WidgSpree

Top places to download from (both dashboard and web-based widgets), for when you're feeling like a little widgeting spree during your free time.

Apple: While I'm loathe to felate Steve Jobs like your standard Macnut, I'll credit his team/staff/monkeys on this one. Great selection, well organized, diverse developers, from the mega-professional to the kid with a hand-me-down laptop.

Squidoo: Widgetfinder is a branch of soon-to-be-huge blogger emporium. Since it's user-operated, it tends to be a little more disorganized, but a great mix of web-based and dashboard based widgets for PC and Mac

YahooWidgits (aka Konfabulator) You have to download the gallery, but a selection to rival Apple's. Great developer platform, if that's your scene, too.

Google Gadgets There are 23,950 right now. There will probably be more tomorrow. Good Lord.

Snipperoo: Keeps it legal, widgets are almost always up-to-date (doesn't always happen on Yahoo).

Widgetbox: All user and fan submitted. A great place to start publishing or learning how to develop your own, too. Check back often. Small-time developers are constantly experimenting and uploading here. Maybe you'll find the next big thing before it's even trendy

Opera: One of the larger widget development and promotion sites. Has a strong selection, especially of more functional widgets (my favorite is the 3D renderings of math equations, but I'm a little weird) and some really hot developers. They run an annual international competition and convention for developers.

These are just a few of my personal favorites and generally good starting places. There are a million other places out there, from mega-widget search engines to small developers who just post three or four, so hit up google or dogpile and find your own personal fave to share with WidgetWatch-I'm always up for a new place to hunt.