YES. Nolan takes the terrors of the enemy and removes any more than a couple silhouettes of Nazis. It also avoids an R rating by not depicting gore but at the same time, with the ratcheted tension throughout, it almost works better than explicit gore. Basically it makes the (usually more physical and definite) horrors…

Those would be wire cutters or metal shears, not just pliers. Pliers wouldn’t remove a finger.

The Panasonic GX85.

The Panasonic GX85.

There it is! My favorite as well.

Moleskine Cahier (natural, plain, large size).

I own that brick. It rocks.

He created, he can do what he wants with it. And me.

Thanks! It does sound intriguing.

Yeah, I can deal with an allegorical interpretation of the Flood story as a Christian just fine - I don't, however, want to see God get ridiculed or his character maligned in some cynical retelling. Which the cultural relevance angle of this movie has me wondering about... no review so far has really cleared that…

Playmobil is awesome, and not made of wood. Get your facts straight.

This is literature, but, I seem to recall Sherlock Holmes doing this a lot in the Conan Doyle works.

It's reasonably ignorant to judge ancient cultures by modern values, which should be obvious to anyone who really sits down and thinks about it. No one culture will ever be completely okay with another's practices, but if that means we can't enjoy history, we've got some issues.

You should be listening to Writing Excuses. Sanderson doesn't strike me as an opportunist at all. Maybe Jordan's publisher does, but that's to be expected. Sanderson approaches with appropriate reverence.

Hockey! Surreal icy environment, metal-bladed skates, a stout wooden pole-arm in your hands, a visor, massive gloves that feel like power armor, it's the best!

I still use 'em. Best device for writing hands down, I just need the tactile feel and pacing. I have a mint Olivetti Lettera 35l I found for $25 (bargained to $22.50) at a local antique shop. Types like new!

Turin Turambar, from Tolkien's Silmarillion (also the central figure of the more recently published posthumus work, The Children of Hurin). Tragic all the way around after Morgoth curses him and his sister to punish his father Hurin. He ends up marrying his sister after her memory is erased, identity is changed and no…

I've used WP8 for over a year... and I never knew that. Mind. Blown.

Zebra F-301 Ultra! Not the normal, common F-301, which has an uncomfortable hard plastic grip, but the Ultra, which is shorter but has a rubber grip. Most dependable pen I have ever used, I've owned them since 2005 and use them for everything.

Phase-detect AF isn't a magic bullet by any means, and is easier to knock out of correct operation. We'll have to see what the real-world implementation looks like. Also, contrast detection AF (CDAF) is neither coarse nor slow, in fact, it tends to be more accurate than PDAF unless the latter is incredibly fine-tuned…

This is a crappy review. Are we really still saying big phones are terrible to hold up to the ear? That's 100% a perception thing, not an objective reality. Also, The camera is not terrible in low light, it's amazing, you just need to set the ISO manually and hold fairly steady to take advantage of the image…