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Widgetbox --  A Variety Show
Widgets, widgets, and more widgets:  youtube, flickr, poll, slideshow, countdown, twitter, quizzes, arcade games, weather, RSS and on and on.  And don't forget blidgets (a blog feed plus a widget).  Widgetbox claims to be the leading self-service web widget platform.  At Widgetbox you can create your own widgets or customize one of theirs.  They offer Basic (free widgets) and Pro (more options and no ads for a price). The ads on the Basic widgets are more than a little annoying, but they can be closed.
Yourminis -- A Variety Show
Widgets galore: weather, twitter, clocks, calculators, sports, translators, calendars, stock traders, social bookmarking, blog RSS, counters, currency exchangers, etc. Some are created and tested by the folks at yourminis, and some are created by 3rd party developers. Yourminis even offers a platform for developers where you can create your own widgets to use and to share and a dashboard where you can upload your own widgets.  Yourminis offers fewer choices than Widgetbox, but their widgets do not have annoying ads on them.
WidgetsForFree -- Plus Great Blogging Tips
This blog has as part of its title "Everything A Blog Needs".  It offers tips on money blogging and SEO (search engine optimization) as well as links to and instructions for various widgets and blog templates. A piece of trivia -- At the time I am publishing this review, this site boasts that it provides links to 502 twitter widgets, buttons and icons. Wow! This twitter icon is courtesy of  webdesign.fm.
Feedzilla --  News, RSS and More
Feedzilla's main offerings are news and RSS feed widgets, but they also offer a free random videos widget, a free music videos widget, a polls widget, and news alert widget.  The content of the news and RSS widgets is fully customizable from a wide range of topics, and the code is available for install by many methods depending on the restrictions of your site or blog.
RSS feed - Feedzilla.com	My Stupid Mouth by John Mayer | Powered by Feedzilla
Feedjit -- Site Traffic Trackers
Feedjit offers four widgets to track your site or blog's traffic:  Live Traffic Feed, Live Traffic Map, Recommended Reading and Page Popularity.  These are javascript widgets but Feedjit offers a non-javascript version of the Live Traffic Feed for WordPress and MySpace users. Feedjit also offers a twitter widget but I did not have a good experience with it on my blog as it had the annoying tendency of listing each tweet two or three times.
Widgepedia
Games, clocks, music, entertainment, sports, news, slideshows, etc.  Lots of neat widgets.  You can actually click on the keys and play the piano below.  Cool, huh?!
Virtual Piano Flash	StarGate Clock
aBowman -- Just a few gadgets
Just a few, but they are unique and fun.  Animals, clocks, games, Picasa photo slideshow.  A couple of them are made only for iGoogle, but most can be placed on multiple sites.
WIDGIA.COM
A very simple, straightforward site that offers a nice selection of free widgets and other goodies, like a twitter follow me maker.  I especially enjoyed the clock section.  Widgia also creates personlized widgets with your link, logo or photo for a fee.
Widgiland Widgets Gallery
Lots of nifty widgets and gadgets -- embeddable, multiplatform, and social networks.  A nice selection of desktop widgets also.  The widgets on this site often display ads but they do not pop up in front of the widgets and spoil them.
Primary Games PrimaryGames.com, a learning website, offers free, fun and educational widgets--flash games, drag-and-drop puzzles, countdown clocks, coloring pages, etc.--for your blog or website. I wrote my website name below with the cool Glitter Factory widget they have on the site.  You can't get the widget, but you can make words with it and copy and embed them into your website.