I'd agree with the "too many widgets" comment. Every item you place in your sidebar should move your blog a little closer to whatever goal you have for it.
You have an RSS link nicely featured at the top of the sidebar (although I'd personally opt for a larger icon), but then you also have the Entries and Comments links farther down. I'd get rid of the Entries and Comments links, anyone who wanted to subscribe would do it through the link at the top.
Normally, I'd suggest putting the sidebar bits you want the most attention on at the top. Your Popular Posts list, for example, I'd stick up at the top, under the Entrecard widget. That way people who pop on to check out the latest post, or who wander in through a link somewhere, might see a popular post title that interests them and click on it. Where it's at now, way down toward the bottom, you're losing an opportunity to catch someone's interest.
Stick the things that you want to display, but aren't as important, toward the bottom. Most of the widgets that display only graphics would fall into that category, if you feel like you need them.
Content-wise, some of the posts are short enough they probably won't be taken seriously by Google. There are enough words in the sidebar that you need to boost your word count in the posts so Google can tell what the post is about. 300 to 400 words in what I usually think of as a minimum post length for SEO purposes.
I love the header graphic and the way it fits into the theme. The look of the site (other than the abundance of widgets) is nice and simple, and doesn't detract from the content.
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