Busy couple of weeks both at work (a few co-workers were either off on vacation or on sick-leave, document.write(“”); so we were all scrambling around; we caught a dvd thief!) and at home (trying to finish preparing the house for winter but, as usual, there’s not enough hours in a day). I got my work schedule for winter and I am doing a little more hours than in fall so I am quite happy with it. A surprising revelation makes my life feels like a soap-opera (and that’s all I can say). The gray weather makes me feels tired and depressed… Reading the news (even on a binge) does nothing to improve the mood… (See the news links after the jump)
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture
- Vocaloïds: des chanteurs en boîte (Cyberpresse)
- Hatsune Miku: l’idole virtuelle et Paternité multiple (Cyberpresse)
- New Rurouni Kenshin Anime‘s Part I Promo Video Streamed (ANN)
- Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Film Image Published (ANN)
- Dark Horse Goes Digital Day and Date (ICv2)
- Bam! How comics teach science (Cosmic Log)
- Tokyo: le pays des takenokozoku (Cyberpresse)
- St. Seiya, Rose of Versailles, Yu-Gi-Oh! Designer Shingo Araki Passes Away (ANN)
- Tezuka’s Hidamari no Ki Stage Play Cast (ANN)
- Shinkai’s Hoshi o Ou Kodomo Licensed in North America (ANN)
- Sentai Lands Grave of the Fireflies (ICv2)
- More Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Film Images Released (ANN)
- Drifting Life, St. Young Men, More Nominated at France’s Angoulême (ANN)
- Les yakuzas, truands au cœur d’or (Métro Montréal)
Apple, apps and mobile devices news
- Microsoft Office Coming to iPad (Apple Gazette)
- BBC brings global iPlayer iPad app to Canada, one step closer to the US (Engadget) [the app is free but the service is unfortunately fee-based]
- Apple rumored to revamp MacBook Air lineup with 15-in. model in early 2012 (AppleInsider)
- Glif: Tripod Mount & Stand for iPhone 4 and 4S (Studio Neat link)
- Holiday Gift Guide: Cameras (TUAW)
- You’re a good interactive app, ‘Charlie Brown’ (USA Today) [but really too expensive for me!]
- L’iPad révolutionne le livre de cuisine (Hotellerie-Restauration.fr)
- European antitrust regulators probe Apple’s e-book deals (TUAW)
- Chromian Wars (Les Sketcheurs Cosmiques) [iTunes store link]
- Olloclip iPhone Lens Kit: Neat iPhone Add-On Gives Your Photography A Wider View [Review] (Cult of Mac)
Books, Digital Edition & Library
- Mon Top 10 pour trouver des livres numériques en français (Numeriklivres)
- Les bibliothèques, plus populaires que jamais (Cyberpresse)
- Mes premières histoires (Cyberpresse)
- Dossier: Le livre électronique (Cyberpresse)
- Rapport du CALQ: La culture au temps du numérique (Le Devoir)
- Rethinking the Familiar Book Tour (WSJ)
- British Library digitizes 300 years worth of newspaper archives, brings 65 million articles online (Engadget)
- Comment écrirons-nous demain ? (Le Monde)
- Belzoni: A Pre-Digital Tomb Raider (Book Review) (WSJ)
- Dévoilement de la plateforme Pretnumerique.ca: le prêt de livres numériques bientôt possible dans 1 000 bibliothèques publiques québécoises! (CNW)
- Des livres numériques bientôt prêtés par les bibliothèques (OpenFile)
- CanLit sails into 2012 on high note (The Gazette)
- Des extraits de livres en collection à feuilleter en ligne sur Nelligan (BPM)
- Au sujet de pretnumerique.ca (Remolino)
- Louky Bersianik 1930-2011: La littérature féministe en deuil (Le Devoir)
- Des bandes dessinées pour tous (Cyberpresse)
- How Darcie Chan Became a Best-Selling Author (WSJ)
- How to convert text to an e-book (USA Today)
- Le Festival d’Angoulême justifie la nomination de Rabagliati en «jeunesse» (Le Devoir)
