links for 2007-04-29

• Canucks even series against Ducks in 2nd OT
  Cowan's marker at 7:49 of double overtime on Friday lifted the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 2-1 win over the Anaheim Ducks, and tied their NHL Western Conference semifinal at a game each.
  (tags: canucks)
• EastSouthWestNorth: China Top Brand and Nazi SS Logos
  On April 24, the magazine's Hong Kong correspondent Austin Rarmzy posted an essay at The China Blog about how he thought that the logo for "China Top Brand" resembled that of the Nazi Waffen-SS troops.
  (tags: chinaeconomy business china)
• lgf: Big Fish Was 7/7 Mastermind
  Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a former major in Saddam Hussein’s army, was apprehended as he tried to enter Iraq from Iran and was transferred this week to the “high-value detainee programme” at Guantanamo Bay.
  (tags: waronterror iraq uk)
• Is China's love compass pointing south? [angrychineseblogger.blog-city.com]
  According to figures presented to a reproductive health symposium in Hangzhou earlier this month, fertility levels in China have declines alarmingly over the last few decades, leading to 1 in 10 Chinese couples now being affected by infertility.
  (tags: china)
• Michael J. Totten: Sandmonkey Shut Down
  Hosni Mubarak's Egyptian police state is supposedly "moderate," and allegedly an American ally.
  (tags: blogs egypt)
• Tech.view | Criminalising the consumer | Economist.com
  Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn’t work. It is supposed to stop unauthorised copying, but no copy-protection system has yet been devised that cannot be easily defeated. All it does is make life difficult for paying
  (tags: tech music copyright)