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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Actor Masi Oka a geek at heart (USA Today)
• Seven Seas Adds Two Manga series (ICv2)
• Ghibli’s From Up On Poppy Hill Wins Japan Academy Prize (ANN)
• Rebirth wins the 35th Japan Academy Prize (????????????? / Asian Wiki)
• Arrietty Film Now Highest-Grossing Ghibli Film in U.S. (ANN)
• Please Don’t Screw Up This Manga: Bleach to get the big screen treatment (JoBlo)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• iMac Wi-Fi Update 1.0 resolves wake from sleep issue (TUAW)
• Adobe Photoshop Touch brings the flagship retouching app to the iPad 2 (TUAW)
• Apple’s iBooks Featuring Comics (ICv2)
• New York Post discusses Apple TV, subscriptions (TUAW)
• AirServer pour Mac offre maintenant le AirPlay Mirroring (MacQuébec)
• Apple confirms iPad event for March 7th in San Francisco (Electronista)
• March 7 it is: Apple confirms iPad event (GigaOM)
• AirServer Mirrors iPad Screen On Your Mac (Cult of Mac)
• iPhone-iPad: les appli préférées de la rédaction (Le Monde)
• Apple expected to sell 100 millionth iPad this year (USA Today)
• Beyond browsing: How to use Safari like a pro (USA Today)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Nouvelle collection de livres téléchargeables (BPM)
• La friction est une fiction dans l’écosystème du livre numérique (Bibliomancienne / Voir.ca)
• Metropolitan news: N.D.G.’s library sign & al. (The Gazette)
• Little Libraries have people thinking (and reading) outside the box (USA Today)
• Lancement de Pretnumerique.ca: mise en contexte (Espace B)
• Vient de paraître: Murakami, format poche (Le Devoir)
• Confessions of a library addict (The Gazette)
• Random House drastically raises the price of e-books for libraries (Engadget)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Le réchauffement de l’Arctique apporte froid et neige à l’Europe (Cyberpresse)
• Death toll at 37 after tornadoes rage across U.S. (The Gazette)
• Canadians expect to work past age 66: survey (The Gazette)
• Le Midwest américain frappé par une série de tornades meurtrières (Le Monde)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Une révolution cinéphile (Le Devoir)
• Graphic Novel Film Gets Five Oscars (ICv2)
• ‘The Walking Dead’ Governor Cast (ICv2)
• Another ‘Game of Thrones’ Trailer (ICv2)
• La Cinémathèque s’estime au bord du gouffre (Le Devoir)
• Téléfilm Canada compte appuyer les longs métrages à petit budget (Le Devoir)
• Computers in schools: money well-spent, Concordia University study says (The Gazette)
• Ten Minute ‘John Carter’ Sequence (ICv2)
• WSJ: Walmart to offer in-store disc to digital UltraViolet service (Engadget)

Sciences & History

• Le neutrino, la vitesse de la lumière et le GPS défectueux (Le Monde)
• Une Pompéi végétale de 300 millions d’années exhumée en Chine (Le Monde)
• Ancient cave speaks of Hades myth (USA Today)
• Otzi the prehistoric iceman’s DNA data revealed (The Gazette)
• There Are Way More Blood Types Than You Think (Popular Science)
• Bummer: Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Weren’t, and It Was the Cable Guy’s Fault (Popular Science)
• Tissint, la martienne qui fascine (Le Monde)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• VLC, le succès du lecteur “made in France” (Le Monde)
• How to photograph the daytime sky (USA TOday)
• Some subscribers choosing to cut the cable (The Gazette)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM)

• Municipal pension talks going well, but issue may persist for two years (The Gazette)