This is a cool idea: LED slippers! I’d like LED ugg boots instead, please.

Speaking of shoes, Mimi linked to the Painted Shoes Manifesto by Howard Rheingold, wherein he says he has been painting his shoes for 7 years (it would be 10 now, if he is still doing so), and urges us to do the same. He starts with black clogs, which last him 2 years wearing them every day. Somehow this was a surprise; it didn’t really fit with the mental image I didn’t have of Howard Rheingold. Isn’t it funny that you can have an impression of someone without ever consciously thinking about it?