字形式的DSL的介绍） http://channel9.m... "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience （对Quadrant工具的介绍） http://channel9.m... "Oslo": Repository and Models （对存储中心的介绍） http://channel9.m... David Chappell的《Workflows, Services, and Models - A First Look at WF 4.0, “Dublin”, and “Oslo”》 http://msdn.micro... 对其中的一段的草译，“Oslo的主要目的是使模型成为跨越应用开发周期（创建、部署和管理）的一个基本部分。在Oslo中，模型是某种东西的抽象表现，譬如一个业务过程，一个应用，或一个工作流程（别把这里的“模型”的概念与其他场景（譬如UML）中的同名术语相混淆，两者并不等同）。不是把模型的概念局限于只在设计过程中使用的描述性图表，Oslo允许模型成为应用本身的一部分。例如，一个WF工作流程可以使用Quadrant来创建，并储存于repository之中。这个工作流程是个模型，该模型存在于repository之中，但它同时也是工作流程的实际逻辑。改变模型意味着改变工作流程本身，这意味着模型和这部分的应用逻辑总是同步的。Oslo repository不仅仅可以保存应用的模型，当然，一个应用的其他部分还可以居于repository之外。然而，把模型从只是描述一个应用变成实际应用本身的观念，对于Oslo来说，是至关重要的。” ...

(Cartoon taken from The Hughtrain etc.) Like I said in my interview with Mark Earls, The Blue Monster is a "Purpose-Idea". As Mark explains it:Put really simply, the Purpose-Idea is the "What For?" of a business, or any kind of community. What exists to change (or protect) in the world, why employees get out of bed in the morning, what difference the business seeks to make on behalf of customers and employees and everyone else? ...

Photo by Timmy Kern! Welcome to Friday, gorgeous! Voilà, a bumper edition of Carousel for ultimate procrastinatory purposes! Tina Su writes about How To Overcome Resentment. I love Tina! I want to give her a big hug! Come to New York, little lady! On that subject… Overheard In New York: Well I’ve been trying to cut back on MSG, toughest granny ever & umbrella cheer! I discovered a whole bunch of great new blogs on ...

Isaac Asimov is the only author to have a book in every Dewey-decimal category. LINK: Googlebooks. ShareThis

The smallest Carousel ever, perhaps! Made for super-short people, or just those of us with a lot to do! Here we go… Feel free to add anything neat you’ve found to the list! How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut. Lagerfeld Discusses His Childhood in a New Documentary. From what I saw in Lagerfeld Confidential, his upbringing sounded fairly dysfunctional. I love me some Karl, though, so I can’t wait! Whee! On that note, ...

Here’s a quick job search hack for ye. Clients ask all the time: “How do I figure out who’s hiring?” Especially when the job market is tight, people don’t want to waste their time chasing openings that don’t actually exist. My first answer is always: check the want ads. Sounds dumb, I know, but if you do a regular scan of the want ads in the paper or online, that’s the rawest data available. Especially ...