Weekly Press Review (2011/12/09)

Busy couple of weeks both at work (a few co-workers were either off on vacation or on sick-leave, so we were all scrambling around; we caught a dvd thief!) and at home (trying to finish preparing the house for winter but, as usual, there's not enough hours in a day). I got my work schedule for winter and I am doing a little more hours than in fall so I am quite happy with it. A surprising revelation makes my life feels like a soap-opera (and that's all I can say). The gray weather makes me feels tired and depressed... Reading the news (even on a binge) does nothing to improve the mood... (See the news links after the jump)

Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• Vocaloïds: des chanteurs en boîte (Cyberpresse)
• Hatsune Miku: l'idole virtuelle et Paternité multiple (Cyberpresse)
• New Rurouni Kenshin Anime's Part I Promo Video Streamed (ANN)
• Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Film Image Published (ANN)
• Dark Horse Goes Digital Day and Date (ICv2)
• Bam! How comics teach science (Cosmic Log)
• Tokyo: le pays des takenokozoku (Cyberpresse)
• St. Seiya, Rose of Versailles, Yu-Gi-Oh! Designer Shingo Araki Passes Away (ANN)
• Tezuka's Hidamari no Ki Stage Play Cast (ANN)
• Shinkai's Hoshi o Ou Kodomo Licensed in North America (ANN)
• Sentai Lands Grave of the Fireflies (ICv2)
• More Live-Action Rurouni Kenshin Film Images Released (ANN)
• Drifting Life, St. Young Men, More Nominated at France's Angoulême (ANN)
• Les yakuzas, truands au cœur d’or (Métro Montréal)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• Microsoft Office Coming to iPad (Apple Gazette)
• BBC brings global iPlayer iPad app to Canada, one step closer to the US (Engadget) [the app is free but the service is unfortunately fee-based]
• Apple rumored to revamp MacBook Air lineup with 15-in. model in early 2012 (AppleInsider)
• Glif: Tripod Mount & Stand for iPhone 4 and 4S (Studio Neat link)
• Holiday Gift Guide: Cameras (TUAW)
• You're a good interactive app, 'Charlie Brown' (USA Today) [but really too expensive for me!]
• L'iPad révolutionne le livre de cuisine (Hotellerie-Restauration.fr)
• European antitrust regulators probe Apple's e-book deals (TUAW)
• Chromian Wars (Les Sketcheurs Cosmiques) [iTunes store link]
• Olloclip iPhone Lens Kit: Neat iPhone Add-On Gives Your Photography A Wider View [Review] (Cult of Mac)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• Mon Top 10 pour trouver des livres numériques en français (Numeriklivres)
• Les bibliothèques, plus populaires que jamais (Cyberpresse)
• Mes premières histoires (Cyberpresse)
• Dossier: Le livre électronique (Cyberpresse)
• Rapport du CALQ: La culture au temps du numérique (Le Devoir)
• Rethinking the Familiar Book Tour (WSJ)
• British Library digitizes 300 years worth of newspaper archives, brings 65 million articles online (Engadget)
• Comment écrirons-nous demain ? (Le Monde)
• Belzoni: A Pre-Digital Tomb Raider (Book Review) (WSJ)
• Dévoilement de la plateforme Pretnumerique.ca: le prêt de livres numériques bientôt possible dans 1 000 bibliothèques publiques québécoises! (CNW)
• Des livres numériques bientôt prêtés par les bibliothèques (OpenFile)
• CanLit sails into 2012 on high note (The Gazette)
• Des extraits de livres en collection à feuilleter en ligne sur Nelligan (BPM)
• Au sujet de pretnumerique.ca (Remolino)
• Louky Bersianik 1930-2011: La littérature féministe en deuil (Le Devoir)
• Des bandes dessinées pour tous (Cyberpresse)
• How Darcie Chan Became a Best-Selling Author (WSJ)
• How to convert text to an e-book (USA Today)
• Le Festival d'Angoulême justifie la nomination de Rabagliati en «jeunesse» (Le Devoir)
• Interactive ebooks take on fiction novels (GigaOm)

