This is too weird. You can see your screensaver as your Desktop background. Personally this is too disorienting for normal usage, but the exercise illustrates the power of Mac OSX.
CategoryMacOsx CategoryApplescript
tell application "System Events" to "ScreenSaverEngine" is in name of processes
if the result is true then
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to quit
else
tell application "Terminal"
if not (exists window 1) then do script ""
do script "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &" in front window
end tell