For those who still use the explorer shell, though, Konfabulator http://www.konfabulator.com/ is now available for free. This app lets you put "widgets" on your desktop for clocks, weather, calendars, whatever. I've always liked a naked desktop - icons annoy me but a sterile picture is too boring. So here's my desktop with a clock, calendar, weather and (way up in the upper right) system monitor.
