A perennial problem for anglers who fish along shore or from boats is what to wear for shoes. Felt soles are solid in the river but slippery in a drift boat. Sea boots are good on dirty days but too hot when the sun’s out. Sandals are variably comfortable but leave your feet unprotected, and most of the soles mark decks. The ubiquitous Top-Siders and their clones are comfortable, nonmarking and skid-resistant, but seawater cracks the leather models, and after a week in the tropics the running-shoe styles smell like a 14-year-old’s gym bag. Which leaves Crocs.

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Today’s funkiest footwear has genetic roots in yesteryear, with odes to everything from Dutch clogs to Chewbacca’s shaggy paws.

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Daily News article

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Jamestown Journal, Image of the Week

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Colorado is known throughout the world as an exporter of computers, rockets and beef. But most people may not realize the state is also the birthplace of products that have changed industries - as well as those that have just made everyday life a little easier. It’s tough to make it through a day without encountering at least a few things that were invented in Colorado - whether it’s the cheeseburger you eat for lunch, the soy milk in your refrigerator or the device that inflates your car’s air bag. Some innovations have gone on to become major forces in the state’s economy. When Warren Monfort created the feedlot in 1930, for example, he set the stage for what has become a $2.4 billion-a-year statewide beef cattle industry. And if patent applications are any indication, more new ideas are yet to come. According to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Coloradans - who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population - submitted 7 percent of the patent application filed in 2003; two-thirds were granted. For a sampling of the products and services that Colorado exports to the world, turn to pages 10-11K.

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