Other stuff
Chrisdrop - Tangible Functional Programming
Thomas - PowerShell on Server Core
Razan Paul - A simplified non topic based Event Notification Server in wcf with multiple protocol support.
Mike Taulty - VS 2008 Service Pack 1 - Docs and Installation
Robert Pickering - Immutability and Concurrency – Part I – Getting to Know Immutable Data Structures
The Moth - Parallel Extensions library is well received
Jim Holmes - Book Review: The ThoughtWorks Anthology
Sacha Barber - Beginners Guide To Threading In .NET Part 1 of n
Omer van Kloeten - Extension Methods Roundup: IndicesWhere, TakeEvery, Distinct

Career stuff
Kris Olson - Hiring a Consultant to Write Your Business Plan: What Does It Cost?
bspcn - 16 Tips For Getting Good Sleep

Other link blogs
Steve Rubel - links for 2008-05-18
Alvin Ashcraft - Dew Drop - May 17, 2008
Arjan Zuidhof - LINKBLOG for May 17, 2008

Database stuff
Kalen Delaney - Did You Know? Free SQL Server Troubleshooting Tools
Chris Brandsma - SQL Parameter Sniffing and what to do about it
Tony Rogerson - Non Recursive Common Table Expressions - Performance Sucks 2 - ROW_NUMBER() is executed {number of CTE references} x {number of rows from the anchor}

Debugging stuff
Dmitry Vostokov - WinDbg 6.9.3.113 lost type discovery?
Inside F# - DebuggerVisualizers in F#

Web stuff
Mo Khan - Spikin' MVC