After over seven years and a little more than five-hundred posts (as well as nearly forty-thousands pageviews), I am still blogging (or doing my best to). I also keep reading the news online as often as I can. In the last couple of weeks, the story that dominated the tech news (and was of a particular interest for me) was Apple announcing many new products (the new iPad mini, of course, but mostly the new iMac — I’ll finally be able to replace my dead desktop, sometime in November, and I just can’t wait to pre-order it). In the local news, everyone is still talking mostly about corruption (The Gazette, La Presse) and in the U.S. all minds are on the beginning of the last stretch of the electoral campaign for the presidential election (The Gazette, La Presse). And, of course, everyone is anxiously looking at the incoming super-storm Sandy (The Gazette, La Presse). So, again, I am sharing nearly a hundred more links with you after the jump:

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Décès accidentiel du réalisateur japonais Koji Wakamatsu (La Presse)
• Une blague de Laurent Ruquier indigne le Japon (Le Monde)
• Le cinéaste japonais Koji Wakamatsu est mort accidentellement (Le Monde)
• Kodansha USA Announces Sailor Moon Art Book (ICv2)
• Top 25 Manga Properties: Summer 2012 [ Top 10 Shojo, Top 10 Shonen ] (ICv2)
• 15,000 Manga on Kindle in Japan (ICv2)
• Exposition rétro-technologique au Japon (Le Monde)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Apple sending out invites for October 23 event (Electronista)
• Media invitations for October 23 Apple event are in the air (TUAW)
• Recall Is The Wish List You’ve Always Wanted On The iPhone (Cult of Mac)
• iPad Mini to Hit Retail Shelves on November 2? (MacTrast)
• Oh: New Glamour Shots of the Brydge iPad Keyboard Case (iPad Insight)
• Russian Orthodox Christian Priests Upset Because The Apple Logo Is A Symbol Of Sin (Cult of Mac)
• Rumor: iPad mini pre-orders to start on Oct 26th, public release: Nov 2 (Todays iPhone)
• Next-gen desktop Macs to have the same or similar pricing to current generation (Todays iPhone)
• Barrettes de 8 Go de mémoire vive pour l’iMac et le Mac mini (MacQuébec)
• Mise à jour de VLC (MacQuébec)
• Put Google Maps back on your iPhone with Maps+ (TUAW, iTunes App Store)
• Reports: iTunes 11, iBooks 3 to also get October release (MacNN)
• The next Macs: What we expect (CNET)
• Rumor Roundup: A little more to show you (TUAW)
• Steve Jobs hits the web with details of early days at NeXT (Todays iPhone)
• Gift a Photo Book for $20 With ‘Mosaic’, Right From the iPhone (Mac Rumors)
• ‘iPad mini’ event will be streamed live to Apple TV, Mac & iOS devices (Apple Insider)
• Apple’s Oct. 23rd event roundup: iPad mini, 4th gen iPad, new iMac, 13-inch Retina MBP and more (Engadget)
• Roundup: Hands-on with Apple’s new hardware (TUAW)
• Apple unveils iPad Mini, new Macs (USA Today)
• Apple introduces new line of iMacs (TUAW)
• 21.5″ iMac Has No User-Upgradable RAM; 27″ Has Four Accessible RAM Slots (Mac Rumors)
• Apple releases iBooks 3, iBooks Author 2 (TUAW)
• iPhone iOS 6: comment personnaliser le vibreur (MacQuébec)
• Skype 6.0 for Mac available with Facebook, Microsoft logins (TUAW)
• Apple releases OS X Mountain Lion update tailored to new Macs (Apple Insider)
• Apple’s Phil Schiller on the State of the Mac (Time)
• The 21.5-Inch iMac No Longer Allows For RAM Upgrades (Macgasm)
• Apple Says New Super-Thin iMacs Will Be In Short Supply Once They’re Released (Cult of Mac)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Le magazine “Newsweek” va arrêter son édition papier (Le Monde)
• Sentiment tracker: Newsweek stops the presses (WSJ)
• Joe Queenan: My 6,128 Favorite Books (WSJ)
• Zone d’écriture: Conseil d’écriture: Mario Tessier (Radio-Canada)
• You Don’t Own the Books on Your Kindle (Gizmodo)
• Une première analyse du DALIAF (Culture des futurs)
• Young and old differ on ebook preferences, according to US study (The Gazette)
• Book Publisher Consolidation (ICv2)
• How Will New Tablets Impact Business? (ICv2)
• Random House, Penguin Books to merge (The Gazette)
• Décès de Jacques Goimard, écrivain et spécialiste de SFF (ActuaLitté)
• Penguin and Random House merge, promise a brave new e-book future (Engadget)

Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics

• A Châteauroux, le “pari risqué” de la gratuité des bus (Le Monde)
• Family of Wen Jiabao Holds a Hidden Fortune in China (NYT)
• China’s Wen Jiabao family rejects New York Times claims (BBC)
• Vampire electronics cause higher electric bills (USA Today)

Local News & National Politics

• Montréal achète des «nez électroniques» (Canoe)
• Le métro entièrement branché d’ici 2016 (Métro)
• Une interruption temporaire de service a eu lieu (24h Montréal)
• Census: language in numbers (The Gazette)
• Montreal spared Hurricane Sandy’s devastation but expect 90-km winds, heavy rain (The Gazette)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Les jeux de la mémoire et de l’oubli: le Japon au FNCM 2012 (Shomingekiblog)
• Sylvia Kristel, star of Emmanuelle, dies (BBC)
• Homeland angers minister over depiction of Beirut (BBC)
• David Mitchell on the Film Adaptation of Cloud Atlas (WSJ)
• Prometheus already available for rent & purchase on iTunes! (link)
• Dan Stevens Leaving Downton Abbey? (Huffington Post)
• Homeland Renewed: Showtime Orders Season 3 (Huffington Post)
• Actor Tom Weston-Jones Talks Love of Nat Geo, Copper Finale (Huffington Post)

