OK, if anyone's rushing out to buy themselves a copy based on this post: you really, really want to grab almost all of Shaun Inman's extra Pepper (linked from the same place you'll download Mint itself). Part of Mint's appeal is that it's crazy extensible with the Pepper.

Yes, yes, plugins, but there are separate things called plugins, so we indulge the conceit.

I haven't played much with the third-party Pepper yet. I figure we get a nice stable sense of holy fuck, dude and then I start throwing extras at it. Inman's set will do for most people.