I made a GeekTool curl script a few years ago that logs into my bank accounts and all my recurring services', utilities, and scrapes the balances every 10 minutes so I see my complete financial position on my desktop in near-real time. The dashboard concept is a good fit for this type of data.
I would _love_ to play around with it. The Bank Of America finance tracker SUX big time, and I don't trust Mint et al. with my data (plus, I want to do tasty analysis/tracking myself, mmmm).
