Considering who Time Magazine chose for its Person of the Year in 2007, this list should not come as a surprise. Time has chosen the top 25 (mostly) lefty blogs on the web and had the audacity to call the list, “The Top 25 Blogs.” This is Time Magazine’s first attempt at such a list. For next year, we challenge the editors of time to at least visit the other side of the blogosphere.

Any of us that blog know there’s really not enough space in the sidebar for all the stuff we’d like to put there already…so why do we find new gadgets irresistible? I don’t know, and as you can see, there is no room on this blog for ANYTHING else in the sidebar, but…

I discovered a wonderful little time-waster today, called Google Gadgets for your Webpage (thanks, a lot, “Quick” Online Tips!) There are 40,156 of these little suckers - all pretty cool.

You can browse all 40K+, or use the menu and search feature to look for “Web 2.0,” or “political” gadgets. You can look for “FOX News” ones, or “conservative” ones (Be careful, some of those are liberals making fun of conservatives - but that game works both ways!). There are also all sorts of tools, financial tips, sports, fun and games, and tech gadgets, as well as a seemingly endless supply of quotes for the day.

The directions say to add the code to the html on your blog, but most of them also work in a sidebar widget (Be sure to size them properly, and check to make sure they look good in the smaller sizes - some don’t).

Some update daily and some update each time the page refreshes. Go ahead, you know you want to try it. And be careful…these are like Pringles (Once you pop, you can’t stop).

Remember how the calendar turning over to 2000 was supposed to bring on Armageddon? Then a few hangers-on said ok, that didn’t happen, but it was really 2001 when the world would be catapulted back in the technological dark ages?

Obviously, that didn’t happen, either, so now the virtual doomsdayers are warning us about the year 2038.

ReadWriteWeb, with tongue firmly in cheek, explains the theory:

The bug, being dubbed the “2038 bug,” arises because Unix-based systems store the time as a signed 32-bit integer, in seconds, from midnight on January 1 1970. And the latest time that can be represented in that format, by the Posix standard, is 3:14 AM on January 19, 2038. After that, times will wrap around and be represented as a negative number… Programs will fail…Since they will see times not as being in 2038 but rather in 1901, erroneous calculations and decisions will occur.

This reminds me of a former boss, who (true story), called a staff meeting in early 2001 to help start the planning process to make sure that the glitches that happened in 2000 “won’t happen again, the next time.” The next time? In 3001?

Back to the 2038 bug, if anyone still thinks they’ll be using any of the same equipment, programs, software, or code in thiry years that we’re using now, then be afraid…be very afraid. Your only hope is that by then we probably will have melted from Global Warming.

The rest of us are going to lunch. Byeeeeee.