The last two weeks were rather eventful: I felt quite poorly, document.write(“”); got a new iPad Air, had to deal with a twenty-seven-hour power outage, got my flu shot, since the temperature is getting much colder I took a few kittens inside the house (I’ll keep one and try to find someone to adopt the other two), and had to deal with a bogus order from Amazon (ordered a book in english and received it in spanish!). With all that I didn’t write much (two comments about children books (in french): one about Japanese holidays and one about growing tomatoes; and my pile of books to read is getting even taller!). I probably watch too much TV. Two British series that particularly stand out: Atlantis (a mythology-themed adventure series quite similar to Sinbad) and The Paradise (an epoch drama based on a novel by Émile Zola; it’s made by the same creator & producers (and with many actors) from Lark Rise to Candleford, and is also quite similar to Mr Selfridge–which was produced before The Paradise but was pushed back and aired after in order to avoid having two similar shows competing for the audience). And now I am so tired…
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On the world stage, I’ve found again nearly an hundred interesting stories that I will share with you after the jump:
Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture
- Graphic Novels on the Rise (ICv2)
- Top 25 Manga Properties for the Summer 2013: Top 10 Shonen and Top 10 Shojo (ICv2)
- Viz Launches on iBooks With 1600 Titles (ICv2)
- Review: Vinland Saga Book One (ICv2)
- Crunchyroll Sold As New Manga Service Launches (ICv2)
- ‘Robotech RPG Tactics’ Delayed (ICv2)
- Ghibli’s Suzuki: Hayao Miyazaki Is Drawing Samurai Manga (ANN)
- Sentai Filmworks Adds Gainax’s Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water TV (ANN) [Ah! The return of a great classic!]
- New Portuguese Manga “Butterfly Chronicles” by João Mascarenhas out now in ebook format: First story for free! (link) [Once again: it’s not a manga if it’s not Japanese!]
Apple, apps and mobile devices news
- iPad Air reviews are in and are overwhelmingly positive (TUAW)
- First iPad Air Reviews: ‘Ridiculously Small and Light’, Apple’s Most ‘Tempting Tablet Yet’ (Mac Rumors)
- iPad Air reviews go live, highlight thinner & lighter form factor, battery life, and speed improvements (9 to 5 Mac)
- iPad Air reviews (iMore)
- Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air (AllThingsD)
- Apple testing Mail update for OS X Mavericks to fix Gmail, stability, and smart mailbox issues (9to5 Mac)
- iPad Air, expérience d’achat et premières impressions (MacQuébec)
- 24 hours with the iPad Air: First Impressions (Today’s iPhone)
- iPad Air bullet point impressions (AppleTell)
- Got a new iPad Air? Don’t forget your free iLife and iWork apps from Apple! (iMore)
- 75% of iPad Buyers Already Own One: Buyers Upgrade Every 23 Months (MacTrast)
- Getting Started With Your New iPad Air (MacTrast)
- How to Migrate Your Apps, Content, and Settings to Your New iPad (MacTrast)
- iPad Air Smart Case review (iMore)
- iPad Air Smart Case vs. Smart Cover: Which should you get? (iMore)
- iPad Air popular upgrade for iPad 2 owners, silver 16GB model in high demand: survey (Apple Insider)
- Apple releases iTunes 11.1.3 with equalizer and large library performance improvements (TUAW)
- Taxi coop mtl on the App Store on iTunes (link)
- Going beyond cameras with the Apple Lightning to USB adapter (iMore)
- iPad Air Smart Cover not aligning properly? You’re not alone (Today’s iPhone)
- RunKeeper Update Brings M7 Coprocessor Support, AirDrop Sharing (Cult of Mac)
- Apple Releases Fixes for Mavericks Mail and iBooks (MacTrast)
- A week with the iPad Air in three words: Believe. The. Hype. (9to5 Mac) [I totally agree!]
