Microsoft Tries to Explain What Its .Net Plans Are About. Two years into its quest to create a new kind of Internet-enabled computing it describes as .Net, Microsoft found it necessary to pause Wednesday and try to explain what it meant. By John Markoff. [New York Times: Technology]

Xbox breaks US sales records. Blockbuster launch titles [The Register]

Thestar.com/Ex-Sierra Leone dictator broke, living with mom [lnk.to]