Apple actually ripped the Aqua shading style off of an old Kaleidoscope scheme.
It wasn't a very good scheme, IIRC. :)
SmoothStripes Glossy rocks my world, but it's a lil' too shiney for me to use regularly. Nice and clean though.
B.B. King's Blues is King, Cursive's Domestica, Desaparecidos' Read Music, Speak Spanish, and Bright Eyes' Lifted are glued into my CD player.
Also, Pedestrian! (http://pedestrian.homeunix.com/)
I like that typeface. If you ever find out what it is, please do let us all know. Myfonts.com couldn't find any decent matches, and the only thing FFJustlefthand really has in common with it is that they're both hand drawn.
I'd rigged up a nice lil' Konfabulator widget to read my counter file every five minutes or so and if it was different, it would update itself to display the new count and say "counter updated." It was hot, until i realized that nobody came to my site.