Books, Digital Edition & Libraries
- La «trahison» de deux auteures à succès (Le Devoir)
- How to Use the Improved Digital Storefronts (ICv2)
- E-Books Topping Out (ICv2)
- USA Today Becomes Most Widely-Circulated Daily Newspaper In America (Huffington Post)
- BuzzFeed Decides Criticizing Awful Books Is Too Mean (The Atlantic Wire)
- Bras de fer entre Costco et Michel Tremblay (Le Devoir)
- Les bibliothèques amorcent leur métamorphose (UdeM Nouvelles)
Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics
- These Big-Eyed Fish Are Vacuuming Up Our Plastic Pollution At Night (Co-Exist)
- How Earth’s coastlines would look if all ice melted (Gizmodo)
- Your Election News In Five Headlines (NPR)
- Super Typhoon Haiyan: The Most Powerful Cyclone in History? (The Atlantic Cities)
- Typhoon Haiyan: Hundreds feared dead in Philippines (BBC)
- Typhoon Haiyan death toll in Philippines estimated at 1,200 (The Guardian)
Health, home & garden
- Alzheimer’s study reveals new genes implicated in disease (The Guardian)
- Uber Breaks Hearts With Short Supply Of Kittens On Cat Day (Huffington Post)
- Glooko’s mobile diabetes management service now supports Android devices (The Next Web)
- Setting the Record Straight: Debunking All the Flu Vaccine Myths (Gizmodo)
- Le Canada, un des meilleurs pays où vivre, selon l’OCDE (La Presse)
- Paléo, le nouvel avenir? (La Presse)
- Canadians among top seven nations for living well, says OECD ranking (The Gazette)
- Freezing food is one of safest preservation methods; risk in thawing, however (The Gazette)
- Speaking a second language delays dementias, even in the illiterate, study finds (Le Monde)
- Are you sick? Get ready for your iPhone to take your temperature and diagnose your illness (TUAW)
- Smoggy Beijing sees lung cancer cases soar (BBC)
Humour
Local News & National Politics
- Québec veut développer la voiture électrique (La Presse)
- Coderre aux commandes (Le Devoir)
- Une défaite au parfum de victoire pour Joly (Le Devoir)
- Montreal fireball video goes viral, gets international attention (The Gazette)
- Habiter à Montréal: les prix baissent, pas l’évaluation (La Presse)[Ça a vraiment pas d’allure! Comment respecter une promesse électorale tout en remplissant les coffres de la ville!]
- Des compteurs intelligents qui prennent feu? (Canoe)
- Charte des valeurs: Le PQ durcit sa position (Le Devoir)
Media, Culture, & Society
- 14 plumes pour un Devoir tout en bande dessinée (Le Devoir)
- Olivia Colman confirms Broadchurch return (BBC)
- Trente minutes inédites du tournage du «Retour du Jedi» retrouvées sur eBay (Le Monde)
- Funds sought for science fiction museum lift-off (USA Today)
- Bezos’ Amazon: Mercenary or missionary, or both? (USA Today)
- Latest Marvel Comics Superhero: A Muslim Pakistani-American Teen Girl (People)
Sciences & History
- What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like (Open Culture)
- Des livres calcinés du Parlement du Canada-Uni retrouvés dans le Vieux-Montréal (Le Devoir)
- Le site de l’ancien Parlement du Canada-Uni à Montréal livre d’autres secrets (Huffington Post)
- Rare hybrid solar eclipse wows world (NBC)
- How a Genome Hacker Made a Family Tree With 13 Million Branches (Gizmodo)
- Climb Your Family Tree With These Online Genealogy Tools (Gizmodo)
- Nazi trove in Munich contains unknown works by masters (BBC)
- One in five suns has habitable world (BBC)
- Rare solar eclipse in America, Europe and Africa (BBC)
- Le mystère de la mort de Toutankhamon enfin élucidé (Le Monde)
- Mises en garde d’Eisenhower, 1961 (Le Monde)
- «La Guerre des mondes» d’Orson Welles n’aurait pas suscité d’hystérie collective (Le Monde)
- Non Agitare: Roman Ruins HD Is Your Guide To The Empire (Cult of Mac)
- Mystery of King Tut’s Death Solved? Maybe Not (National Geographic)
- Roman Ruins HD for iPad is a terrific way to explore ancient Rome (TUAW)
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
- Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons Of Free Stuff (NPR) [a dream job]
- Evernote And Adonit Team Up To Make Penultimate-Friendly Stylus (Cult of Mac)
- Sony launches 8 million flower petals from a volcano to promote its 4K TVs (The Verge)
- Philips announces three new iPhone connected light bulbs (Today’s iPhone)
Union stuff & Montreal’s libraries
- Marie D. Martel: Plus de bibliothèques à Montréal (Métro)
- Le catalogue Nelligan en version mobile (BiblioMontreal)
- Près de 12 000 classiques du cinéma dans les Bibliothèques de Montréal (BiblioMontreal)
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