No, it's true! Check this out. It's the Windows "Active Desktop (TM)" feature that has been around forever. I always thought the feature was kinda silly and I didn't like the idea of something to slow down my computer. But a friend of mine showed me how he has his setup and I love it! If found a weather map at www.weather.com and some WebCams from around Detroit. A simple "Right Click" to get the url of the .jpg was all it took! Then, copy that url into the Active Desktop setup and tell it to refresh every 15 or 30 minutes. Neato. I might setup my webcam now and have a realtime picture of my backyard or something on my desktop.

I'm sure there are some 3rd party solutions that do this, but this is pretty neat out of the box.