Sciences & History

• Scientists Find An Earth-Sized Planet At Alpha Centauri (Forbes)
• An Earth-Sized Planet Has Been Discovered in Alpha Centauri, the Star System Closest to Us (Gizmodo)
• This Natural Phenomenon Time Lapse Is Completely Unreal (Gizmodo)
• La Lune est bel et bien née dans la tourmente (Radio-Canada)
• Moon formation: New spins put on old questions (BBC)
• Chalice of Abbot Suger: Opulence Fit for the King of Kings (WSJ)
• The next generation of the Genographic Participation Kit (Link)
• La condamnation des sismologues italiens suscite l’indignation (Le Devoir)
• Auto-tune this! Research team restores 134 year-old audio recording (Engadget)
• ‘Oldest Maya tomb’ found in Guatemala’s Retalhule (BBC)
• These Fascinating Alien Embryos Are Actually Bat Fetuses (Gizmodo)
• L’Aquila ruling: Should scientists stop giving advice? (BBC)
• Les « pyramides » découvertes grâce à Google Earth… n’en sont pas (Le Monde)
• La sélection scientifique de la semaine (Le Monde)
• Celtic sacrifices confirmed at famed ancient site (USA Today)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Votre intimité profite à Facebook (Le Devoir)
• The Next Wave in Lighting and the Internet of Things (Forbes, link)
• Light up Greenwave Reality’s smart bulbs with your iPhone (TUAW)
• This Is How Thieves Will Snatch Your Phone On the Train (Gizmodo)
• Les sites tombeaux de Chris Marker et Koji Wakamatsu (Le Monde)
• Philips Hue LED bulbs get wireless iOS control (iPodNN, Apple Insider, MacQuébec, Apple Store US, link) [ See more App-Enabled Accessories on the Apple Store US or Can ]

Union stuff & Montreal’s libraries

• Labouring against union decline (The Gazette)
• Les cols bleus de Montréal entérinent l’accord (Métro)
• Les cols bleus de Montréal acceptent l’entente de principe à 95,4% (Radio-Canada)

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I slowly succeed to catch up on my work around the house and in blogging. The three big news of the last couple of weeks are the rumors (again) of Apple updating its iMac line (possibly announced next week along the smaller iPad, document.write(“”); a 13 Inch Retina MacBook Pro an even a possible new Mac Mini — I hope I’ll finally be able to replace my broken iMac), the 4.5-magnitude earthquake that I felt very early last wednesday (it didn’t really shake but felt more like one big jolt), and Felix Baumgartner’s parachute jump from the edge of space (I watched him live on YouTube as he broke several records and no bones). As usual I’ve gathered the links to the most interesting news and I am sharing them with you after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Manga Back on Top (ICv2)
• Three New Manga from Seven Seas (ICv2)
• Studio Ghibli’s From Up on Poppy Hill Gets English Language Cast (Slash Film)
• Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual (September) (ICv2)
• Latest Fredrik Schodt’s book: Professor Risley and the Imperial Japanese Troupe (SBP)
• L’art du rire à la Maison du Japon à Paris (Le Monde)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Apple updates iPhoto, runs customer survey on it (MacNN)
• Rumors of an Apple event in October (TUAW)
• iBook Lessons: Traditional publishers react to new trends (TUAW)
• Google to reveal Street View for iOS web app tomorrow (iPodNN)
• Street View comes to Google Maps web app on iOS, just like they said it would (Engadget)
• Apple extends extra iCloud storage for Mobile Me members (MacNN)
• Siri parle maintenant québécois (MacQuébec)
• Missing your iDisk? OpenDrive is an easy-to-use substitute (TUAW)
• Apple ‘likely’ to unveil ‘iPad mini’ at event on Oct. 23: report (Apple Insider)
• Leaked iMac parts suggest Apple set to release new model with thinner design (Apple Insider)
• New 21 Inch iMac And 13 Inch Retina MacBook Pro Will Share iPad Mini Spotlight Next Week (Forbes)
• New details on new Macs rumored for Oct. 23 Apple event (iMore)
• New Teardrop-Shaped iMacs Will Be Unveiled At iPad Mini Event This Month (Cult of Mac)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Les ventes de livres électroniques en pleine progression au Canada (La Presse)
• E-books gaining traction in Canada; print still tops (The Gazette)
• Une liseuse moins chère qu’un livre ! (Le Monde)
• Library contribution to Google scanning declared ‘fair use’ (Electronista)
• Ten ways to save the publishing industry (The Guardian)
• Amazon, Apple customers to get credits for price-fixed e-books (TUAW)
• Apple and Amazon notify customers of $69M State settlement with publishers, how to get credit (9 to 5 Mac)
• Washington Library Responds to Complaint About Child Borrowing Yaoi Manga (ANN)

Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics

• World of Warcraft hobby sparks US political row (BBC)
• Iran’s Fars agency sorry for running the Onion spoof story (BBC)
• A qui appartiennent les îles Senkaku-Diaoyu (Le Monde)
• A massive and illegal geoengineering project has been detected off Canada’s west coast (IO9)

Health, home & garden

• New drug helps to stave off Alzheimer’s memory loss (The Gazette)
• Épidémie de poux: un guide gouvernemental, “Tout savoir sur les poux de tête” (lien, PDF)

Local News & National Politics

• Montreal earthquake rattles city, western Quebec Wednesday morning (National Post)
• Quake felt across Montreal region (The Gazette)
• Un séisme qui réveille (Journal de Montréal)

