(iPhone 6, Camera360 app, 2014-10-24)



Les Bibliothèques de Montréal ont profité de la Semaine des bibliothèques publiques pour mettre en ligne la nouvelle version de leur catalogue “Nelligan”: Nelligan Découverte (aussi appelé le “Encore Discovery”, un logiciel produit par la compagnie américaine Innovative Interfaces Inc, la même compagnie qui a créé Millenium, le système de gestion de bibliothèques utilisé présentement par les bibliothèques de Montréal).
“À la bibliothèque pour enfant “La rose trémière” vous êtes accueillis et conseillés par Mikoshiba, un bibliothécaire binoclard célèbre pour son caractère bien trempé. Mais contrairement à ce qu'il peut laisser paraître, c'est un professionnel de premier ordre. Aujourd'hui encore, adultes comme enfants perdus dans leur vie viennent ç lui en espérant qu'il leur trouvera le livre salvateur.”

VIZ Media announced the release of All You Need is Kill, the latest manga by Takeshi Obata (Hikaru no go, Death Note, Bakuman), on November 4th, 2014. This oversized omnibus edition is rated ‘T+’ for Older Teens and will be available under the Shonen Jump Advanced imprint with a print MSRP of $14.99 U.S. / $16.99 CAN. [Read the full press releases]







When I was a kid I learned to make “Rice Krispies® squares” using a recipe written on the back of a cereal box. It's a sweet treat that was well appreciated in my family and my sister still makes them for the Holidays. Later, as a teenager, I was joking that it was a North American adaptation from asian cuisine (an idea that probably came from seeing the evil chinese spy Wen-Li eating his Rice Krispies® with chopsticks in the movie IXE-13 — see the trailer on Youtube).
I guess it was not such a far-fetched idea after all. When I heard that a restaurant in Montreal was offering Rice Krispies® sushi, I thought that someone else was in with the joke… Until I realized that Kellogg’s® had posted a Sushi Treats™ Recipe on their website! Okay, it's made of gummy-worm and fruit strips, but I still think it is rather funny and, in a way, it does make sense.
And it makes even more sense today. As usual, I was eating lunch while watching NHK World on my iPad. Today, it was the travel show / language course “Meet and Speak” lesson #27: Walking the streets of Asakusa (you can see it on Youtube). Near the end of the show (at 8:34), they visit the Nakamise shopping street where a vendor prepare Kaminari Okoshi, a square sweet made of toasted rice. Seeing this, I realized that, after all, “Rice Krispies® squares” were most probably an adaptation of this Japanese sweet. It is very similar (although my wife says that Okoshi is much harder to eat than Kellogg’s® version).