VS2008

I can see no reason NOT to go to VS2008

Link: How to put silverlight into OpenSocial

Synergist by Michael S. Scherotter

Link

Gerard Leblanc
Tutorials on managed silverlight 1.1

Catch Up

use Silverlight's Storyboard and ColorAnimation XAML tags to create custom color animations

Silverlight performance tips

There are some silverlight performance tips here from avalite (Seema Ramchandani, PM on Avalon)

The Game of Life

Jeff Prosise has a fantastic example of the game of life implemented in silverlight.

Line Graphs etc.

Silverlight Fan pointed out an example on Code Project of drawing real time line graphs. This is a very interesting example, and is something I am very interested in pursuing. Combine this with the Jelly example and you could have a very neat item.