Media, Culture, & Society

• BFI to digitize 10,000 British films as part of Film Forever investment plan (Engadget)
• “Il était une fois l’impressionnisme” au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal (Lien)
• Article sur l’exposition “Gloires passagères“ de Louis Fortier à la Galerie d’Art d’Outremont (L’Express D’Outremont)

Sciences & History

• Leap of faith: Felix Baumgartner’s historic jump from the edge of space (Engadget)
• French beekeepers in Ribeauville abuzz over blue honey (BBC)
• En Alsace, une colonie d’abeilles produit un mystérieux miel bleu (Le Monde)
• Google met en ligne des archives de l’histoire du XXe siècle (Le Devoir)
• Une météorite martienne révèle ses secrets (Radio-Canada)
• Skydiver breaks speed of sound in historic jump from edge of space (CNN)
• Felix Baumgarter breaks YouTube record as 8 million viewers watch his space jump (Engadget)
• Les vents solaires, source d’eau sur la Lune (Radio-Canada)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Second-generation Nest brings slimmer design, more functionality (Apple Insider)
• Nest available at Amazon.ca (Link)
• New Nest Thermostat: Thinner, Sleeker, Better. Sound Familiar? (Cult of Mac)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM) & Montreal’s libraries

• 109 au 409, L’alternative syndicale pour les fonctionnaires municipaux de Montréal: une première conférence (Lien)
• Entente «historique» entre Montréal et ses cols bleus (Métro)
• Entente de principe intervenue entre la Ville de Montréal et le Syndicat des cols bleus regroupés de Montréal, section locale 301 (Communiqué)

Not much change this month as I was still too busy and tired to do much. But I always have enough energy to gather scraplinks and share them with you after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, document.write(“”); Japan, Popular Culture

• KURATAS, un robot de Suidobashi Heavy Industries contrôlé par iPhone (MacQuébec)
• Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin’s 3-Minute TV Preview Aired (ANN)
• Jiro Taniguchi’s A Zoo in Winter Nominated for Ignatz Award (ANN)
• Interview: Naoki Urasawa (ANN)
• Ken Watanabe will star in a Japanese samurai remake of Unforgiven (JoBlo)
• Tout Goldorak en DVD (La Presse)
• Bandai Ending Sales of Manga and Anime (ICv2)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• App Store has growing population of never-downloaded “zombie apps” (TUAW)
• Apple files hint at re-engineered iMac and Mac Pro models, potentially without optical drives (Apple Insider)
• Lapka launches Environmental Monitor for iPhone (Electronista)
• OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion gripe list (TUAW)
• iPad + machine à écrire = iTypeWriter (MacQuébec)
• Bluetooth Bulb lets you switch on, time, dim and color your lighting from your phone (Engadget)
• Warhammer Quest coming to the App Store next year (TUAW)
• Verizon vacation ban may back September 21 iPhone launch (Electronista)
• Report: 27-inch iMac in short supply from resellers (Electronista)
• Apple releases Mountain Lion OS X 10.8.1 with iMessage, Migration Assistant fixes (Apple Insider)
• VMware launches Fusion 5 with 70 new features including Windows 8 optimization (Apple Insider)
• Apple wins big over Samsung, $1.05 billion in damages (Electronista)
• Apple to hold separate iPhone, iPad launch events? (Electronista)
• Une trame sonore pour les usagers du transport en commun à Montréal (Canoe)
• Apple adds support options for iBookstore publishers (TUAW)
• Ready for iPhone 5? Apple announces event next week (CNN)
• Apple’s new iMac expected to be redesigned without Retina display (Apple Insider)
• Apple announces September 12th press event (iPodNN)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• L’auteur de science-fiction Roland C. Wagner est décédé (20 minutes)
• Magazine Sales in Free Fall (ICv2)
• Et le prix du livre ? (Le Devoir)
• Amazon Publishing inks deal with Ingram, opens e-book distribution to rivals (Engadget)
• Authors group, licensing expert slam DOJ’s e-book settlement (Electronista)
• Gallimard achète Flammarion alors que le livre numérique décolle (iGen)
• Prêt d’iPad dans les bibliothèques du Québec (MacQuébec)
• New York bookshop launches rescue mission to digitize out-of-print sci-fi titles (Engadget)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Census Bureau releases first mobile app, offers real-time stats on the US economy (Engadget)
• Clint Eastwood, les républicains et la chaise vide (Radio-Canada)

Health, home & garden

• Le pigeon: Le meilleur ennemi de l’homme (Le Devoir)
• Can cats make their owners schizophrenic? (The Week)
• Toxoplasma Gondii Brain Parasite Infection From Cats Linked To Schizophrenia, Suicide (Huffington Post)
• Schizophrenia And Cats (Baltimore Sun)

Humour

• What the Internet and Modern Medicine Really Cost Us (Gizmodo)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Fantasia 2012: Après Fukushima (Shomingekiblog)
• Claude Gagnon en compétition officielle (La Presse)
• Festival des films du monde: Petit guide du cinéphile (Le Devoir)
• Turbulences planétaires (Le Devoir)
• Continuum Renewed For Second Season (Huffington Post)
• Downton Abbey Season 3 Teaser: Maggie Smith Vs. Shirley MacLaine (Huffington Post)
• Copper: Everything You Need To Know About The Period Drama (Huffington Post)
• Claude Gagnon keeps his friends close (The Gazette)
• Pussy Riot says two members flee Russia (MSNBC)

