As I understand it, all the major components of Leatherman tools are still USA made. The plier heads are apparently cast in Mexico and assembled in the US, and sheaths and interchangeable bits may be from China, but the rest of the tool is still made in Portland.

An ND filter could achieve the same thing without any post-processing. The filter itself doesn't do anything to remove the people, it just dims everything so that the photographers can take an extremely long exposure. I imagine they used one that was dark enough that the exposure lasted some considerable number of…

I've got a decent grounding in jazz history, but I've just never been able to fully wrap my head around music theory. That said, I always love to have something interesting pointed out about a tune I've already listened to over and over.

I'm liking the idea, but what do they mean by new characters? New NPCs to add to your party? A large part of the fun in the original games was the interactions within your party. Are they going to record new voice content so Minsc and Jaheira can interact with whoever they add? If not, the new characters are going to…

If you read the entire post, people are still allowed to make emergency calls. They're also allowed to call a spouse, parent, or child, which seems like more than enough loopholes to make the entire thing pretty much unenforceable.

It's very heartening that you've known some muslims who are not complete asshats. The fact still remains that actual governments in Saudi Arabia and other nations in the area execute people for sorcery. This is not some law on the books that nobody enforces. At least three people were executed for this last year in…

Putting aside the ridiculousness of the ban on hands-free devices, what is with those moronic exceptions? I can call my spouse, parent, or child, but nobody else? What if I'm not yet married, but I'm calling my fiancee? North Carolina doesn't allow gay marriage, but if I were legally married in DC, could I call my…

Schools are very different from employers, though. I don't know whether this one was public or private, but public schools are entities of the government. Also, children are required to go to school. Whether you work for a certain employer or not is your choice.

Or you could read the article that says,

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The grammar made me automatically read it in a Russian accent, which I think makes it much funnier.

Well, that's special. The Amazon app store has three versions. Free, paid for $0.99 and HD for $2.99. They claim that the first two are not compatible with the Kindle fire, so if you want to play it on there, you're either sideloading or paying three bucks. Because leaving things at a slightly higher resolution…

If you've got a Kindle fire like me (and a blackberry for a phone), Draw Something is not yet available from Amazon's app store. You can sideload it (no rooting required, but results not guaranteed) by pointing your Kindle to [www.androidls.com] . You just need to make sure you allow it to install apps from outside…

You should see krogan melee in multiplayer. With just a few points in the perks that increase their melee, it's easy to take out anything short of a brute or banshee in one hit.

Then it's a failure on the part of the director and editor. You shouldn't be swinging directly at somebody's head, but it's their job to make it look like you are.

I'm saying the fight in TPM looks like three guys who wanted to dance for a while and then go have a beer. It doesn't look like anybody is actually trying to kill anybody. Compare that to Liam Neeson doing it much better in Rob Roy. [www.youtube.com]

Nonsense. Even at full speed, the fight in TPM looks more like a dance than a fight. Compare it to something like Luke and Vader in ESB or Inigo and Wesley in Princess Bride. There's a huge difference.

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I may have to give this a try at my house. I've got a big perfectly flat roof, but the only way to get there is my 24" collapsing ladder, which always feels a lot flimsier than it looks.

The concrete floor is several inches below the level of the sliding glass door. It looks to me like it's designed specifically to be filled with pads and they just aren't in place yet.