Canada begins world's largest seal hunt

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Canada seal hunt gets under way

Canada seal hunt gets under way 03/29/2005 05:41 PM
Fishermen in Canada begin what is expected to be one of the biggest seal-hunting seasons in decades.

Canada seal hunt draws protests

Canada seal hunt draws protests 04/13/2004 11:29 AM
Activists film hunters on Canada's largest seal cull for more than 50 years.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Canada embarks on
mass seal hunt

BBC NEWS | Americas | Canada embarks on
mass seal hunt 04/13/2004 07:30 AM
CANADA SET FOR LARGEST BABY SEAL HUNT IN HALF CENTURY .. politically correct

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Canada set for mass seal cull

Canada set for mass seal cull 04/11/2004 09:02 PM
Canada is about to begin its largest single seal hunt in 50 years, despite vehement animal rights protests.

Seal Clubbing 2005 kicked off in Canada

Seal Clubbing 2005 kicked off in Canada 03/30/2005 09:15 PM
Canada's seal hunt started yesterday and though I wondered if the numbers on the Protect Seals site were accurate, this somewhat gory and disturbing slideshow at Yahoo/AP news seems to support the high numbers of slaughter. There doesn't seem to be much you can do to stop seal clubbing in 2005, just boycotting Canadian seafood and calling congressfolks. Shame to see up to 300k seals killed for some fur coats -- seems so last century.

"One of the world's largest."

"One of the world's largest." 12/29/2004 03:31 AM

World's Second Largest WAP Gateway

World's Second Largest WAP Gateway 04/27/2004 03:08 AM
3G Apr 27 2004 7:21AM GMT

World's Largest Truck

World's Largest Truck 06/21/2004 10:31 AM

What's huge, slow, and capable of hauling up to 400 tons of bullshit? While my first response would probably be Slashdot, too, in this case we're describing the Liebherr T 282B truck, a 224 ton monster with a massive 3650-horsepower diesel engine. New Scientist has an interview with Liebherr R&D head Francis Bartleby in which he drops a load of tasty T 282B trivia, like the fact that the huge diesel engine actually generates electricity to power two electric drive motors, and the story about the time a driver of one of the big trucks accidentally crushed a normal-sized service truck and didn't even notice.
Read [NewScientist via Piqupaill e]

Hunt for the perpetrators begins

Hunt for the perpetrators begins 05/05/2004 03:24 PM
USA Today May 5 2004 7:56PM GMT

Confessions of the world's largest
Switcher?

Confessions of the world's largest
Switcher? 10/30/2003 12:35 AM
In writing for O'Reilly's MacDevCenter, Daniel Steinberg notes that Dr...

Confessions Of The World's Largest
Switcher

Confessions Of The World's Largest
Switcher 10/30/2003 12:35 AM
It's a shame that Apple no longer runs the "Switch" campaign on television. Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan would make an excellent spokesperson for moving to the Mac. "I'm Srinidhi Varadarajan and I build Supercomputers at Virginia Tech." By Daniel H. Steinberg (O'Reilly Network via MyAppleMenu)

Problems and Promise in the World's
Largest PKI

Problems and Promise in the World's
Largest PKI 02/19/2004 10:13 AM
Implementing a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) on any scale is a challenging, politically-charged task for an IT professional. Even though a working PKI is an important piece of a complete security package for an organization, the lack of interest, misunderstanding, laziness, and downright paranoia of the typical user population can turn a PKI effort into just another morass of documents for which the contractors have been paid and long ago moved on to some new revenue channel. Given the dismal success rate, it's difficult to imagine a successful PKI, not for hundreds or even thousands of users, but for millions. Yet, that seems to be what the Department of Defense (DoD) has accomplished in their Common Access Card (CAC) project - the new identification cards being issued to all US military personnel. To date, CAC PKI project has issued and manages more than six million digital certificates and corresponding smart cards. As someone who has implemented a PKI for a large, diverse organization, I can say that the IT professionals who worked to make the CAC project a success are entitled to pat themselves on the back, but it's also clear that a few problems remain.