Sciences & History

• La cage de la Corriveau retrouvée? (Le Devoir)
• Curiosity en approche finale de Mars (La Presse)
• NASA’s Curiosity captures awe-inspiring shot of Mount Sharp, uploads video of descent upon Mars (Engadget)
• Eyes on the Solar System (Link)
• Amateur archaeologist finds possible pyramids using Google Earth (Engadget)
• Mars’ Gale Crater in seamless 360 degrees (Engadget)
• Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2 (360 Cities)
• Mutant Butterflies Found After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster In Japan (Huffington Post)
• Curiosity survives brain transplant, prepares for first drive (Engadget)
• Curiosity landing video assembled from high-res images (Engadget)
• NASA maps out proposed travel plans for Curiosity, decides to head for the hills (Engadget)
• Curiosity rover warms up its laser with basaltic rock blast (Engadget)
• Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies at 82 (Engadget)
• DNA of girl from Denisova cave gives up genetic secrets (BBC)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Dropbox sends password change notification to some users (TUAW)
• Dropbox confirms user info was stolen, adds new security measures (Engadget)
• Rabais de 5% dans un restaurant pour les clients qui laissent leur téléphone cellulaire à l’entrée (MacQuebec)
• Vimeo adds advanced uploading features, custom thumbnails and Dropbox integration (Engadget)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM) & Montreal’s libraries

• Alain Fugère à la présidence (SFMM)
• Bibliothèques: l’arrondissement enclenche l’exercice de réflexion (La Voix Pop)

Another busy (and tiring) month, document.write(“”); but despite all I still gathered enough scraplinks to share after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Robotech Miniatures (ICv2)
• DiamondDigital Launching July 23rd (ICv2)
• New Sailor Moon Anime (ICv2)
• The Manga Market, Kids Titles, Replacing Shonen Jump (ICv2)
• Viz’s Top New Manga; Digital Impacts (ICv2)
• Nostalgia: Mari Iijima 1984 Live Ai oboedeimasuka ???????? (YouTube)
• Montreal’s Fantasia Fest to Present Satoshi Kon Award (ANN)
• Kodansha’s First and Second Years: Interview with Middaugh and Shimizu (ICv2)
• Vertical Gets Gundam: Origin (ICv2)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• OS X Mountain Lion: Quick, Familiar, Cheap, And Drenched In iOS Goodness (TechCrunch)
• Apple sunsets a few 64-bit Macs with Mountain Lion, video drivers likely the culprit (Engadget)
• Apple updates iPhoto, fixes lingering Mobile Me issue (MacNN)
• Chrome for iOS: A quick hands-on look at Google’s mobile browser (TUAW)
• Get your Mac ready for Mountain Lion (Mac World)
• History Here app is perfect for summer travel (TUAW)
• iOS Olympics apps: which ones to try and which ones waste your time (Ars Technica)
• iPhoto auto-downloads expired MobileMe galleries (TUAW)
• La Presse lance la bible numérique des Jeux olympiques (La Presse)
• Make Your iPhone’s Camera Even Better With Phocus (MacGasm)
• Mountain Lion May Or May Not Launch July 25th With Scheduled Apple Store Overnight (Cult of Mac)
• New Retina iMacs Set for October Launch? (MacTrast)
• Next Issue brings its all-you-can-read magazine store to the iPad, plans start at $10 a month (Engadget)
• Production of Apple’s next iMac to begin this month for October launch (Apple Insider)
• Rumor has new iMac starting production this month (Electronista)
• Senator says Apple e-book suit could destroy publishing industry (Apple Insider)
• September launch pegged for Apple’s 13″ Retina MacBook Pro, new iMac (Apple Insider)
• Apple rate la cible (La Presse)
• OS X Mountain Lion sur clé USB (MacQuébec)
• Apple updates Aperture, iMovie, iPhoto (MacNN)
• How To Make A Bootable Disk Or USB Drive Of OS X Mountain Lion (Cult of Mac)
• Mountain Lion d’Apple en neuf désagréments (La Presse)

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• Le nouveau Mountain Lion d’Apple en 10 points (La Presse)
• Mountain Lion 101: Mail VIPs (TUAW)
• Get Save As back on Mountain Lion’s File menu easily and without hacks (TUAW)
• Rumor has combined iPhone 5-iPad mini event September 12th (iPodNN)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• At the library, middle-aged women turn 50 shades of red (The Gazette)
• Austrian city builds public library with nothing but QR codes, NFC and stickers (Engadget)
• Google lance sa librairie numérique en France (La Presse)
• La biblio mobile rejoint les promeneurs aux abords du canal de Lachine (La Voix Pop)
• Redénicher des livres oubliés (Le Devoir)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Tourists get border surprise on trip home from Vancouver after trying to take ‘illegal’ Kinder eggs! (National Post)
• Fonte sans précédent de la calotte glaciaire du Groenland (La Presse)

Health, home & garden

• Ten weeds with unsung beauty (The Gazette)
• Le scarabée japonais fait des ravages dans les jardins (Radio-Canada)

Local News & National Politics

• Montreal gardens: Roger Latour’s field of dreams (The Gazette)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Anderson Cooper Comes Out- ‘The Fact Is, I’m Gay’ (Huffington Post)
• Luc Besson to Do Valerian (ICv2)
• Watchwords: Mark Abley, Columnist (The Gazette)
• Jean-Claude Mézières au Festival Littéraire Québec en toutes lettres (lien)
• 5000 films tombés dans le domaine public à télécharger gratuitement (Golem 13)
• Life of Pi – Official Trailer (HD) (YouTube)

