Shock waves off an AK-47 when fired

A very cool photo from the slideshow attached to this NYT article. Discusses photography of airflow from things like coughs, gunshots, a hair-dryer, etc.

Via Shanghaiist:

For all of you outside of China right now who have no idea what the internet is like over here and are curious enough to meet the Net Nanny face to face, here comes the ultimate Firefox extension for you, the China Channel Firefox Add-on.

Hilariously awesome. It makes any Firefox browser outside China behave as if it is instead inside China (I assume through a proxy), and the logo they worked up ain’t so bad either!