It is no secret that I find busy sidebars a distraction, and I was heading towards hypocrisy with a hotch potch of disparate widgets lurking in my own sidebar. But one day, flash, ahhaaaaaa, more by luck than judgement, I stuck them all together and they ended up adding to, rather than detracting from the basic theme of the site. (All opinions expressed on the Pisstakers are mine!)

Widgets are also a lazy man's way to provide dynamic content, so that every time someone visits it looks like there is something new. To be accurate, I do update the quotes and the contests widgets several times a week, so i guess I am not a total bluffer, but by and large the javascript serves a massive combination of messages and images with little help from me.

Widget warriors

In order to spread the word of The Pisstakers and also give some free entertainment and link love and content to others, I have made the codes available for download. I would like to thank the following folks for giving widgets a try and notching up traffic for everyone with a link onboard.

ABC, installed and wrote a short post too about the contest widget.

DisregardMe blogged about the contests widget, as did the mighty Contests Blogger

ClearSpring have a widgetizing site for all things widgetal

Sha had a contest widget but it dried up?

I Eat Snowman Poop has a cool Humor blogs widget on display

Dating legend, Mimi, has a contest widget for her readers to drool over

I didnt manage to get a forward and back arrow on the contest widget in time for the Win a Wii contest site. Sorry.

Linda has a contest widget despite it clashing with her color scheme.

Sandee spotted a discrepancy in the code for one widget. Thanks for paying attention.

Claire has the funny quotes scrolling through her sidebar. Her own sweaty thigh quote is quintessentially English.

Lord Likely banned me from his sidebar - thankfully along with everyone else with a widget!

The Widgets Lab put the contest widget through its paces. Room for improvement.

The funny quotes widget was dumped on Saturday night. Excellent result.

Larry went Hmmm and installed a funny quotes widget. He never looked back.

There should be a funny quotes widget lurking behind this blogger's doors, but they are closed now.

Celebrity Insider and Mikes MoneyMaking Mission are both busy but still have room for a static button, as do the unrelated Rag Box and the Owen Wilson fan, Shadowscope.

And the guru of the internet, Peter has the Necessary Skills and the room for Funny Quotes.

Callie Ann keeps on blogging and has a Funny Quotes widget with her own quote included - The village called, they want their idiot back!

Howard may be incorrigible like a kitchen gadget, but his funny quote widget is going strong.

Plakkerdeklap visitors had a good chin wag over the quotes widget. Translation anyone?

Paint me a Happy Smile has a sense of humor too, as well as loud music that launches when you land on the site. (Worse than too many widgets, that!)

Funny quotes occupy the top notch themed blog of Terri terri. The widget doesn't even make her place look untidy, so it must be quite well styled!

At last, Last Minute Lyn got a mention for installing the quotes widget.

No widgets but fantastic urban photos!

And finally, The Book project has a little banner of Ed. Awwwwsome.

So there you go, plenty of activity. If you want some action, check out the contest widget here, and the rest here.