Widgets are the new screensavers

Remember when you had that old Mac Plus, or maybe an LC or some such, and you used to go scouring your friends, swap meets, bulletin boards etc, for that new cool screen saver? Somehow you would rotate back to Flying Toasters every now and then, but I remember a lot of cool screen savers.

They didn't really save your screen, it was more like computer popcorn.

I think widgets are a lot like that. A very few are useful (like the survey widget I used on a recent post from MajikWidget) but most are popcorn.

Of course there's nothing wrong with popcorn. I like popcorn. And I like Asteroid. Happily they have come together in this Asteroid widget from Widgetbox!

Update: Well just like the screensavers of yore, widgets han hijack your computer! Or your blog at least. It seems that the site that submitted the asteroids widget (www.80smusiclyrics.com/games.html) replaced the Asteroid widget contents with advertising some time after I wrote this post.

As a replacement, this widget will get a new game every time urbaniacs.com releases one.