Man, nothing puts a damper on an otherwise fun weekend like foot trouble. Even temporary pain or discomfort can be a sobering nuisance; for instance, last Sunday we stood around for a couple of hours on the Harvard Bridge waiting for the fireworks to start, then stood throughout the display, walked to a local game room and played pinball until the crowds thinned, and finally walked to the subway and found our way home-- and when we finally got there, believe us when we say our dogs were barkin'. Heck, there's any number of foot problems that can make your walking life a less pleasant experience: blisters, warts, fallen arches, athlete's foot, corns, and, of course, the relatively new problem of having one's feet melt or fall off from the heat.

What, you haven't heard of that last one before? Then you haven't been keeping up with the news over at O'Grady's PowerPage. Apparently some people lucky enough to own one of Apple's latest PowerBooks are finding that the laptop generates so much heat, the Little Rubber Feet™ on the bottom of the unit are becoming detached, or, in more extreme cases, melting entirely. (There are any number of cheap gags we could make here involving the phrases "hotfoot" or "getting off one's feet," but we'll leave 'em to the young'uns.)

Is it just us, or does it seem that Apple's had a ton of trouble keeping its PowerBooks at a useable temperature over the past year or so? Last year, the original PowerBook G3 Series ran so hot, it opened up a whole market of third-party accessories designed to let people rest their PowerBooks on their laps without leaving second-degree burns on their legs, and now this latest model melts its own rubber feet and reportedly can get so juiced that the trackpad is almost too hot to touch. Here's hoping that the P1 isn't just cool-- we also want it to be cool.