Yes, I've fallen big for widgets and have javascripted myself into the flash and pander of the web widget wonderland. Gone is the old link - blue, underlined, simply taking you there. Best it could do was change colour or image while hovering over it. Now via the world of embedded content, the gift of collaboration the internet offers is bringing us even more dynamism as well as findable content than ever before.

In a nutshell, widgets allow you to surf one web site's headlining content while being on another one. A hyperlink on steroids - not only are widgets remarkably easy to create - an occupation within the reach of any code hobbiest, they are also an easy way to develop turn-key web sites that amalgamate information from various sources that update themselves.

Nexialist.org, not yet a widget creator itself, has recently gone crazy for channeling widgets into its topic pages, and through experimentally induced and subject related connexulism has upped the anty on links to any given topic. Art, Anthroplogy, News and countless others are now benefiting from widgified links with more to come.

Try some out yourself from widgetbox.com

While it seems like the Drupal world is giving us a new module a minute, and the steady rate of module development is offering us both a virtual playground and digital shop of horrors. In my own hunt for functionality and feature, having fended off many a bug ridden code base, I have discovered quite a few can't live with-outs, and a whole slew of no-brainer modules that any decent site deserves.

These Are A Few of My Favorite Drupal Things serves as a growing collection of the many should haves from the digital kin at Drupal.org. And while I hate to take away from the following listed glory of said .orgs consistent success, I do think in the future I'd like to post another blog or tag on a smaller list of those other kind of modules we all know about. You know the ones. The ones in serious developmental need. Going behind the bugs into the world of Drupal gone wrong, my hunt for features and functionality has also lead me to quite a few desperate WTF moments that would also benefit from some blog relief. Before that time though, let's rejoice in the sacred and good with the best and brightest from Drupal.org.