Rebuttal:

I don't feel like Emily properly captured the beauty of the equalette in her last post. You see, by taking my cordolette (the thin little blue rope in the pictures) and doubling it up, it makes two loops of cordolette that can then be attached to two, three, or even four pieces of gear using two clove hitches and a figure-eight-on-a-bight. Because the power point is fixed, you never have to tie it while on the route and you don't have to use a figure-eight-on-a-bight. This gives you all the multidirectional advantages of a sliding X configuration but without the scary lock-up effect and with the ability to use more pieces of pro. It also has the lightweight, simple nature of a cordolette anchor, but without the sacrifice in multi-directional capability of a cordolette anchor. It's a win-win situation, you see.