Personal update: What a marvelous week I had. First, document.write(“”); my set-up to watch video crashed with my network drives, so I’ve lost a terabyte of data (hopefully eventually recoverable) and I had to replace my old Apple TV with a brand new Mac Mini. Then I am handcuffed and searched by police as the result of a miserable technological failure. On top of that I’ve worked six days for three weeks in a row, ending with a seven-day stretch, so a couple of days rest will be more than welcome. All this just to prove that nothing will keep me from reading the news:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Dark Horse Goes Its Own Way on Digital (ICv2)
• Vertical Nabs Tezuka’s ‘Book of Human Insects’ (ICv2)
• Japan Flix Pre-Launch Announcement (Japan Flix)

Apple & iPad news

• Apple présentera son Lion la semaine prochaine (Cyberpresse)
• Une nouvelle application iPad bientôt payante pour le NY Times (Cyberpresse)
• Tablet fans about to get the Vibe (Gazette)
• TED Talks take to iPad (Gazette)
• Video: Bloomberg Game Changers – Steve Jobs (Blooberg)
• Application iPad: prise deux pour le New York Times (Cyberpresse)
• Apple Turning More Attention to Corporate Market (WSJ)
• What Will Apple Reveal Next Week? (NYT)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• GG literary-award finalists include Montreal’s Kathleen Winter, Dany Laferrière (Gazette)
• E-Readers Collective (NYT)
• A Library to Shout About (WSJ)

Economy, Environment & International Politics/News

• Japan Goes From Dynamic to Disheartened (NYT)

Health, home & garden

• Immobilier: retour à la «normale» à Montréal (Cyberpresse)
• Balance returning to Montreal market: MLS (Gazette)
• Nouvelle technique pour empêcher la formation de calculs rénaux (Cyberpresse)
• Grandioses portos 2007 ! (Cyberpresse)

Media, Culture & Society

• Gareth Edwards’s Low-Fi ‘Monsters’ (NYT)
• Fox, Cablevision Fight Blacks Out Giants Football Game (WSJ)

Montreal & Local/National Politics/News

• Octobre Noir: la crise d’Octobre 40 ans plus tard (Cyberpresse)
• Crise d’Octobre: un monument à la mémoire des prisonniers (Cyberpresse)
• ‘Miracle Man of Montreal’ poised to become Catholic saint (Gazette)
• Canada: Better at doughnuts than diplomacy (Calgary Herald)

Sciences & History

• Quand la machine apprend le langage (Le Monde)
• Linguists Stumble Upon Koro, a ‘Hidden’ Language in India (NYT)
• Could a rusty coin re-write Chinese-African history? (BBC)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• The new face of genealogy (Gazette)
• Do you still watch TV on TV? (Gazette)

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