Because we all need more gadgets…

Any of us that blog know there’s really not enough space in the sidebar for all the stuff we’d like to put there already…so why do we find new gadgets irresistible? I don’t know, and as you can see, there is no room on this blog for ANYTHING else in the sidebar, but…

I discovered a wonderful little time-waster today, called Google Gadgets for your Webpage (thanks, a lot, “Quick” Online Tips!) There are 40,156 of these little suckers – all pretty cool.

You can browse all 40K+, or use the menu and search feature to look for “Web 2.0,” or “political” gadgets. You can look for “FOX News” ones, or “conservative” ones (Be careful, some of those are liberals making fun of conservatives – but that game works both ways!). There are also all sorts of tools, financial tips, sports, fun and games, and tech gadgets, as well as a seemingly endless supply of quotes for the day.

The directions say to add the code to the html on your blog, but most of them also work in a sidebar widget (Be sure to size them properly, and check to make sure they look good in the smaller sizes – some don’t).

Here are a couple of my favorites. Some update daily, like the Colbert gadget shown below, and some update each time the page refreshes like the liberal agenda one (go ahead, you know you want to try it). And be careful…these are like Pringles (Once you pop, you can’t stop).

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