World's Largest Book Created

World's Largest Book Created 12/16/2003 01:46 PM
Don't you just hate those books that are just a little too large to fit into your bookshelf? You have to put them on their side, or stick them somewhere else, just because a publisher decided to make the book too damn big. Well, now someone at MIT has made a book so big it's not likely to fit on any bookshelf. It probably won't fit on any coffee table, either. In fact, it's now been certified as the largest book ever created, weighing in at a somewhat stunning 133 pounds. Each of the 112 pages are five feet by seven feet. Apparently, the book costs $2,000 to make, and is being sold for $10,000 complete with a nice display easel to solve the bookshelf problem (they've already sold about two dozen). Money from the sale of the book will go to a charity that is building schools in Cambodia and Bhutan. A more cynical person might note that with all the trees that were needed to make such a book, they probably cleared a nice spot in the field for such schools. And, yes, the book, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom is available at Amazon (though, currently out of stock).

"Confessions of the World's Largest
Switcher"

"Confessions of the World's Largest
Switcher" 10/31/2003 11:45 AM

World's Largest Databases Ranked

World's Largest Databases Ranked 12/12/2003 09:19 AM
prostoalex writes "Winter Corp. has summarized its findings of the annual TopTen competition, where the world's largest and most hard-working (in terms of ...

Using Unicode to Power the World's
Largest Democracy

Using Unicode to Power the World's
Largest Democracy 08/06/2004 06:20 AM
A look at the movement to convert Indian's voter lists to Unicode.

World's largest yacht hits rocks

World's largest yacht hits rocks 09/17/2004 10:29 AM
The English-built Mirabella V yacht - believed to be the largest and most expensive in the world - runs aground.

Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught
(AP)

Officials: World's Largest Snake Caught
(AP) 12/29/2003 11:37 PM
AP - Indonesian villagers claim to have captured a python that is almost 49.21 feet long and weighs nearly 992.07 pounds, a local official said Monday.

World's largest computing grid goes live

World's largest computing grid goes live 09/06/2004 06:59 AM
PC Pro Sep 6 2004 11:28AM GMT

World's Largest Working Computing Grid

World's Largest Working Computing Grid 09/05/2004 01:06 PM
PhysOrg.com Sep 5 2004 5:15PM GMT

Philly plans world's largest mesh Wi-Fi
net

Philly plans world's largest mesh Wi-Fi
net 09/21/2004 12:45 PM
VENICE -- The idea sounds good on paper: Build a mesh network of wireless Wi-Fi base stations and let users roam around an entire city instead of providing limited connectivity in a handful of hot spots. But will it work? The City of Philadelphia hopes so.

Dubailand: world's largest themepark
EVAR

Dubailand: world's largest themepark
EVAR 06/22/2005 01:50 AM
Cory Doctorow: Dubai, a city that is practically a themepark already, is building the world's largest, most expensive, most luxurious themepark, EVAR, called "Dubailand" (what else?). You can tell from the website alone that this is going to be something: vacuous, content-free Flash site, with all the major info hidden behind PDFs and (ugh-ptui!) a Real video. Now notice the "worlds" of Dubailand: "Downtown," "Eco-Tourism," "Retail and Entertainment," "Attractions and Experience," "Sports and Outdoor" and "Themed Leisure and Vacation." Retail and Entertainment? Now that's some forthright theming! Check out the bumpf, especially the FAQs!

Retail & Entertainment World will provide a critical mass of retail facilities providing a wide variety of global brands but also unique boutiques and discount stores, all within the biggest mall in the world - the Mall of Arabia. Entertainment and dining facilities will complement the retail facilities through encouraging tourists to extend the length of their stay at Dubailand, thereby creating further opportunities for purchases....

How many people would be working at Dubailand when it is fully operational?
Dubailand will seek to employ around 300,000 working individuals by 2018 from the various projects in it.

How many visitors a day are you expecting when fully operational?
At peak operational capacity, we have forecast a footfall of some 200,000 visitors a day.

What kind of per capita spend is projected for visitors?
The rates will be an average of USD 100 per day per person not including hotel stay.

Has any study been done on the environmental impact of such a large project in almost virgin desert?
The masterplan has been based on a philosophy of maintaining as much as possible the environmental integrity of the land designated for Dubailand’s development.

How will you maintain the law and order of large crowds?
Dubailand will be coordinating with Dubai Police on relevant security issues.

Link (Thanks, Neal!)

World's largest yacht sets sail

World's largest yacht sets sail 05/30/2004 07:32 AM
The £30m Mirabella V yacht - believed to be the largest and most expensive in the world - leaves Portsmouth.

Town Boasts World's Largest Bratwurst
(AP)

Town Boasts World's Largest Bratwurst
(AP) 07/02/2004 09:41 AM
AP - Residents of Campbellsport, Wis., are going for a world record this weekend. They hope to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records with a bratwurst nearly 40 feet long.

