I've updated the demo site I've been setting up for nodequeue so that you can login as a demo user. This lets you play with the Panels UI and the Nodequeue UI and sort of look behind the scenes to see how a fairly simple site can be set up with these tools. The site isn't anything flashy, and I do need to do a better job (ok, a job) of documenting what I did, but even without it a lot can be divined.

See: http://nodequeue.demo.logrus.com/