Thing 11; or, Widgets are the newest best friend of Xanga ANAs

I keep hearing all sorts of folks talking up widgets. I personally keep my blog to the preselected "page elements" that Blogger lays out, but that's just 'cuz I'm old fashioned like that. Anyway, Thing 11 wanted me to experiment with a whole range of web 2.0 award winners, and let me tell you, I'm glad I did. How else would I figure out how to let everyone know my BMI, BMR and waist to hip ratio?!?


School Library 2.0 Learning led me to Widget*Mart (better known as yourminis). Thinking that a helpful place to start for a librarian-to-be's blog would be the information widget section, I set about with a plucky false hope only to be appalled by this:


Last time I saw one of these bad boys on someone's blog was during my those sad early mornings my sophomore year of undergrad where reading poor ana/mia blogs was the only way to cure my insomnia (I have no idea how it worked, but it did. Yes, I'm weird). Now, call me crazy, but this seems like it's destined to end up on a site like that, no? Not only could I put a BMI widget up, but I could also showcase my WHR and BPR. The BPR one is especially disgusting, as it calculates exactly how many calories I would have to ingest in order to loose one pound a day without exercise (for the record, it's 1200--excuse me? Is that healthy?). And here I thought we were trying to make it harder for pro-ana sites to flourish. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to have some Ellio's.