These links are already posted in another entry but with links piling up I decided to seperate it for easier future reference.
Matt with an article on some possibilities for more advanced uses of Movable Type. The main lesson there is to forget the name of the fields used for a blog and start thinking about them as database fields for a wide variety of data types you might want to display in a website.
In the same vein, Brad Choate has a brilliant technique to setup your static content as a seperate blog.
Based on similar ideas Doug Bowman explains how he redid is superb portfolio