Well, if you are a wordpress blogger, there is a neat dashboard widget available that will allow you to blog from your dashboard (Apple OS X Tiger users only):
WordPressDash - WordPress Widget
There's also a few statistics programs that integrate pretty well into WordPress:
ShortStat - Shaun Inman
SlimStat - Souped up variant of ShortStat
And of course if you want a slick theme for your WordPress Admin interface, check out
Tiger Admin