I had a busy week (an appointment with the optometrist for another lengthy exam—which left me almost blind the rest of the evening—and the fitting of my new glasses, document.write(“”); a family supper and a meeting with a family friend who’s a Vatican agent) and, since the weather has not been kind and made me worried about mopping the basement (which happened two or three time in the last week or so—I am so fed up with those increasingly frequent strong thunderstorms—and twice today!), I am rather tired and still not feeling well (back pain leading to bad sleep, slight cold due to air conditioning, troubled digestion due to the heat and worries, dizziness, etc). Therefore I took a day off today to rest more, catch up on chores and review the rare interesting news of the week. My wife and I are still watching “Upstairs, Downstairs” (we’re now in the third season) and I started a huge, but quite interesting autobiographical manga by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. That’s it for the weekly personal update and now let’s go on to the news:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Tokyopop Strikes Deal With Hulu
• Peter Fernandez, Voice of Speed Racer, Dies at 83

Apple & iPad news

• L’iPhone 4 déconseillé par un influent magazine américain
• Technical glitches could force Canadian delays for iPhone 4
• Apple’s shares fall after poor review of iPhone 4
• Apple Posts the press conference in defence of the iPhone 4

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Fides se place sous la protection de la Loi sur la faillite
• Postmedia Network Inc. opens new era for publishing unit
• Gazette to go Web only on Sundays

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Marée noire: pas assez de pression dans le puits

Health, home & garden

• «Coffrage isolant»: un procédé de plus en plus populaire
• Clapet antiretour: antidote aux orages violents
• Attack of the killer weed
• New diagnosis gets jump on Alzheimer’s
• Drug Trials Test Bold Plan to Slow Alzheimer’s

Media, Culture & Society

• The Medium IS the Medium
• Online, We Pay With Our Time Spent Searching
• Reinerouge.tv: Une peur écarlate

Montreal & Local/National Politics

• Les légumes de chaleur font une entrée hâtive au Québec
• La pluie cause quelques inondations
• Métro: encore un détour

Sciences & History

• “J’ai fait décrypter mon génome”
• Des bondieuseries gallo-romaines
• Des pans de l’histoire de Montréal dorment encore dans notre sous-sol
• Archéologie: Le pillage coûte cher
• Le plus vieux champagne du monde retrouvé dans la Baltique
• La plus vieille lettre de Jérusalem

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Expansion

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