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If Shanghaiist had a yuan for every time someone back home asked "So, you have tickets to the Olympics yet?!", we would be rolling in the coinage like Scrooge McDuck. Beijing, Shanghai, it's all the same to them. On Monday, Olympic fever hit another high as the Beijing Olympic committee unveiled the official "pictographs" that will represent each of the events to be held at the 2008 games. In addition to the official "running man" logo that has been plastered all over official and counterfeit souvenirs since the Beijing games were announced, 35 other designs were created with the same idea in mind.

Not unlike theologians of the European middle ages, we've been pondering intractable, almost philosophical problems: For example, is it worse to put prophylactics in your hair or drink water from the Yangtze River?

If Shanghaiist had a nickel for every jogger we have seen along the streets of Shanghai over the past three years, we'd have, oh, about a quarter. There is a reason for this -- jogging along the streets of Shanghai will get you killed. And the Shanghai Police don't try to deny this. At 4:50 am on October 3, a jogger named Peng was hit from behind by a taxi on Wenxi Lu. And on October 20, a cargo truck ran head on into a jogger named Chen near the intersection of Gonghe Xin Lu and Zhonghua Xin Lu. What is the city's police doing to stop this run of deaths? Telling Shanghai residents not to jog ... on the streets, at least.

If Shanghaiist posted news of every tall building under construction in the city, this would be the world’s most boring website. Perhaps more boring than this one. Or this one. Or even this one. (Because of its exciting MIDI file, this one didn’t make our list).

Get your Hipster Bingo cards ready, Shanghai's fledgling underground music scene will flex its puny indie-rock muscles this Saturday at Hong Dou Dou Music Bar near Shanghai Stadium. If Shanghaiist decides to go, that's four bingo spaces filled right there. (We'll let you figure out which ones.) Maybe five if we smuggle some PBRs in our pockets. Or, since we're in Shanghai, would REEB count? A can of REEB and a mirror equals hours of hipster fun.