I found this post about “bumping locks” quite fascinating. Here’s a video of an excellent presentation by TOOOL (be sure to check out the ultra-secure locks shown at 1hr, 34min). Thanks to Mark for the meme. Executive summary: your front door lock is probably useless!
Also in the lazy-day hopper: I finally got a decent video/audio input stream on Linux using a Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 and the ivtv driver. I stumbled upon this annoying workaround that won’t be too annoying if I don’t have to reboot often. Executive summary: leave the computer powered off for ten minutes. :-P