All sorts of info about fooling around with the innards of your Nook is available on this site. According to the About page:
nookDevs was created on November 29th, 2009 (1 day before the nook’s scheduled launch) by User:robbiet480 who saw great potential for Android and nook.
nookDevs is a MediaWiki-based wiki which means you can edit it to improve it!
via Gizmodo