Kinect for .NET

Can anyone tell me if I have to buy a special cord - e.g. this one - in order to hook my daughter's Kinect to my Win7 laptop so that I can code against it for fun?  I told Pooteewheet I'd like to code up a game based on obscene gestures and I mean to do it.  In particular, I'd like to code an app that tells you what binary value you're holding up if you flash it a few fingers.  I suspect that might be too granular, but it would be fun to try.

I got the drivers and code installed today, only to discover I couldn't plug the thing in.  I put a question out to the guy who presented at Code Camp yesterday (I missed it - I was at another presentation), but haven't heard back yet.

Resources:

• Silverlight + Kinect (what I'm running on my machine - it runs, and then tells me it can't find the Kinect).
• Mike Hodnick's Github website for .NET and Kinect - (Mike Hodnick Twin Cities Code Camp bio)
• Hilarious adapter article for Kinect with the punchline, "Or, you could just use the adapter that comes with the Kinect unit itself."