BuddyPress

I am not referring to changing the site settings to show a static page..but would like to show the latest blog posts on the homepage and activity stream in the widget section.
While there is a plugin to achieve this (BP Sitewide activity), its really ugly and I am looking for a more elegant solution.

ANyone? TIA

Copy the the activity index.php under activity folder

Edit the html to your way

How about this plugin: http://buddydev.com/buddypress/buddypress-sitewide-activity-widget-for-buddypress-1-2-and-above