Shooting an AK-47 underwater leads to all kinds of rad stuff. Cool, cool cool cool.

Excellent post on The Conversation about what is actually proposed by Rudd & Bowen to change with the FBT rules next year: This means that where the statutory formula method gives a lower taxable value than the cost method, the taxpayer is getting a tax concession. This is recognised in the annual Tax Expenditure Statements issued by Treasury. The Tax Expenditure Statements contain a list of items where taxpayers are getting a tax concession, along with an estimate of the aggregate of the tax concession. ...

Barack Obama, showing the eloquence he’s famous for, makes the point in the light of the Trayvon Martin/Zimmerman case that America is not (yet) a post-racial society: There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store. That includes me. And there are very few African-American men who haven’t had the experience of walking across the street and hearing the locks click on the doors of cars. That happens to me, at least before I was a senator. There are very few African Americans who haven’t had the experience of getting on an elevator and a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath until she had a chance to get off. That happens often. ...

See that pale whitish-blue dot over on the right, under the rings? That’s the Earth as seen from Cassini, orbiting around Saturn. Beautiful.

News today of a Calvin & Hobbes documentary coming - here’s the trailer: I love Calvin and Hobbes in a way that I’m not entirely sure how to express - it’s a shame that there’s not more being made, but there were more than enough created that each time I see a strip it feels funny and fresh, and brightens my day. The artwork is superb. Looking forward to seeing the full version of this documentary. ...