Sciences & History

• iMusée: un musée de la micro-informatique dans Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (lien)
• Trois vagues d’immigration sont à l’origine de l’Amérique (La Presse)
• CERN confirms existence of new particle consistent with Higgs boson (Engadget)
• Orbiter Glitch Means NASA Might Not Hear Landing Signal from Mars Rover Curiosity (Popular Science)
• Sun unleashes earthward solar flare (Canada.com)
• 1812: une guerre en perspectives (La Presse)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• BBC Sport, London 2012: online video player to broadcast 2,500 hours of action (BBC)
• Bell brings free Wi-Fi to Tim Hortons in Canada (Electronista)
• Le droit à s’exprimer librement sur internet reconnu par l’ONU (La Presse)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM) & Montreal’s libraries

• Les Hiboux du Zoo Ecomuseum à Marie-Uguay (Facebook; pictures by Yours_Truly)

I just can’t believe that I am now fifty year-old! If I do feel the increased age, document.write(“”); it’s not really what’s kept me from blogging in the last months, but the fact that I commute nearly three hours each day to get to work, which leave me completely drained (and sometimes even depressed). I fear I won’t produce much as long as I will be stuck in this “commute-work-sleep” (or as we say in french “métro-boulot-dodo”) kind of groundhog-day loop. However, I had been still quietly reading news and stashing links to the most interesting stories for later use and posterity. I am still willing to share them with you after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• GKids to Release Ghibli’s From Up On Poppy Hill Film in N. America (ANN)
• Viz Launching Anime Channel (ICv2)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• iBook Lessons: Style sheets (TUAW)
• iBook Lessons: Publishing costs (TUAW)
• New iMacs and Mac Pro’s Coming “Probably in 2013” (MacRumors)
• Dropbox updates iOS app to 1.5, says goodbye to size limitations, hello to automatic uploads (Engadget)
• Getting ready for Mountain Lion: Clean up your Mac (TUAW)
• Hands on: Apple’s new Airport Express (Electronista)
• How did Ski Champion do? Download numbers (Games Brief)
• How To: Use iCloud’s Hidden ‘Drop Box’ Feature To Sync Files Across Your Macs (MacTrast)
• How-To Replace MobileMe Features That Apple Discontinued In iCloud (Cult of Mac)
• iBook Lessons: The absolute beginner (TUAW)
• iMac Update Might Be Coming Sooner Rather Than Later (Mac Rumors)
• iCassolator: une application bien de son temps (MacQuébec)
• Résumé du keynote de la WWDC 2012 (MacQuébec)
• Transit: indispensable pour les usagers du transport en commun (MacQuébec)
• MacQuébec » VTélé lance son application iOS (MacQuébec)
• More part numbers back Apple upgrading most Macs (Electronista)
• New Bento 4 for iPad adds design tools for customizing database solutions (TUAW)
• NYT: Office for iPad is still on (Engadget)
• The end of MobileMe is nigh, time to move on or move out (Engadget)
• Rumor Roundup, Episode 9: ‘Coming soon’ (TUAW)
• Rumor: Apple’s 2012 iMac refresh won’t have Retina display (Apple Insider)
• WWDC 2012 keynote roundup (Engadget)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Barnes & Noble complains to DOJ about e-book fixing case (Electronista)
• Barack Obama: The Story (WSJ)
• Google brokers a deal with French publishers to immortalize out-of-print books (Engadget)
• Ray Bradbury Dies at 91 (ICv2)
• L’auteur de science fiction Ray Bradbury s’éteint à l’âge de 91 ans (Le Devoir)
• Le Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires du Québec (BANQ)
• Les acteurs du livre électronique commencent à analyser le comportement des lecteurs (Clubic)
• Quand le livre rare a la cote (Le Devoir – abonnement requis)
• Ray Bradbury dies at 91, our world is that much poorer (Engadget)
• Time, Inc. will sell its magazines on Apple’s Newsstand (TUAW)
• Your E-Book Is Reading You (WSJ)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Obama ends young migrant deportations (BBC)
• President Obama Says His Administration Won’t Deport Younger Illegal Immigrants (WSJ)

Humour

• Ben (2012/06/26) (image)
• Get Fuzzy (2012/06/14)

Media, Culture, & Society

• NeverSeconds blogger Martha Payne school dinner photo ban lifted (BBC)
• Joe Queenan on Spoiler Alerts (WSJ)
• Le numérique, locomotive du marché mondial des médias (Le Monde)
• Nikkatsu Hyakunen; Celebrating Nikkatsu’s Centennial Part 1: 1910 to 1950s & Part 2: 1960s to present (Spectacular Optical)
• Noah Wyle returns with aliens in Falling Skies (USA Today)
• Watchwords: Calling Jean Charest Hitler or Quebec students terrorists adds fuel to the fire (The Gazette)

Sciences & History

• China launches space mission with first woman astronaut (BBC)
• Particles point way for Nasa’s Voyager (BBC)
• Red dot becomes ‘oldest cave art’ (BBC)
• Remembering Alan Turing at 100 (Engadget)
• Scrap of European iron unearths 500-year-old Canadian mystery (The Gazette)
• Spanish cave paintings shown as oldest in the world (USA Today)
• Vénus passe devant le Soleil en Amérique (La Presse)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• 6 tricks for shooting photos worth sharing (USA Today)
• Adobe To Kill Mobile Flash Starting August 15 (Business Insider)
• BBC rolls out streaming sports coverage to 3G networks (Engadget)
• Nest Learning Thermostat reportedly taken off Apple Store shelves (Apple Insider)