- Interactive ebooks take on fiction novels (GigaOm)
Economy, Environment & International Politics
- An uphill battle to save Quebec farm (The Gazette)
- Thanksgiving Sales Up 16% (ICv2)
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe (BBC)
- ThinkEco Modlet (Popular Science)
Health, home & garden
- En sécurité, avec votre téléphone intelligent (Cyberpresse)
- Hypertension to affect more than a quarter of Canadians by 2013, says study (The Gazette)
Humour
- Unshelved (2011/12/05)
- Unshelved (2011/12/06)
- Une vidéo de Noël de la Royal navy fait sensation sur le web (Cyberpresse)
Local News & National Politics
- Hausses de tarifs à la STM: la CAM passe à 75,50$ (Métro Montréal)
- Recycling: Montreal municipalities still have a lot of work to do (The Gazette) [Recycling problem in Mtl? Oh yea! First, the Blue Collars are refusing to pick up the recycling at work so WE have to do it–even if it’s not listed in our job description; and then they refused to pick up my recycling bin at home because its not full enough–making it overflow the following week! It’s all quite frustrating]
- Will it be a white Christmas in Montreal? (The Gazette)
- Critics decry tax hike for Montreal property owners in new budget (The Gazette)
- The Montreal budget visualized (The Gazette)
- Hydro-Québec seeks 1.7% hike in rates for 2012 (The Gazette)
- Feds to revoke thousands of citizenships in historic sweep (The Gazette)
- Refonte du financement des arrondissements (Métro Montréal) [Règler les problèmes de financement pour 2013, année électorale? Quelle coincidance!]
Media, Culture, & Society
- ‘The Walking Dead’ Best Ever Basic Cable Original Drama in Adult Demographic (ICv2)
- Moore Talks ‘Vendetta’ Mask Selling to Protestors (ICv2)
- Ken Russell 1927-2011: Un diable au paradis (Le Devoir)
- Ken Russell, Women In Love director, dies at 84 (BBC)
- Is ‘Pan Am’ Canceled? ABC Says No (AOLtv)
- Retour de Pan Am: la confusion règne (Cyberpresse)
- New frontières for Fantasia 2012 (The Gazette)
- La fusion de RFI et France 24 définitivement entérinée à la mi-janvier (Le Monde)
- Pan Am Cast On Nipple-High Pants & Why You Should Give the Show Another Try (AOLtv)
- Listen to seven songs off the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack and watch 8-minute preview (Joblo)
- Downton Abbey, Season Two: Can a Costume Drama Keep Its Cool? (WSJ)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Will American Audiences See It? (WSJ)
- Le CRTC veut que le sous-titrage codé en français soit amélioré (Le Devoir) [En effet, le sous-titrage est plein d’erreurs ridicules et je suis sûr que ce ne serait pas difficile de faire mieux]
- The More Things on the Small Screen Change… (WSJ)
- Fashion, Rape Survival, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (WSJ)
- ‘Tinker Tailor’ plays a masterful game (USA Today)
- Our Own Worst Enemies (NYT)
Sciences & History
- NASA rover on its way to Mars (The Gazette)
- Dawn views Vesta in 3-D (USA Today)
- Mars rover Opportunity finds ‘most powerful’ water clue (BBC)
- Scientists to World: We’re Going to Finally Clone that Woolly Mammoth We’ve Been Talking About (Popular Science)
- Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds (Popular Science)
- Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns (Popular Science)
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
- Canada lags in wireless broadband penetration (The Gazette)
- When a Facebook Rant Gets You Fired (WSJ)
- Study: many of us go online for no reason (USA Today)
- Facebook, Google Bugged by New ‘Adware’ Apps (WSJ)
- How safe is your Facebook profile (USA Today)