came across a cool desktop customizer the other day, wanted to share: http://www.rainmeter.net
there's a pretty big rainmeter skin community over on deviantart as well
i wanted to keep mine subtle, so after several hours of editing code, here's what my desktop currently looks like (sorry if it's huge):
left side:
top - notes (click on the heading to open a .txt file where you can add or remove notes)
middle - current weather (updated via RSS)
bottom - sunrise/sunset times (also RSS)
middle:
top - cubs.com feed
middle - cnn feed
bottom - time + calendar
barely visible in the horizon line - winamp with track, time elapsed, and progress bar (that one was a bitch to figure out)
right:
top - the big thing in the corner is more than just a clock: also buried in there are system resource meters, network traffic info, calendar, and song progress
bottom - very simple system resource meters
do any of you have super fancy desktop layouts? i am really digging this!