Bush by the Numbers, as Told by a Diligent Scorekeeper [Washington Post]
Bush has spent a whopping total of 250 days of his presidency at Camp David (123 days), Kennebunkport (12) and his Texas ranch (115). That means Bush has spent 42 percent of his term so far at one of his three leisure destinations.

The more colorful critiques from Zagat [lnk.to]

Xbox Linux Project gets SuSE 8.0 running. By George, they might have got it… [The Register]

Of PowerPoint and Pointlessness. The number of teachers using PowerPoint presentations in class is on the rise. This raises a question among education theorists: What is the point? By Joanna Glasner. [Wired News]

MSN Wallet Takes Hassle out of Online Shopping [Microsoft Press Releases]
I don’t have any idea how this is different then the orginal service, except mabye one’s data is in a seperate DB.

MS Outlook digital sigs easily forged. Send Billg a spoofed email from himself [The Register]

Apple’s x86 OS named, sized. Project Marklar [The Register]

Wanna Bet?. Conflicting visions of a more distant future, and wagers in search of a taker. By Amy Harmon. [New York Times: Technology]

Bush’s Buddy Economy [The New Yorker]
“Almost none of the C.E.O.s on the Bush team headed competitive, entrepreneurial businesses. The majority of them, in fact, made their bones in protected or regulated industries, where success depends on personal lobbying and political maneuvering”

A Guardian of Jobs or a ‘Reverse Robin Hood’?[New York Times]
The Export-Import Bank of the United States, and the large companies that love it.