Yeah, I just don't know about that bridge thing. I mean, I could see how someone could seriously do something like that with non-icky intentions, but the opposite is also pretty easy to imagine. I just don't know how you tell which this guy is in advance.

I found this part more than a little disturbing, though, too:

Still, "we are a public facility," bridge spokeswoman Currie said. "So his request will be handled accordingly. But now there's the question of what else might he be misrepresenting.''

"What else did he film?'' added board member Brown. "The underside of the bridge? The security patrols?"

What appears to me to be an attempt to drive her point home by making vague allusions to terrorist threats really skeeves me.

Is the circular saw the one the villains use when they tie the hero to a moving belt that moves ceaselessly toward the big, round, whirring blade?

Table saw, I believe. They had a circular saw as the murder weapon recently on L&O:CI--they figured out where it came from when they realized that the newly installed tabletop in the condo lobby had been cut at the same angle as the cuts on the body.

It seems to me that bridge officials don't have much right to be skeeved in any official capacity, given the fact that their big suicide-magnet monument is open to the public 24/7 and therefore fair game for people to photograph or film any visible part of without copyright worries. The issue is obtaining permission to film from national park officials under false pretenses, and the filmmaker can always claim that he altered the theme of his film after seeing what was on all the footage.

Table saw, I believe.

Ah, thanks.

And... ew.

Speaking of L&O, I watched SVU for the first time in a long time last night. It bugged me that they were so slow in figuring out the obvious. I mean, maybe not the genesis of the thing, but, come on. I don't think I've seen it quite that laboriously, "Well, maybe it's this. No. Then it must be this. No. Huh, well then it must be..." But I don't usually watch it, so I don't really guess I'm entitled to expectations.

The phrasing here [from a sports column on Salon] made me laugh:

Instead, Manning spent all day dumping off screens and checkdown passes, which the Patriots' speedy linebackers gobbled up like things that get gobbled up by speedy linebackers.

Not something I'm accustomed to seeing outside of, well, here.

LA Zoo now has a baby pangolin. Which I'd never heard of until just now. Cool looking critter, and cool story of how it got here.

DX, what exactly does a saws-all do?

It's an oversized version of a jig saw/sabre saw, with a long blade, also called a reciprocating saw. It's great for demolition and remodeling work, like for cutting window-sized holes in walls, and other rough cutting.

All of my favorite tools are kitchen gadgets.

Can you kill anyone with a zester?

It might be kind of messy.

Can you kill anyone with a zester?

If you got them to stay still long enough, I don't see why not.