Anyway to tell how much SRAM my sketch is using?

Short of adding up all the bits and bytes by hand....

Is there some system variable or something that I can send out the serial port? An equivalent to the "free" *nix command?

The wiki is not much help... It basically says that if it's not failing in strange ways it should be OK.

Google Arduino free memory.

try this

int freeRam () {
  extern int __heap_start, *__brkval; 
  int v; 
  return (int) &v - (__brkval == 0 ? (int) &__heap_start : (int) __brkval); 
}