As it sits, the calendar widget pretty much does just what you’ve said—allows people to troll the archives.
Of course, it can be modified for different uses. One site I worked on used the Future plugin to convert the WordPress calendar widget into a calendar of events by creating a post for each event whose “date published” field was set to the date the event had happened in the past or would happen in the future.
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