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My top three news of the week are: the death of Moebius, document.write(“”); Apple announcing new devices and apps, as well as the one-year anniversary of Japan’s tsunami. Of course, we must not forget the Republican primaries that keep polluting the news broadcast… As usual, you’ll find the rest of my weekly scraplinking after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• French Comic Artist-Illustrator Moebius Passes Away (ANN)
• Arrietty Film Now 4th Highest-Grossing Anime Film in U.S. (ANN)
• Library War: The Wings of Revolution Film’s Trailer Posted (ANN)
• New Lupin III TV Anime’s Staff, Cast, Title Revealed (ANN)
• Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Film’s New Promo Video Posted (ANN)
• Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters per Second Art Released on iPhone (ANN)
• Taniguchi’s The Summit of the Gods is finally getting an English-language release from Fanfare/Ponent Mon on May 15th! (Graphic Novel Reporter)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Skype 5.6 available, full-screen support in Lion (TUAW)
• Apple posts new iPad event video (TUAW/Apple)
• Apple dévoile son «nouvel iPad» (Cyberpresse)
• iPad 3 launched in San Francisco, now should Canadians buy one? (Canada.com)
• Apple et la famille SoLoMo (Cyberpresse)
• Apple: une initiative iWallet pour contrer Google Wallet? (Métro Montréal)
• Apple présente un nouvel iPad (Le Monde)
• La justice américaine soupçonne Apple et cinq éditeurs d’entente sur les prix du livre électronique (Le Monde)
• Apple’s New iPad: The Screen Is Better, and It’s Faster (Popular Science)
• Apple: New iPad Demand “Off the Charts,” Lines Forming Ahead of Friday Launch (Mac|Life)
• Apple teases there is ‘a lot to look forward to’ in 2012 (Apple Insider)
• iPhone is top-selling cellphone in Japan (TUAW)
• Digital Copy videos now available via iCloud (TUAW)
• Virgin Mobile Canada to get LTE ‘just in time for new iPad’ (Electronista)
• Apple: iPad preorders sell out, demand ‘off the charts’ (USA Today)
• Hollywood Studios Warm to Apple’s iCloud Effort (WSJ)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Scholastic enters the e-book fray with Storia and 1,000 children’s stories (Engadget)
• Scholastic releases iPad e-reader app for kids (TUAW)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Le Japon commémore le premier anniversaire de la catastrophe du 11 mars (Le Monde)
• Japan Marks One-Year Anniversary of March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami (WSJ)

Health, home & garden

• Family doctors often overlook concerns of middle-age, older men- survey (The Gazette)
• Royal Vic stops accepting patients for colonoscopies (The Gazette)
• Cinq laits qui ne connaissent pas la vache (Cyberpresse)
• Oreo fête ses 100 (Cyberpresse)

Humour

• Dilbert (2012/03/01)
• For Better or For Worse (2012/03/01)

Local News & National Politics

• Tarifs d’Hydro-Québec: le coût des nouveaux compteurs reste à venir (Métro Montréal)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Le catholicisme progresse en Afrique et en Asie, recule en Europe (Le Monde)
• Le 9e art perd un géant: Le bédéiste Jean Giraud, alias Moebius, s’est éteint (Le Devoir)
• L’hommage unanime du monde de la culture à Moebius (Le Monde)
• Mort du dessinateur Jean Giraud, alias Moebius (Le Monde)
• DVD Extra: ‘Game of Thrones’ first season (USA Today)

Sciences & History

• Pilleurs d’Egypte (Le Monde)
• Un million de dollars pour une pièce de monnaie de Judée du 1er siècle (Le Monde)
• Goce gravity data traces Moho boundary (BBC)
• Is the Six-Million-Dollar Man possible? (BBC)
• Meteorite chunk hits roof in Oslo, Norway (The Gazette)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Les blogues sont toujours plus nombreux (Cyberpresse)
• An interesting gadget: SpyderHUB, a USB-FireWire to eSATA Converter (Link)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM)

• Projet de convention collective (Le Canardo Pressé)

In the news this couple of weeks: in the US the tornado season gets an early and strong start, document.write(“”); an imminent Apple event will possibly announce a new iPad and aTV, and, frankly, the next series of Survivors should not be held on an island but on a cruise ship! You’ll find much more news right after the jump:
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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)

This week, document.write(“”); the news were dominated by Whitney Houston death and funeral and Apple quiet announcement of their new operating system, Mountain Lion, due next summer. Beside that it was a rather slim pick but I’ve nevertheless gathered a few links (after the jump):
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Kimagure Orange Road Manga to Be Released in English on Facebook, Kindle and iBooks store (ANN)
• Review: The Secret World of Arrietty (JoBlo)
• Top 25 Manga, Top 10 Shonen and Top 10 Shojo Properties for 2011 (ICv2)
• Top 10 Genre Properties for 2011 (ICv2)
• North American Stream List: Feb. 13-19 (ANN)
• 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Nominees Announced (ANN)
• Ghibli’s Arrietty Opens at #9 with US$6.4 Million (ANN)
• The “February Manga Movable Feast” is dedicated to Osamu Tezuka; the most interesting articles so far are: An Introduction to Osamu Tezuka, A Guide to English Language Editions of Tezuka’s Work and Tezuka In English (links) [ Quite useful; it is worth noting that there’s much more of Tezuka’s manga translated in French ]

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Mountain Lion to move Software Update to the Mac App Store (TUAW)
• Tim Cook discusses Mountain Lion with the Wall Street Journal (TUAW/WSJ)
• Mountain Lion drops support for several older Mac models (TUAW)
• Messages to replace iChat in OS X Mountain Lion (TUAW)
• iBookstore adds screenshots, promo codes, and more for publishers (TUAW)
• Visite d’OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) (MacQuébec)
• Apple brings iPad features to the Mac (The Gazette)
• Study: iPads improve Kindergarten literacy scores (TUAW)
• Use Messages to send files from Mac to iPhone (TUAW)
• 5 iOS Features OS X Mountain Lion Will Bring to the Mac (MacLife)
• Comparing Zinio, Kindle and Newsstand apps for iPad magazine reading (GigaOM)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Metamaus, un livre pour en chasser un autre (Le Devoir)
• Religion for Everyone (WSJ)
• Book Review: Frank Reade (WSJ)
• Bibliothèque Marie-Uguay (Espace B)

