Suuuny Conky is a great conky setup that blends the users system information into a slick wallpaper.
Unfortunately, it is designed for 1440x900 which makes it unusable for people with 1920x1080 displays (like me), but after
some painstaking modifications to the .conkyrc I finally got it working:

Enjoy!

Suuuuny-Conky-1920×1080.tar.gz