It’s been awhile since I’ve seen LINQ for the first time. Back then, my reaction was: "Woah, this is awesome!! There’s only one problem with it: it’s not released yet…". That thing is one of those "I want it, and I want it now!!!". 🙂
There’s a new CTP for Orcas (the next version of Visual Studio), which brings the most recent version of LINQ, as well as great IDE enhancements for VS to work with LINQ. There’s a great post by Charlie Calvert where some good resources about LINQ are listed here:
Claudio Lassala's Blog 