Humour

• Unshelved (2012/02/14)

Local News & National Politics

• Une chanson de Piaf censurée au Québec (Métro Montréal)
• Chanson de Piaf censurée: l’enseignant blâmé (Metro Montreal)
• 10 raisons pour censurer l’Hymne à l’amour! (Metro Montreal)
• Canadian government is ‘muzzling its scientists’ (BBC)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Abraham Lincoln revampé (Fractale Framboise)
• Digital tools ‘to save languages’ (BBC)
• The Mistakes ‘Downton Abbey’ (And Other Shows) Should Avoid (Huffington Post)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• VLC 2.0 first look: Video player app features new single-window UI and robust media support (TUAW)
• VLC 2.0 now available, offering faster decoding, a refreshed UI and experimental Blu-ray support (Engadget)
• Tablet computers the new electronic babysitter (The Gazette)

White-collar union stuff (SFMM)

• Échec de la conciliation portant sur l’ajustement des échelons (Fonctionnaire Express)
• Francine Bouliane et Josée Lacroix élues au comité exécutif! (SFMM)
• Élection complémentaire pour un Poste de vice-président (SFMM)
• Info sur Fin des banques de congés pour les auxiliaires (Le Canardo Pressé)
• Nouvelle description de tâches pour les aides-bibliothécaires (Le Canardo Pressé)

Another busy week, document.write(“”); but there is no news bits that particularly stand out. There are nevertheless plenty of worthy news and here are my suggestion of links (after the jump):
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• “Tatsumi”: le Japon à travers les yeux d’un mangaka (Le Monde)
• “Hanezu”: les desseins animistes de Naomi Kawase (Le Monde)
• Eric Khoo: “Retrouver le monochrome des vieux mangas” (Le Monde)
• 14-Year-Old Osamu Tezuka’s Early Manga Sketches Printed for 1st Time (ANN)
• North American Stream List: Jan. 30-Feb. 5 (ANN)
• Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘The Secret World of Arrietty’: First Clip Released (MovieFone)
• Top 300 Graphic Novels Actual: January 2012 (ICv2)
• Making the Digital Jump With Viz Manga (ANN)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Apple revoit le contrat d’iBooks Author (MacQuebec)
• iBooks Author update clarifies EULA terms on sales (iPod News)
• Apple stock price surpasses $500 for first time (BBC)
• 5 iPad games your cat will love (USA Today)
• Diesel Sweeties turns iBooks Author experiment into successful Kickstarter (TUAW)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• La baisse du pouvoir d’achat affecte durablement la vente des livres en France (Le Monde)
• Digital Comics Triple in 2011 (ICv2)
• Les Chevaliers d’Émeraude: l’auteure poursuit son éditeur (Cyberpresse)
• Newsstand Mag Sales Tank in 2nd Half of 2011 (ICv2)
• Le succès fulgurant de «Chroniques de Jérusalem» (Metro Montreal)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• Doit-on craindre l’«électrosmog»? (Cyberpresse)
• Vague d’indignation après le double veto à l’ONU sur la Syrie (Le Monde)
• Le bilan du froid s’alourdit avec plus de 600 victimes en Europe (Le Monde)
• Japan economy contracts amid strong yen and Thai floods (BBC)

Health, home & garden

• 10 ways to evade Alzheimer’s (The Gazette)
• Des patates violettes pour lutter contre l’hypertension (Cyberpresse)
• Les boissons à base de graines de lin pour remplacer le lait (Cyberpresse)
• High calorie intake linked to mild memory loss in elderly (USA Today)

Humour

• Unshelved (2012/02/13)

Local News & National Politics

• SFMM: L’élection complémentaire suit son cours (link)
• L’histoire de Montréal en un seul clic (Metro Montreal)
• Qu’est-ce qui définit Montréal? (Metro Montreal)
• Bergeron veut régler les problèmes de cohésion de Montréal (Metro Montreal)
• No one-size-fits-all solution to borough financing: Applebaum (The Gazette)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Super Bowl Ads 2012: Check out the best commercials (The Gazette)
• Dossier: Oscar 2012 (Cyberpresse)
• La fin du monde, les complots et les journalistes (Le Monde)
• Theodore Dalrymple on the Secret Appeal of Downton Abbey (WSJ)
• New trailer for Game of Thrones season 2 amps up the anticipation (JoBlo)
• ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel: Harrison Ford Reportedly In ‘Early Talks’ (MovieFone)
• When did the middle finger become offensive? (BBC)
• Le Huffington Post Québec est maintenant en ligne (Cyberpresse)
• Kirkman Sued By Longtime Collaborator and Kirkman Responds to Suit (ICv2)
• “S’écrire pimente la relation et peut lui apporter un nouveau souffle” (Le Monde)
• Irremplaçables lettres d’amour (Le Monde)
• La chanteuse Whitney Houston meurt à l’âge de 48 ans (Le Devoir)
• Mort de Whitney Houston: Céline Dion dénonce Hollywood (Cyberpresse)
• Mort de Whitney Houston, retour en vidéos sur la carrière de la star (Le Monde)
• ‘The Walking Dead’ kills in the ratings (USA Today)
• ‘The Artist’ wins best picture at BAFTAs (USA Today)
• GKIDS Animation Studio Hopes to Win an Oscar (WSJ)

