Lots happened on the domestic front during december. Mostly problems. It’s depressing how life can sometimes hounds you down. I’ll address that in a separate entry if I have the courage…
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In the news, document.write(“”); no big events worth reporting but nearly an hundred interesting bits of information that I gathered and shared with you after the jump:
Anime & Manga related, Japan, Popular Culture
- Buddha 2 Film’s Promo Video Highlights Ayumi Hamasaki’s Theme Song (ANN)
- Kitaro‘s Shigeru Mizuki Launches Autobiographical Essay Manga (ANN)
- Live-Action Kiki’s Delivery Service Film’s 1st Full Trailer Posted (ANN)
- ‘Robotech: Expeditionary Force Marines Sourcebook One’ coming in March (ICv2)
- Live Action ‘Attack on Titan’ Feature coming in 2015 (ICv2)
- ‘Time’ Magazine’s Best Comics of 2013 (ICv2)
- Full trailer for Haganai’s live action film is now live (Japanator)
- Digital Comics Round-up (ICv2)
- Top 300 Graphic Novels for November 2013 (ICv2)
- Restored ‘Ranma ½’ (ICv2)
- Viz 2014 Releases (ICv2)
Apple, apps and mobile devices news
- WSJ slams judge in Apple e-book trial (TUAW)
- Apple releases OS X Mavericks 10.9.1 to public (AppleTell)
- Best alternative mail apps for Mac: Airmail, Postbox, Inky, and more! (iMore)
- iCitizen Turns Your iPhone Into A Powerful Political Tool (Cult of Mac)
Books, Digital Edition & Libraries
- Best science fiction books of 2013 (The Guardian)
- La Norvège numérise l’ensemble de son patrimoine littéraire national (Le Devoir)
- Pourquoi les Anglo-saxons snobent-ils les livres français? (La Tribune)
- British Library uploads more than a million public domain images to Flickr (Wired)
- Amazon Can Take Away Your Digital Books and Movies Whenever It Wants (Gizmodo)
- Efforts To Ban Books On The Rise (NPR)
Economy, Environment & International/U.S. Politics
- Has Abenomics fixed Japan’s economic fortunes? (BBC)
- Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State (Tech Crunch)
Health, home & garden
- Dementia cases ‘set to treble worldwide’ by 2050 (BBC)
- A Nasty Fever Called Chikungunya Hits Close To Home (NPR)
- Why the 9-to-5 Day Is So Tough on Creative Workers (The Atlantic)
- The return of the female condom? (BBC)
- Angry scientist finds an uneducated internet comment [about vaccines] and delivers an epic response… (Quick Meme)
Humour
- Cthulhu chante Noël (Fractale-Framboise)



Local News & National Politics
- Noël panaché au Jardin botanique (Le Devoir)
- Postes Canada: Le courrier ne sera plus livré à domicile (Le Devoir)
- Cégep: Place à l’«histoire du Québec contemporain» (Le Devoir)
- Dany Laferrière élu à l’Académie française (Le Devoir)
- La charte va trop loin, selon la CSN (Le Devoir)
- Postes Canada: Un défi considérable à Montréal (Le Devoir)
- L’histoire de Montréal à travers les tombes (Métro)
- Un autobus 100% électrique à la STM (Métro)
- Hausse de 1,7% du loyer moyen à Montréal (Métro)
- Mourani «n’est plus indépendantiste» (Le Devoir)
- La STM hausse ses tarifs pour la nouvelle année (Huffington Post)
- La STM hausse ses tarifs (Métro)
- Robinson verra-t-il un jour ses millions? (Le Devoir)
- Le voile, quelques perspectives historiques (Histoire Engagée)
Media, Culture, Entertainment & Society
- New ‘Terminator’ TV Series To Follow Movie Reboot (ICv2)
- Vast Number of Silent Films Lost to History (The Take Away)
- Machiavel, notre contemporain (Le Devoir)
- Joan Fontaine, star of ‘Suspicion’ and ‘Rebecca,’ dies at 96 (L.A. Times)
- Peter O’Toole, Star of ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ Is Dead at 81 (NYT)
- Peter O’Toole, Lawrence of Arabia star, dies aged 81 (BBC)
- ‘Game of Thrones’ Star is New Sarah Connor (ICv2)
- Animator Frederic Back, two-time Oscar winner, dies at 89 (L.A. Times)
Sciences & History
- Koala Bellowing Explained (Outside)
- How the penis lost its spikes (Nature)
- Mystery human species emerges from Denisovan genome (New Scientist)
- Researchers Say They Found Oldest Buddhist Shrine (The Epoch Time)
- New radiocarbon dating calibration curve developed (The Archaeology News Network)
- 9000 year old music and alcohol: a powerful mix (Past Horizons)
- Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life Billions of Years Ago (National Geographic)
- Buddha’s birthplace brings light to Nepal (Al Jazeera)
- Giant undersea cliff may hold clues to dinosaur-killing cosmic impact (NBC)
- China’s first moon rover lands… and starts rolling over the lunar surface (NBC)
- China’s Jade Rabbit Moon rover sends back first photos (BBC)
- The true value of China’s Jade Rabbit robot Moon mission (BBC)
- Ancient Chinese cat bones shake up domestication theory (The Guardian)
- Watch China’s Moon Lander Touch Down (Popular Science)
- The Chinese Rover’s First Moon Photos Are Here (Gizmodo)
- Gaia space telescope launches on mission to map the Milky Way (The Guardian)
- Les monstres de l’Antiquité s’exhibent à Rome (La Presse)
- Unlocking the scrolls of Herculaneum (BBC)
- 400,000-Year-Old Mitochondrial DNA Surprises Scientists (Archaeology)
- Roman Emperor Hadrian’s Villa Brought to Life with Gaming Software (Live Science)
- The Biggest Science Stories of 2013 (Gizmodo)
- Italy’s ‘abandoned’ Riace Bronzes back on show in Calabria (BBC)
- Mystery early human revealed by DNA data (BBC)
- Le mystère du puits d’Entrains-sur-Nohain (Le Monde)
- Recapité: Le visage de Robespierre reconstitué (Le Monde)
- Alan Turing, Enigma Code-Breaker and Computer Pioneer, Wins Royal Pardon (NYT)
- Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing (BBC)
- Clues to Lost Prehistoric Code Discovered in Mesopotamia (Live Science)
- Prehistoric Female artists responsible for majority of cave paintings (A Blog About History)
Technology, Gadgets & Internet
- Les ampoules incandescentes bientôt interdites (Métro)
- Humans Make Up Less Than 40 Percent of the Internet’s Traffic (ABC)
- 15 Million Students Participate in Hour of Code (AllThingsD)
Union stuff & Montreal’s libraries
- Inauguration de la bibliothèque Marc-Favreau à Montréal (Radio-Canada)
- Vancouver Public Library Named Best In The World [Tied for first place with Montreal] (Huffington Post) [That’s hard to believe!]
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“À peine arrivé à l’université de Pise, Angelo s’attire les foudres du fils de son protecteur, Giovanni de Médicis. Ignorant des usages du monde, le jeune homme commet bévue sur bévue et manque même de déclencher une rixe entre cercles d’étudiants… Le soir même, des inconnus masqués embusqués dans une ruelle tentent de le poignarder !”








































