Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed 3-Dimensional space. With Photosynth you can:

• walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle;
• seamlessly zoom in or out of a photograph even if it's gigapixels in size;
• see where pictures were taken in relation to one another;
• find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing;
• explore a custom tour or see where you’ve been; or
• send a collection to a friend.

check it out..

This is real good news. MSDN library which used to be subscriber only downloads are now free.

You can download MSDN Library May 2006 Edition @ http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=373930CB-A3D7-4EA5-B421-DD6818DC7C41&displaylang=en

Updated content sets in the May 2006 Edition include:

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
• SQL Server 2005
• Microsoft Knowledge Base
• Internet Information Server SDK
• Internet Security and Acceleration Server SDK
• And More...

MTPS Content Service is an XML web service that provides access to the content stored in MTPS. This includes, for example, the content available at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library. Using the MTPS Content Service, developers can integrate documentation, technical articles, whitepapers, images and the other content available from the MTPS system into their own applications.

Announcing the MTPS Content Service
MTPS Content Service Documentation
msdnman - Command-line MSDN documentation viewer

India's newest communications satellite and the nation's largest rocket were both destroyed during a dramatic failure just moments after lifting off today. The vehicle crashed into the Bay of Bengal a few miles offshore of the launch site after disintegrating in mid-air.

The INSAT 4C satellite lifted off into cloudy skies shrouded atop a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle at 1208 GMT (8:08 a.m. EDT), or in the late afternoon at the Satish Dhawan Space Center on the island of Sriharikota on India's east coast.

Problems with the flight began soon after the launch, according to Indian news reports. The rocket began straying from the planned trajectory and officials then declared an emergency. The remnants of the GSLV and its payload plummeted into the Bay of Bengal. read more...

With its powerful 3D capabilities WPF provides a leap forward in user experiences; but how do you create compelling 3D models and then make them available to your applications? In this Channel 9 video, Microsoft UK’s Richard Godfrey interviews the developers of Shaxam (www.shaxam.com) about their experiences and approach to building a Lightwave 3D to XAML convertor. Michael Stocking, Mark Hennessy-Barrett, Alex Young and Steve Kennett have all played a part in creating a friction-free way of building impressive WPF applications using complex 3D geometries such as the human heart shown in this clip.

Check this Museum of Beta. Actually its not a museum of antiquities its actually site that is listing webbased applications that are on a beta trip.