Despite being quite busy (have you noticed I didn’t write any review lately?) I can still find news to read. The main story of the week was this Islandic volcano wreacking avroc with European air travel.
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Anime & Manga related, document.write(“”); Japan, Popular Culture
- A Second Bad Year in a Row for Manga: Sales Down 20% in 2009
- Up to $1 Million in Digital Comic Sales in 2009
- ‘Yen Plus’ Mag Cancelled After July Issue
Apple news
- A $30 Cable and an iPad on a Television
- Israel bans imports of Apple iPad
- Testing the iPad’s Trip-Worthiness
Books, Digital Edition & Library
- A Magazine, Long Gone, Is Given Digital CPR
- École Branchée: À la découverte du livre numérique [PDF]
- How to Close the Digital Divide? Fund Public Libraries
- À l’ère numérique, quel rôle pour le libraire?
- Le Kindle en vente dans les magasins
- É-U: audience record pour les sites internet des journaux
- That Mighty Sorting Machine Is Certainly One for the Books
Economy, Environment & International Politics // Earth Day Special //
- A Tale of Two Volcanoes
- Urban agriculture taking root in Montreal yards and rooftops
- En 1783, le Laki, volcan islandais, plonge l’Europe dans le chaos…
- L’Europe accusée d’excès de zèle
- Icelandic volcano still spewing huge ash plume
- Suivre l’éruption de l’Eyjafjöll sur internet: «effrayant mais fascinant»
- A Milan, le premier métro solaire
- Japan Tries to Face Up to Growing Poverty Problem
- Recyclage des déchets électroniques: un secteur d’avenir
Humour
- Non Sequitur: 2010/03/30
- Unshelved: 2010/04/20
- Unshelved: 2010/04/21
- Rhymes with Orange: 2010/04/22
- Unshelved: 2010/04/23
- The Oatmeal: How to name a volcano (A. Wikipedia)
Media, Culture & Society
Montreal & Local/National Politics
- Time to hop back on a Bixi bicycle
- Montreal and its unions: foes in a numbers game
- La Ville de Montréal et le syndicat des cols bleus annoncent une trêve
- Ottawa Tulip Festival
Real-estate
Sciences & History
- Une boule de feu géante traverse le ciel des Etats-Unis
- Mélange racial à l’âge des cavernes
- Adrien Arcand, führer canadien : retour sur l’extrême droite québécoise
- Une jeune Croate sort du coma en parlant couramment allemand
- Indian Tribe Wins Fight to Limit Research of Its DNA
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
- Le retrogaming, la “madeleine de Proust” du jeu vidéo
- How to Fix Your iPhone (the Unofficial Edition)
- France: bientôt un mini-poste de télévision les téléphones
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