MOTM

Well, the article is in somewhat bad taste (the nickname of the 
person who wrote it is a bit crude), but it's probably worth looking 
it.  It details a serious hackjob for hand-soldering durface mount 
devices with pin spacings of 0.5mm.  It appears to work, but WOW what 
a hack.  Still, it's pretty interesting.

http://www.warmcat.com/milksop/soldering.html

I'm posting this here because a while ago there was a debate over if 
we should use SMDs in some of the more wacky kitss or not.  This 
could, theoretically, help (though I'm not sure if this technique 
would actually work for the more 'friendly' pin spacings).