Boing Boing: Connect iPod video to your TV, without the Apple proprietary cable. Basically the iPod mixes up the signals and the proprietary cord mixes them back. If you know which plugs to connect, you can just use your own cable. The short version: get your jack-to-RCA cord (three plug cord, obviously). Connect plug→jack in this combination: red→yellow, yellow→white, white→red. Done. People should remember that Apple can be magnificently evil when they want to be. If Microsoft did the same thing, people would be screaming about it.
Boing Boing: Experiment: How hard is it to shoot off a lock? Turns out that if you shoot the body of the padlock, you better be using a solid slug in a shotgun. I'd be curious to see the same experiment done trying to hit the hasp, not the body; but I also suspect that would be hazardous in the extreme - which probably answers the question about whether you want to shoot off a lock that way :) I also imagine cheap, crappy locks wouldn't stand up so well.
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