widgets

Anyone out there running Tiger are way ahead of me on this one, but since I mostly live in PC land this is new and exciting. I have just come accross Konfabulator which allows you to use widgets with a PC.

For those of you not familiar with widgets, they are essentially little windowy things that look really neat and seem to co-exist peacefully with your computron informing you of this or that. Got it? If not, perhaps you can quench your insatiable knowledge with what Apple has to say about the widget. As nifty as they seem, however, they will undoubtedly be the next fun thing to hack.

Widgets remind me of how I imagine Jeff Noon's blipverts to look, only they still only exist on a two dimensional plain. The fact that they exist at all also kind of kills that scene in Back To School for generations to come.

-nephonomics-