Last night I was recording another Minnesota Developer Roundtable podcast (we punted on the MS Roundtable video since it was pretty large when all was said and done and didn't add much) and it came out that Second Life was going to start using Mono (Novell's implementation of the Common Language Runtime and parts of the .NET Framework on Linux).  I forget which of the guys mentioned it, but I hadn't heard that.  Very cool.  So a bit of sniffing and I came across this post announcing the Second Life Mono Beta Launch which then points to this Wiki entry talking more about Mono in Second Life.   I find this cool since it gives me that six degrees of separation feeling to Second Life (.NET -> Mono -> Second Life).  Personally, I don't the Second Life thing - tried it, got bored, never went back - but the technology is cool!