Economy, Environment & International Politics

• An uphill battle to save Quebec farm (The Gazette)
• Thanksgiving Sales Up 16% (ICv2)
• Harnessing desert sun to power Europe (BBC)
• ThinkEco Modlet (Popular Science)

Health, home & garden

• En sécurité, avec votre téléphone intelligent (Cyberpresse)
• Hypertension to affect more than a quarter of Canadians by 2013, says study (The Gazette)

Humour

• Unshelved (2011/12/05)
• Unshelved (2011/12/06)
• Une vidéo de Noël de la Royal navy fait sensation sur le web (Cyberpresse)

Local News & National Politics

• Hausses de tarifs à la STM: la CAM passe à 75,50$ (Métro Montréal)
• Recycling: Montreal municipalities still have a lot of work to do (The Gazette) [Recycling problem in Mtl? Oh yea! First, the Blue Collars are refusing to pick up the recycling at work so WE have to do it--even if it's not listed in our job description; and then they refused to pick up my recycling bin at home because its not full enough--making it overflow the following week! It's all quite frustrating]
• Will it be a white Christmas in Montreal? (The Gazette)
• Critics decry tax hike for Montreal property owners in new budget (The Gazette)
• The Montreal budget visualized (The Gazette)
• Hydro-Québec seeks 1.7% hike in rates for 2012 (The Gazette)
• Feds to revoke thousands of citizenships in historic sweep (The Gazette)
• Refonte du financement des arrondissements (Métro Montréal) [Règler les problèmes de financement pour 2013, année électorale? Quelle coincidance!]

Media, Culture, & Society

• 'The Walking Dead' Best Ever Basic Cable Original Drama in Adult Demographic (ICv2)
• Moore Talks 'Vendetta' Mask Selling to Protestors (ICv2)
• Ken Russell 1927-2011: Un diable au paradis (Le Devoir)
• Ken Russell, Women In Love director, dies at 84 (BBC)
• Is 'Pan Am' Canceled? ABC Says No (AOLtv)
• Retour de Pan Am: la confusion règne (Cyberpresse)
• New frontières for Fantasia 2012 (The Gazette)
• La fusion de RFI et France 24 définitivement entérinée à la mi-janvier (Le Monde)
• Pan Am Cast On Nipple-High Pants & Why You Should Give the Show Another Try (AOLtv)
• Listen to seven songs off the Dragon Tattoo soundtrack and watch 8-minute preview (Joblo)
• Downton Abbey, Season Two: Can a Costume Drama Keep Its Cool? (WSJ)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Will American Audiences See It? (WSJ)
• Le CRTC veut que le sous-titrage codé en français soit amélioré (Le Devoir) [En effet, le sous-titrage est plein d'erreurs ridicules et je suis sûr que ce ne serait pas difficile de faire mieux]
• The More Things on the Small Screen Change... (WSJ)
• Fashion, Rape Survival, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (WSJ)
• 'Tinker Tailor' plays a masterful game (USA Today)
• Our Own Worst Enemies (NYT)

Sciences & History

• NASA rover on its way to Mars (The Gazette)
• Dawn views Vesta in 3-D (USA Today)
• Mars rover Opportunity finds 'most powerful' water clue (BBC)
• Scientists to World: We're Going to Finally Clone that Woolly Mammoth We've Been Talking About (Popular Science)
• Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds (Popular Science)
• Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns (Popular Science)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• Canada lags in wireless broadband penetration (The Gazette)
• When a Facebook Rant Gets You Fired (WSJ)
• Study: many of us go online for no reason (USA Today)
• Facebook, Google Bugged by New 'Adware' Apps (WSJ)
• How safe is your Facebook profile (USA Today)