The week in review (2013-11-10)

The last two weeks were rather eventful: I felt quite poorly, 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...

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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