A canvas-based horizontal slider that would almost sway me from thinking thumbs up, thumbs down is the best rating UI mechanism.

Ahh, so this leaves Safari as the only major browser without any built-in HTML/CSS/JS widget mechanism. (Dashboard != built-in)

And the gratuitous use of Flash award goes to Sprint. This page makes me think that widgets are pointless. If Sprint's name wasn't in the domain I'd assume this was someone spoofing the whole idea of widgets.

"Take care of the little jobs with Organized, a new widget from iSlayer featuring a calendar with events, world clocks, notes and to do's. "

"Shoes is a very informal graphics and windowing toolkit. It's for making regular old apps that run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets."

These days I am seeing less software that is "Windows only" and I'm lovin' it.

Clever and well-executed notekeeping Dashboard widget for OS X. (I can't help but question the usefulness of this application in the Dashboard layer though... )