April already. Still tired and a little depressed for no real reasons other than probably the end of winter blah. Still got mice problem: the cats got a tiny one on the first floor (they’re spreading and reproducing! But it seems that cats are the best countermeasure). Winter came back for a last hurrah and we got snow again last friday. They were forecasting fifteen centimetres but we probably got no more than five on the ground. Very wet snow. And it melted completely within two days. And I have a damn cold again.
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Besides the deaths of Roger Ebert and Margaret Thatcher, document.write(“”); or the sabre rattling of North Korea (trying to bully the West into getting more aid again; when you comply to taxing you just show that you’re weak; they should give them a good lesson for once and for all), it was a very quiet couple of weeks in the news. Have a look on the links after the jump:
Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture
- Viz Media Reaches New Milestone with Weekly Shonen Jump iPad Newsstand App Debut (ANN)
- Tezuka, Tagame, Sugiura, & More PictureBox’s 2013 Manga (ICv2)
- Robotech RPG Tactics (ICv2)
Apple, apps and mobile devices news
- iBook Lessons: Why the Kindle App is still the best reader on iOS (TUAW)
- Microsoft to end support for Office for Mac 2008 on April 9 (MacNN)
Books, Digital Edition & Library
- Mort de Fred, père de «Philémon» et «conteur éclectique» (Le Nouvel Observateur)
- British Library to begin web harvest (The Telegraph)
- Searching for Bill Watterson (Salon)
- E-lending could signal a new chapter for libraries (The Guardian)
- Barnes and Noble deploys new self-publishing service Nook Press (Electronista)
- AAP reports e-books now account for over 22 percent of US publishers’ revenue (Engadget)
- Haruki Murakami fans queue overnight for latest novel (The Guardian)
- Are cats top dogs in the world of literature? (The Guardian)
- Fred s’est encore évadé (Le Monde)
Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics
- Jay-Z, Beyonce Cuba Trip- Open Letter Diss (Business Insider)
- Les Etats-Unis sont “déterminés à défendre le Japon” face à Pyongyang (Le Monde)
- La “Dame de fer” laisse à son pays un lourd héritage (Le Monde)
- How Jorge Mario Bergoglio Became Pope Francis (WSJ)
Health, home & garden
- There’s an All-Natural Bed Bug Cure That Actually Works (Gizmodo) [Something to keep in mind if you ever get bedbugs; I’m paranoid about this and hope to never have to deal with that]
- Le virus H7N9 de la grippe aviaire se propage en Chine (Le Monde)
Local News & National Politics
- Ottawa impose le bâillon aux archivistes (Le Devoir)
- Canada: le jeu vidéo en transition (Le Monde)
- Les conservateurs lancent leurs premières publicités négatives contre Trudeau (Le Devoir)
- Rapatriement de 1982: Québec prépare son offensive (Le Devoir)
Media, Culture, & Society
- Walking Dead, Game of Thrones Set Records (ICv2)
- Game of Thrones Renewed (ICv2)
- Game of Thrones Breaks BitTorrent Swarm Record (ICv2)
- A Critic for the Common Man (NYT)
- La télé est morte, vive la télé! (Le Devoir)
- Vikings Gets A Second Season! (Geek Tyrant)
- Recycled Movie Costumes: Fan’s Tumblr Points Out Hollywood’s Practice of Reusing Old Designs (Moviefone) [My wife often point this out to me]
- Natalie Dormer On The Elementary Set With Jonny Lee Miller (Huffington Post)
- HBO Announces Its Summer Start Date for Season Two of The Newsroom (Indie Wire)
- Game of Thrones: Le phénomène (Le Monde)
- The best of spring TV (USA Today)
- No TV? 5 million U.S. households bid boob tube goodbye (USA Today)
Sciences & History
- Space Station’s Giant Antimatter Magnet Finds Abundance Of Mysterious Particles (Popular Science)
- Passing gas: A modern scientific history (Salon)
- Amateur space enthusiasts may have discovered missing Soviet Mars lander (The Verge)
- The Beginning of the Universe Explained (Gizmodo)
- Terahertz scanner reveals hidden fresco at Louvre (BBC)
- Des conservateurs américains nient la relativité d’Einstein (Le Monde)
- No, Jesus wasn’t a white dude (Salon)
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
Union stuff & Montreal’s libraries
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