Personal update: We started feeling that automn is getting close as the temperature has sharply dropped around 12’C. I’ve got my schedule for the new season and its nothing to get excited about: twenty hours over four days that I will complete with ponctual replacements. Unfortunately, document.write(“”); in order to reach a thirty-five-hour week I’ll have to work six days, like this week. So today is my only day off of the week. I have to cram all the house chores, as well as the blog updates, in this one day and still find time to rest and relax while reading and watching tv (my wife and I recently finished watching Upstairs, Downstairs and just started watching Shogun again)! I’ll try not to work six days a week too often (if I want to stay healthy and sane). Strangely, there was lots of interesting news this week:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Crunchyroll Fashioning Digital Distribution Platform
• Kindle 3 Manga Photos
• 230 000 centenaires introuvables au Japon
• Why Digital Comics Are Different And Print Can Grow Too
• Comics and Graphic Novels Plummet in August; Down 17%
• Square Enix Launching E-Manga

Apple & iPad news

• Apple ripe to fall?
• Dur, dur de mettre la main sur l’iPhone 4
• L’iPad bouleverse le marché des jeux de société
• Révolution iPhone dans les hôpitaux québécois
• Lire sur le iPad au soleil? Impossible, selon la pub d’Amazon
• IPad vs. Newspaper, Fly-Swatting Edition

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• 6 Tips To Get More Manga in Your Local Library
• Desperate Librarian Housewife: “pourquoi on prêterait pas des liseuses ?” (autre point de vue: celui des bibliothécaires qui se foutent de leur employés déjà surchargés de travail et sous-payés; cela m’apparait ridicule mais l’argument est, toutefois [hélas!], valable)

Economy, Environment & International Politics/News

• Campaign promotes wine corks over screwcaps
• Eolien en mer: ambition nationale, frondes locales
• Weird Weather in a Warming World

Health, home & garden

• Problèmes de mémoire: les hommes plus concernés que les femmes
• Des vitamines B pour combattre le déclin cognitif
• H1N1: la désinfection des mains ne fait pas de grande différence
• A Push to Put Identifying Collars on Cats
• Lose weight by reading?

Media, Culture & Society

• Cybercrime haunts Canadians: Report
• ‘Caprica’ Returning in October
• Sofia Coppola primée à la Mostra
• Can’t access AMC? Pity…
• Le réalisateur Claude Chabrol est mort
• Nikita: Le retour de la femme qui tue

Montreal & Local/National Politics/News

• ‘French in peril,’ nationalists say before protest rally
• La culture québécoise en France sur IPhone
• Projet pilote à Montréal pour réduire la consommation d’eau
• La valeur des maisons grimpe de 23,5 % à Montréal

Sciences & History

• Passage de deux astéroïdes près de la Terre
• Un étrange dinosaure bossu découvert en Espagne
• Icelanders Challenge Thinking on Ancient Lewis Chessmen

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Technology allows digital nomads to work anywhere
• Bell knocking at family-room doors with Internet-based TV service
• La nouvelle Boxee Box va encore plus loin que l’Apple TV
• La télé sur votre cellulaire sans frais de données supplémentaires
• U.S. seeks to tap unused airwaves for super WiFi
• The Boxee Box, Openness and Homemade Content
• Disabled Japanese tourist plans robo-suit adventure

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