08 | May | 2013 | Clodjee's Safe-House

The last few weeks were quite eventful: there was a terrorist attack at the Boston marathon, document.write(“”); ricin letters were sent to Obama and some members of Congress, a fertilizer plant exploded in Texas, etc. Spring is definitely here since I saw flights of geese going north, but winter doesn’t want to be forgotten yet. One day, toward the end of april, we saw all kind of weather altogether: it rained, snowed and we even got hail! The next day, my wife and I were celebrating the 2nd year in our new house. As soon as may started, the summer showed its warm face as temperature raised around 15 and 20 degrees celsius, but trees were still bare. I was longing for some green foliage and flowers. It all came out in the last week. Now we really feel the summer. This week-end, after attending Boréal, we have started to work on the garden, cleaning up and planting tomatoes and other vegetables. With all this, I was quite busy so I didn’t gather much news links. Check my slim pick after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

Kansai Club Publishing to Release Osamu Tezuka’s The Crater (ANN)
Ghibli Director Goro Miyazaki Aims to Complete New Work in 2014 (ANN)
Cruise in Yukikaze (ICv2)
2013 Eisner Nominations (ICv2)
Anime Consortium to Launch in U.S. (ICv2)
Robotech RPG Tactics Blows through Goal (ICv2)
Sion Sono : “Comprendre Fukushima non par la logique, mais par l’émotion” (Le Monde)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

WhereverTV streaming service still exists, is now available on iOS (Engadget)
Delicious Library 3 to add recommendation engine, iOS cataloging app (TUAW)
GoComics app released for iOS, Android and Windows Phone, digitizes the Sunday funnies (Engadget)
Apple may post WWDC 2013 videos while conference still underway (MacNN)
WWDC 2013 to take place June 10 through 14 (MacNN)
Delicious Monster releases Delicious Library 3 with companion iOS scanner app (TUAW)
Google Now, maintenant sur iOS (MacQuébec)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

To Self-Publish or Not? A Word of Warning (NYT)
With Bookselling in Deep Turmoil, Book Sales Are on the Rise (The Atlantic)
Au Québec, “La Presse” fait le pari de l’iPad et de la gratuité (Le Monde)
Viens dans mon e-comic strip (Le Monde)
E-Reading Rainbow: Hachette to bring entire e-book catalog to public libraries (Engadget)
Printed books are still favored by Brits, but digital sales are rising (Engadget)

Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics

Terreur au marathon de Boston (Le Devoir)
Video Points Investigators Toward Suspect in Boston Bombings (NYT)
Attentat de Boston: «Capturé! La terreur a pris fin.» (Le Devoir)
Why does America lose its head over ‘terror’ but ignore its daily gun deaths? (The Guardian)
Israel: Syria has used chemical weapons, victims seen ‘foaming from the mouth’ (NBC)
Focus Shifts in Ricin Case as Charges Are Dropped (NYT)
Texas explosion: residents of West shocked by devastation (NYT)
Oslo’s So Good at Recycling that It’s Run Out of Trash (Gizmodo)
Suicides soar among US middle-aged people (BBC)

Health, home & garden

Wake up! 9 hours of sleep a night not so healthy (Today)

Humour

Rhymes with Orange (2013-03-07)
Pearls before swine (2013-03-09)
Non sequitur (2013-03-25)
Zits (2013-04-03)
Unshelved (2013-04-11)
Sciences & History