This week, document.write(“”); I’ve also checked some news and gathered a few interesting links that I’m sharing with you after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Warner Bros. shuts down live-action Akira adaptation (JoBlo)
• Hiromi Omura: entre force et douceur (Cyberpresse)
• Tezuka’s Barbara Manga Reaches Goal for English Printing (ANN)
• North American Stream List- January 9-15 (ANN)
• 15 Titles Nominated for 5th Manga Taisho Awards (ANN)
• Why ANN Is Against SOPA-PIPA (ANN)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Une application pour venir en aide aux jeunes salariés du Québec (MacQuébec)
• Taxes Québec: calcul rapide des taxes et du pourboire (MacQuébec)
• How Apple iBooks needs to compete with Amazon: Better author tools (TUAW)
• Vimeo updates iOS app to include iPad, releases Android and Windows Phone apps too (Engadget)
• App downloads top 1 billion during the holiday week (Engadget)
• Force Quit Frozen Apps On Your iPad Or iPhone In Two Easy Steps [How-To] (Cult of Mac)
• Skype 5.5 Beta For Mac Released With Design Improvements And New Call Features (Cult of Mac)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Hard-Boiled Wonderland: Haruki Murakami (Fractale Framboise)
• The Road: En commençant par la fin du monde (Culture des futurs)
• Why Do Libraries Have That Smell? (Popular Science)
• Barnes & Noble looks to offload publishing in e-book shift (Electronista)
• Polars: Un trio infernal (Le Devoir)
• 18 millions $ pour une bibliothèque fermée? (Canoe)
• Bayard renouvelle son offre sur Internet pour séduire les petits et surtout leurs parents (Le Monde)
• Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption (USA Today)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• A-t-on atteint un « pic des objets » ? (Le Monde)
• The Brightest, Most Efficient Bulbs (WSJ)

Health, home & garden

• La «santé numérique» pourrait progresser en 2012 (Cyberpresse)
• Fitness: Diet is less important than being active (The Gazette)
• Jardin d’hiver (Cyberpresse)

Local News & National Politics

• Moins de neige et plus de verglas que prévu (Cyberpresse)
• Hold on to your ticket, STM reminds riders (The Gazette)

Media, Culture, & Society

• ‘Star Wars’ Live-Action Series Has a Name (ICv2)
• Downton Abbey Costumes Are Recycled From Other Shows (Huffington Post)
• The 12 Best Television Series Of 2011 (MediaPost) [ I confirm that Downton Abbey, Game of Thrones, Homeland, Doctor Who, and The Walking Dead are amongst the best shows I’ve seen this year ]
• Fringe: Is It Over For The Fox Show? (Huffington Post)
• Nielsen’s 2011 media usage report: conventional TV still rules, but online viewing is skyrocketing (Engadget)
• People’s Choice Awards 2012: Chloe Moretz, Bridesmaids, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 Among Winners (MovieFone)
• Le syndicat demande le retour de Mélissa François (Cyberpresse) [ J’admet que c’est un peu fort de mettre une “journaliste” à la porte pour une simple erreur de lecture et la honte qu’elle doit ressentir doit être déjà assez comme punition. Par contre, si elle ne fait que lire le téléprompteur et ignore qui est Kim Jong Il, sa place ne devrait peut être pas être au pupitre de nouvelles… ]
• What has happened to the notion of customer service? (West Island Gazette) [ I agree that simple courtesy is no longer valued in our society and understand well the problem having been on both side of the counter ]
• Une carte des séries américaines (Le Monde)
• Those ‘Borgias,’ bad to the bone (USA Today)
• Hugo, Tintin Win Golden Globes (ICv2)
• Walking Dead writers: We don’t know what created ‘walkers’ (The Gazette)
• HBO announces premiere date for Game of Thrones season 2 (JoBlo)
• 69th annual Golden Globes winners (USA Today)
• BAFTA Nominations 2012: The Artist Leads The Way (Huffington Post)

Sciences & History

• Plus de planètes que d’étoiles dans notre galaxie (Cyberpresse)
• Milky Way teeming with billions of planets (The Gazette)
• Hawking urges space flight to save humanity (The Gazette)
• Pour qui donc, à Pompéi, s’élevaient ces phallus ? (Le Monde)
• Newly Found Meteorites Came From Mars, Scientists Confirm (Popular Science)
• Lost Charles Darwin fossils rediscovered in cabinet (BBC)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• PC ou Mac? Que choisir si vous êtes un(e) aîné(e), ou hésitez entre les deux (MacQuébec)
• Pourra-t-on bientôt insulter son patron sur Facebook ? (Le Monde)
• Wikipédia fermera son site mercredi (Cyberpresse)
• UltraViolet: la lente agonie planifiée du format Blu-ray (Cyberpresse)
• SOPA blackouts: Wikipedia, Google and Reddit join protest (The Gazette)
• Google, Wikipedia and others protest SOPA – PIPA (Engadget)
• SOPA bill revisions to resume in February (Electronista)
• SOPA and PIPA laws would affect Canadians if passed (The Gazette)
• Gallery: 10 awesome SOPA blackouts (The Gazette)
• SOPA, PIPA, et la crainte d’un filtrage du Web à grande échelle (Le Monde)
• Net-Rule Doubts Hit Congress (WSJ)