Extra! Extra! Cash cows goats, deadly bottle caps, massacre denial

• A novel idea for owners of huskies and other dogs that find the summer heat unbearable -- take them to the indoor ski facilities and have them pull you around on sleds.
• The New York Times profiles Chinese physicist, historian and Einstein translator Xu Liangying.
• Implicit in China's touting of its soft power appeal is that it doesn't throw its weight around the way that the US does -- a point of view they share with Latin American gadfly Hugo Chavez, but it looks like Chavez is only to going to get "private applause", and not public backing, from Beijing.
• China's true level of public debt is almost four times the official figure!
• Workers at a Guangzhou factory have been complaining because management told the security guards to take pictures and then fine anyone caught sleeping on the job. We call for those miserly capitalists to stop punishing the poor and immediately start brewing coffee round the clock.
• A Chinese court ruled that two Japanese writers, whose works deny that a Nanjing massacre occurred, have to pay $1.6 million to a Chinese man in damages. The catch is, that court rulings in China over books don't really have much sway in Japan.
• Stranger than fiction: The village cashier stored cash worth about $12,500 US (100,000 RMB?) in a goat pen, only to discover that the goats ate the money. They killed the goats and retrieved about 1/3 of the money from their intestines.
• Recently we told you about China's first blogger v. blogger lawsuit -- read what Qinchen, the defendant, who was accused of defamation, has to say in his defense.
• China finally gets around to punishing spammers.
• China closes over a hundred websites for copyright violations. Bob Dylan wouldn't give a shit.
• Shanghai's traffic cops get their own blogs (because there's not enough bullshit in the world).
• Beware the caps on the bottles of Minute Maid orange juice. While one Shanghai man was opening his bottle, the cap flew off, pierced his eyeglasses, and damaged his eye. He's getting surgery to repair his cataracts and doctors say he needs at least two years to heal, even if the surgery goes smoothly.
• We end, as we began, with huskies -- except this one, from Nanjing, has had a chip implanted in its body that has information about its breed, age, weight and owner's contact information.

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