Once in awhile you’ll find a need to add little widgets or utilities to your SharePoint page, such as the weather, and RSS feed, or some other eye candy. While they don’t offer a ton of great functionality, they’re often pleasing to the users’ eyes and may make for a better web experience. Luckily there are a ton of these types of components floating around the web, including ones from Google Gadgets or WidgiPedia.
Since these are usually just a link to a JavaScript file and some HTML, the Content Editor Web Part can be used to display these on your SharePoint page. For example, I added a couple lines of code from here for a clock:
How about weather?
Or even a formatted RSS Reader?
And if you need a break from productivity, add a game or two :)
Google Gadgets is a great place to find hundreds of these, but there are a ton of other places to get these as well, and many of them may actually be useful, and not just pretty eye candy!