Lots of chatter about Bill Gates leaving and still quite a bit about TechEd. 

Signal to Noise Ratio = 17:259

Data stuff
Microsoft Downloads - ADO.NET Technical Preview - Entity Data Model (June 2006) and Next Generation Data Access (June 2006)
patricg - Physical Database Storage Design

Career stuff
Presentation Zen - Biz gurus present
Kim Kurtz - Dead on Arrival.
dzone - Good Reading for Development Managers
Andrew Garrett - Making your voice
Om Malik - Of Bill Gates and Goals
Microsoft Monitor - Where Do You Want to Go Tomorrow?

Other stuff
Dennis vad der Stelt - Copy constructors
Rick Strahl - Fun with User Access Control in Vista... Argh!!!
Scott Hanselman - Quicksilver for Windows - Eh...soon...Colibri is close
oldnewthing - Understanding what significant digits really mean
Eli Robillard - Web Deployment Project, MSBuild, and WAP Resources

Agile stuff
James Shore - Informative Workspace

Community stuff
Steve Schofield - Local .NET user groups - attend one!

Web stuff
David Wang - Thoughts on Debugging IIS7