Sciences & History

• La fin du monde aura bien lieu, mais pas tout de suite (Le Monde)
• ExoMars co-operation between Nasa and Esa near collapse (BBC)
• America and Eurasia ‘to meet at north pole’ (BBC)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• 2012: The year websites optimize for tablets (GigaOM)
• La vidéo à la demande dit merci au FBI ? (Le Monde)
• LinkedIn double son chiffre d’affaires (Le Monde)
• Téléchargement: fermeture du site BTjunkie (Le Monde)
• MIT launches free online ‘fully automated’ course (BBC)
• VLC hits version 2.0: brings presents to all the platforms (Engadget)

I had such a busy couple of weeks that I skipped a week again (too bad for the “weekly” part of the press review). The news that were dominating the press lately were mostly Apple iBooks textbooks announcement, document.write(“”); Obama’s State of the Union (Huffington Post, NYT), the Academy Awards nominations, and the U.S. elections & Republicans Primary (Cyberpresse, The Gazette). Finaly, don’t forget that today is Groundhog Day (Cyberpresse, The Gazette). There were a few other interesting stories for which you will find links after the jump:
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Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Furyo: Club manga des jeunes de la CSMB (Lien)
• North American Stream List: January 16-23 (ANN)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Apple unveils digital textbook service iBooks 2 (The Gazettte)
• Apple profit doubles in its first quarter (USA Today)
• Using iBooks Author to produce a comic (TUAW)
• iBooks Author owns your format, not your content (TUAW)
• iBooks Author: An ebook publisher looks at Apple’s textbook creation app (TUAW)
• Apple posts video of education event (TUAW)
• What Wall Street is saying about Apple’s record quarter (GigaOM)
• Mac 101: Breathe new life into your Mac with a memory upgrade (GigaOM)
• Hands on with iBooks Author: The desktop publisher grows up (GigaOM)
• Comixology reigns over comics on the iPad (TUAW)
• iPad announcement anniversary: January 27, 2010 (TUAW)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Onze jours de prison pour des livres non retournés (Cyberpresse)
• Compte-rendu du 3e Hackathon Montréal Ouvert (Montreal Ouvert)
• France: Les livres épuisés du XXe siècle pourront être numérisés (Le Devoir)
• Polar: Offensive massive (Le Devoir)
• U.S. Librarians Rank Wandering Son, Bride’s Story in Teens’ Top 10 (ANN)
• The New York Public Library Helps You Turn 100-Year-Old Photographs Into 3-D GIFs (Popular Science)
• Le piratage informatique n’épargne pas la bande dessinée (Le Devoir)
• Sex in the Comics (Le Monde)
• Le domaine public, c’est à nous, et il a besoin de nous – si nous aimons Hemingway, Tolkien, Gabriel Roy et cie – avant le 14 février 2012 (Bibliomancienne)
• Le monde meilleur de la technologie selon Jonathan Franzen (Bibliomancienne)
• Ishmael [ While watching the show “Booked for Japan” last week on NHK, I heard the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto saying Ishmael was his favourite book so I decided to put it on my “to read” list ] (links)
• Angoulême récompense le bédéiste québécois Guy Delisle (Cyberpresse)
• Library Day in the Life Project (link)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• ‘A total lack of winter everywhere’ (The Gazette)
• Sondage: les patrons pessimistes pour 2012 (Metro Montreal)
• IMF warns of global recession if governments cut too deeply (USA Today)
• La NASA illustre le réchauffement climatique depuis 1880 (Le Monde)
• NASA Finds 2011 Ninth Warmest Year on Record (Link)

Health, home & garden

• Des chercheurs français affûtent une nouvelle arme contre la maladie d’Alzheimer (Le Monde)

Humour

• Unshelved (2012/01/30)

Local News & National Politics

• Compteurs «intelligents»: des ondes émises 1500 fois par jour (Cyberpresse)
• Le salaire du nouveau DG est «indécent», dénonce Vision Montréal (Cyberpresse)
• L’ombudsman de Montréal sur les médias sociaux (Metro Montreal)
• Montréal et ses cols blancs en litige sur l’équité salariale (Metro Montreal)
• Financement des arrondissements: discorde à l’hôtel de ville (Cyberpresse)
• Autre rebondissement dans l’affaire Kim Jong-deux (Metro Montreal)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Remstar distribuera Paul à Québec et un film sur Martha Adams (Cyberpresse)
• Dossier: Oscar 2012 (Cyberpresse)
• The Academy Awards Nominees (link)
• Golden Globes: Consécration pour Homeland (Le Monde)
• A few surprises, snubs among Oscar nominees (USA Today)
• Nagging in Marriage Is More Common Than Adultery But Can Also Lead to Divorce (WSJ)
• L’acteur Nicol Williamson est mort (Cyberpresse)
• ‘Chuck’ Series Finale: Fans Share Their Favorite Moments (Huffington Post)
• Game of Thrones Season 2 Trailer (ICv2)
• New Action-Packed Promo for The Walking Dead (ICv2)

Sciences & History

• Pointe-à-Callière ouvrira ses portes aux Étrusques (Metro Montreal)
• Solar storm’s effects to lash Earth until Wednesday (BBC)
• Oldest dinosaur nest site found (BBC)
• Quelle science pour les restes humains ? (Le Monde)
• Canadian black history neglected: author (The Gazette)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• TheOatmeal.com blacked out in protest of SOPA (NSFW) (link)
• Lois antipiratage: sous la pression, Washington recule (Cyberpresse)
• FBI Shuts Down Major ‘Piracy’ Site (ICv2)
• Vimeo unveils design revamp posing challenge to YouTube (BBC)
• Bcc Or Let Them See? The Etiquette Of The Blind Carbon Copy (Huffington Post)
• Le blogueur et le secret des sources (Le Monde)
• Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship (USA Today)
• Canada’s Internet among best in world (The Gazette)