Blogwatch: Hamsters, dead dogs and Xinjiang food

• Aline bought two "tiny and fast" hamsters and recently had a "crazy night".
• Seven Castles gives us an interesting history lesson on Kung Fu, as well as Shanghai Stadium and Ruan Lingyu (we don't know what the connection is either).
• My Green Head tells us what's been going on at the gym.
• John Sinosplice saw a dog die and a man make money from it.
• Wanbro will tear you a new everything if you say either Peking or Canton, and asks the eternal question of what Shanghai does better than Beijing.
• China Snippets has a photo of a post-coital Panda, and an absolutely wonderful CCTV 9 quote: “Brazil and China will promote cooperation in various fields”.
• Priit and Kerti share ther photos of maybe the best thing about living in China -- Xinjiang food. They also have a video of how to open a beer bottle with chopsticks.
• Danwei muses over why and how TV shows are approved or rejected in China, as well as wondering just how truthful are these personal ads.
• Imagethief tells us about his motel hell: "As I descend into middle-age and my politics inevitably harden I'll be able to look back on that night and identify -- to the second -- the moment my opinion on the death penalty changed."
• And from John Biesnecker ... the no-Chinese Chinese cell phone.

Blogwatch is a semi-regular look at what is going on in the English-language Chinese blogosphere.