All this talk about Shrink/Fatten modelling got me playing with it, on a sphere this time. The result is what you see here:
Hehe. I didn’t set out to make this, of course, it came about spontaneously. Then I had a lot of fun playing with the lighting and such. I’m not planning on doing anything more with it, just thought I’d share. 
edit updated image with better background, lighting, texture…
Looks like he’s got LED bulbs for eyes! Those are pretty cool. Did you follow an LED tut or did you arrive at that yourself?
It is pretty cool, but I arrived at it myself. Whats weird are the little ‘dots’ inside the eyes… er it looks like a ring of LEDs almost. Is that what you mean? I didn’t intend that!
I am guessing those are the individual vertices of an icosphere?
Seems like it. This is a result of err lemme think some button that shows up when you click Halo… its uhh HaloPuno. Yea.
With halopuno on, it makes halos around the verticies, and its easy to control the size of the halo, without, its really difficult to get the halo just the right size, but there are no dots. Go figure.