I was late installing Tiger, but one of the first things I did was to create the Astronomy Picture of the Day (apod) workflow in the December Macworld. Having done that, I realized I would actually have to run it every day; what a drag. The solution was easy.
I run anacron on a PowerBook (you could also use cron), so I just added the following to my daily.local file:
/usr/bin/open -a /users/rbp/Applications/apod.app
You should substitute your path to the application, obviously. anacron runs periodically while your laptop is running. It checks to see if the daily jobs have been run yet. If not, it runs them. Thus you will have the day's "desktop" within an hour of firing up your laptop.
[robg adds: You can find the apod workflow linked in this article on the Macworld site.]
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