Press Review (2013-02-18)

A lot happened at home in the last couple of weeks (or so). Here's the highlights: at the end of January a pipe broke within a wall while I wasn't home and it went on for hours! I had to break the wall to see where the leak was. Luckily, it was the hot water so I just had to turn off the water from the heating tank to make it stop. No hot water for a few days and the plumber costed my a week's salary (at a hundred dollars per hour I realize that I should have become a plumber instead of an historian)! The next morning another main pipe broke on the street (this time up street; it was the third city water infrastructure failure within a couple of weeks) and the city had to cut water supply for a few hours. The cats caught another mouse in the house. My eighty-three years-old mother had a major surgery to repair an abdominal aortic aneurism, but all went well and she's recovering fine. Ten days ago we got another big snow storm (but only about ten centimetres this time). My cold is dragging on and tends to get worse on week-ends!

Even the news were eventful: they found the King Richard III under a parking lot, the Pope resigned, Obama delivered the State of the Union address, a meteorite crashed in Russia and much more (including some library humour) after the jump:


Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture

• U.K. plan to limit Japanese worries language teachers (The Japan Times)
• Why are Japanese cartoons a global hit? (MIT)
• Space Pirate Captain Harlock Remake's English Teaser Posted (ANN)
• Captain Harlock Sci-Fi Anime's Remake to Open This Fall (ANN)
• Captain Harlock's new trailer reminds us why he's the baddest BAMF in space (IO9)
• Minami Minegishi, Japanese Pop Star, Shaves Head As Penance For Dating (Huffington Post)
• Drawn & Quarterly Adds Shigeru Mizuki's Showa Manga (ANN)
• Ghost in the Shell's Oshii to Helm His 1st Live-Action English Film (ANN) [And it's done in Montreal!]
• Review of Kaoru Mori: Anything and Something HC (ICv2)
• Brigitte Lecordier: La voix de San Goku, c’est toujours elle (Le Monde)
• Viz's 2013 Lineup Includes New Shojo Beat and Shonen Sunday Series (ICv2)
• Ken Valvur, Q&A: A Japanese solution for made-in-Canada sake (ICv2)

Apple, apps and mobile devices news

• iBook Lessons: Advanced page flipping demo (TUAW)
• Free Office 2013 alternatives (CNET)
• iBook Lessons: Book Creator for iPad (TUAW)
• Apple adds Breakout Books to the iBookstore to spotlight the self-published (Engadget)
• Replacing Your Mac With An iPad: What Apps And Hardware You’ll Need (Cult of Mac)
• Surligner, annoter et signer des documents PDF sous iOS (MacQuebec)
• Kleverbeast: The WordPress of Mobile Apps? (Forbes)

Books, Digital Edition & Library

• U.S. Librarians Rank Stargazing Dog in Teens' Top 10 (A)
• Google to pay $82 million to support digital publishing in France (LA Times)
• Book Publishers Launch Bookish To Sell Books (ICv2)
• Macmillan settles up with DoJ, Apple now stands alone in e-book price fixing case (Engadget, paidContent, Apple Insider)
• Book at centre of space marine row back on sale (BBC)
• Bedbugs Shut Down Library (The Daily Beast)
• Oui, le livre peut sauver Virgin (Le Monde)
• Marmalades, une application qui réinvente le livre numérique (MacQuebec)
• Can Libraries Survive in an Era of Budget Cutbacks? (The Daily Beast)

Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics

• Pope Benedict XVI to resign citing poor health (BBC)
• Pope Benedict XVI's resignation explained (CNN)
• Obama's Full 2013 State of the Union Address: (Youtube)
• Global solar power capacity has doubled since 2010, while wind continues steady growth (The Verge)

Health, home & garden

• Important Study Of High Blood Pressure Medicine Retracted (Forbes) [Hey! That's the medicine I am taking!]

Humour

• Non Sequitur (2013-01-16)
• Zits (2013-02-02)
• Zits (2013-02-11)
And some library humour:

Local News & National Politics

• Le salaire moyen grimpe à 911$ par semaine au pays (La Presse)
• French-Canadians victims of ‘soft ethnocide,’ says report partly funded by PQ (The Globe and Mail) [Aren't we exaggerating a little here?]
• Un successeur québécois?: Le départ de Benoît XVI laisse la porte ouverte au cardinal Marc Ouellet (Le Devoir)

Media, Culture, & Society

• Les bouleversements à l'époque de 'Downton Abbey' (Radio-Canada)
• Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Brings 'Making of' TV Movie (ICv2)
• Scores assemble at atheist 'church' (BBC)
• George R.R. Martin Expands HBO Deal To Produce New Series (ICv2)
• Row blows up over ownership of 'space marine' term (BBC)
• Baftas: Argo wins best film award (BBC)
• Walking Dead Midseason Premiere Sets New Record (ICv2)
• Game of Thrones Season 3 Promo (ICv2)
• 'Zombie Alert' Also Aired In Michigan; Hacking Traced To Overseas Source (NPR)
• Liberté de la presse: Finlande en tête, Erythrée en bon dernier (Le Monde)
• Daniel Day-Lewis, Emmanuelle Riva et Ben Affleck récompensés aux Bafta (Le Monde)

Sciences & History

• Body found under parking lot is King Richard III, scientists prove (CNN)
• 105 millions d'euros pour restaurer Pompéi (Radio-Canada)
• UK 'can cope with solar superstorm' (BBC)
• World's longest cat Stewie dies at eight in Reno, Nevada (BBC)
• La chute d'une météorite a bien été fatale aux dinosaures (Le Monde)
• Le visage retrouvé d'Henri IV (Radio-Canada)
• Meteorite shower crashes into Russia (Engadget)
• Meteorite explosion over Chelyabinsk injures hundreds (The Guardian)
• Estimates raised for nuclear-sized asteroid blast that hit Russia (NBC)
• Russia sends clean-up team to meteorite-hit Urals (BBC)

Technology, Gadgets & Internet

• XBMC 12 Frodo launches in finished form with support for Android, live TV (Engadget)
• Get a USB 3.0 hub plus Gigabit Ethernet with Kanex's DualRole (TUAW)
• Dropbox Adds Photo Albums, Obviates Picasa, Challenges Photo Stream (Cult of Mac)
• PayPal offers preview of much-needed site redesign, finally enters Web 2.0 (Engadget)

Union stuff & Montreal's libraries

• Avis de convocation: Assemblée extraordinaire Ville de Montréal (lien)

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