Here is a cool CodePlex project that allows you to configure a WSS List as a data source in your ASP.NET applications.
According to this article, they are coming to the Bonnaroo festival, which is right outside of Nashville! I WILL be there!
I've been hearing rumblings of the sync framework for quite some time now and it has finally been released to CTP! I've got to say, if this thing "really" works, then it has the potential to change the way that we consume data. Once I get my home development machine re-imaged (hopefully tonight), I'm going to try to get this thing to work with SharePoint 2007. How cool would that be! You can read about and download the sync framework here ......