The Cool Tools weblog features Yaktrax, grippy rubber-bandy things that snap onto the bottom of your shoes for a slip-proof walk through snow and ice. Yaktrax work like snow chains on your car tires.
I'm not a little old lady (yet) but I don't want to fall on ice on my way to the bus stop, either--especially not while carrying my laptop back and forth to work! These things, which fit over shoes or boots, really work well! I can walk almost normally over packed snow, as long as the surface has a bit of texture--and the added confidence has been great! (Smooth ice is still pretty challenging...)
Yaktrax are available at Amazon for about 17 bucks.
(Via Lifehacker.)
Boing Boing guide to defeating censorware
Boing Boing: Guide to defeating Censorware: " 'The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.' -- John Gilmore If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing's SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net, you can try the following workarounds:
(Via Boing Boing.)
