Another nice but insanely busy (and quite unseasonably hot) week. Not only this week was my birthday (getting so old now, document.write(“”); BTW: thanks to all who wished me happy birthday) but I am also getting my iPad (a kind of self-gift)! I’ll be a little more productive when I’m out of the safe-house (I’ll missed it after moving, but I’ll make a better one — however, for now, it is clean-up time!) and I’ll be able to experiment on new ways to distribute contents. This week was as hellish as usual at work (or more: trying to organize a new work schedule provided excruciating mental pain; the boroughs are really nests of ineptitude!). News-wise, beside the iPad international launch, I noted the end of the Cannes Film Festival, more Gulf oil-spill drama and the end of most of the TV shows I was watching (it makes me sad, but it will also allow more time for the clean-up and for “working” on the iPad)! Here’s some more:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Top 25 Manga Properties of Q1: Top 10 Shonen & Top 10 Shojo
• ‘Internal Correspondence’ #71: Q1 comics and graphic novel markets Uptick
• Navarre puts FUNimation on the Block

Apple & iPad news

• Apple Passes Microsoft as No. 1 in Tech
• Review: Hands-on with the iPad 3G
• L’iPad débarque en Europe et en Asie
• Apple posts guide to self-publishing iBookstore titles
• iPad arrives on Canadian shelves Friday
• Japon: qui va se ruer sur l’iPad?
• L’iPad, un «effroyable gaspillage» de matières premières
• iPad-mania as thousands queue for global roll-out
• Plus que quelques heures avant le lancement du iPad

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Le pari de la gratuité
• E-Book Sales Exploding: Up 250% in Q1
• Times et Sunday Times dévoilent leurs nouveaux sites payants
• Amazon promet que le Kindle ne copiera pas l’iPad
• Borders Sales Slide

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Growing Vegetables Upside Down
• Le problème du sou noir persiste
• Des niveaux d’eau «anormalement bas»
• 2010 hurricane season may be worst on record
• Succession May Be Behind N. Korea’s New Belligerence

Health

• Really?! Throat Exercises Can Relieve Sleep Apnea
• Plus de grossesses chez les adolescentes dans les pays conservateurs

Humour

• Ben: 2010/04/16, 2010/04/24, & 2010/04/30
• Non Sequitur: 2010/04/30, 2010/05/01, & 2010/05/07
• Rhymes with Orange: 2010/05/19
• Unshelved: 2010/04/28

Media, Culture & Society

• Couverture du Festival de Cannes
• Le Thaïlandais Apichatpong Weerasethakul reçoit la Palme d’or pour “Oncle Boonmee”
• The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson
• L’épisode final de Lost déçoit les amateurs
• La Palme d’or à un film thaï
• ’24’ was a tad off target in series finale
• ‘Lost’ finale: Redemption as ‘The End’ justifies the journey
• La série 24 s’arrête après huit saisons
• Many Faiths, One Truth

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• La vague de chaleur se fait incommodante à Montréal

Real-estate

• Immobilier: des mises en garde «hystériques»?
• Quatre villes canadiennes parmi les meilleures au monde

Sciences & History

• Découverte d’une cinquantaine de tombes contenant des momies
• Des scientifiques mettent au point la première cellule de synthèse
• Tracking the Ancestry of Corn Back 9,000 Years
• Atlantis boucle sa dernière mission spatiale

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Yahoo acquires publishing company to add more content
• The cloud is the great equalizer
• Cellulaire: Public Mobile lance son service demain
• Les incontournables du Montréal 2.0
• Sony met au point un écran souple qui s’enroule
• Les ordinateurs portables défient la crise

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