World's largest plasma TV: Samsung's new
80-inch model

World's largest plasma TV: Samsung's new
80-inch model 01/09/2004 09:57 PM
We haven't actually seen one here at CES, but with their new 80-inch plasma TV, Samsung has edged out arch-rival LG once again in...

Hitachi to sponsor world's largest PC
gaming league

Hitachi to sponsor world's largest PC
gaming league 05/22/2004 12:43 PM
Philippine Daily Inquirer May 22 2004 4:33PM GMT

Taiwan's Acer vying to become the
world's third largest PC vendor (AFP)

Taiwan's Acer vying to become the
world's third largest PC vendor (AFP) 05/03/2004 08:06 AM
AFP - Acer Inc., Taiwan's leading personal computer maker, said it is vying to become the world's third largest seller of PCs in two to three years.

Philadelphia considering creating
world's largest WiFi hotspot

Philadelphia considering creating
world's largest WiFi hotspot 09/02/2004 04:06 AM
Philadelphia looks at creating a city-wide WiFi network. Would such a network chase off other broadband providers?

World's largest Linux migration gets
major boost

World's largest Linux migration gets
major boost 02/05/2005 08:59 PM
Deutsche Bahn, Germany's national railway, said today that it has successfully migrated all of its 55,000 Lotus Notes users to Linux.

Brits to demo world's largest computing
grid

Brits to demo world's largest computing
grid 09/03/2004 08:42 AM
Equivalent to 100,000 boy racer PCs

World's largest book unveiled in Seattle
(Reuters)

World's largest book unveiled in Seattle
(Reuters) 12/29/2003 11:41 PM
Reuters - How about a little light reading?

The world's largest computer party 'The
Gathering' is on

The world's largest computer party 'The
Gathering' is on 03/25/2005 08:36 AM
Norway Post Mar 25 2005 12:35PM GMT

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books

Questia - The World's Largest Online
Library of Books 09/15/2004 08:01 AM
Questia - The World's Largest Online Library of Books
http://www.questia.com/Index.j sp

Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.

Canada's largest design and technology
event goes cross Canada!

Canada's largest design and technology
event goes cross Canada! 09/16/2004 03:35 AM
FlashintheCan presents The 4 City Tour, a design & technolgy event in 4 cities;Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Vancouver [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]

"Of the world's 100 largest economic
entities, 51 are now corporations and 49
are countries (2000)"

"Of the world's 100 largest economic
entities, 51 are now corporations and 49
are countries (2000)" 06/11/2004 05:57 PM

Of the world's 100 largest economic
entities, 51 are now corporations and 49
are countries (2000)

Of the world's 100 largest economic
entities, 51 are now corporations and 49
are countries (2000) 06/11/2004 01:52 AM
"Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations and 49 are countries" .. economics

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World's largest ID theft felon faces 14
years' jail

World's largest ID theft felon faces 14
years' jail 09/15/2004 07:57 AM
Help desk technician pleads guilty to $50m scam

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London

World's Largest Internet Consultants
Open Office in London 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
WSI, worldwide leader and leading edge Internet Consulting and Education Company, is proud to announce the launch of a new Internet Consultant (IC) office to serve the South London area. [PRWEB Jan 27, 2005]

O'Reilly Network: Confessions of the
World's Largest Switcher [Oct. 29, 2003]

O'Reilly Network: Confessions of the
World's Largest Switcher [Oct. 29, 2003] 10/30/2003 08:15 PM
Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher .. O'Reilly MacOSX conference .. new Switch ad

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Grok Description matches for Canada begins world's largest seal hunt
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Inpro/Seal Expands Sealing System
Product Line for Powder and Bulk
Applications with Articulating Seal that
Handles Shaft Misalignment to Keep
Equipment Running Longer

Inpro/Seal Expands Sealing System
Product Line for Powder and Bulk
Applications with Articulating Seal that
Handles Shaft Misalignment to Keep
Equipment Running Longer 03/14/2005 04:11 PM
Inpro/Seal has introduced their Articulating Air Mizer™-, PS a sealing system developed to positively seal equipment where dry particulates, powders and bulk solids are handled, processed, packaged and stored. Once installed, the system helps contain powders, abrasives, liquids and toxic vapors. In addition, it handles extreme shaft misalignment and deflection, common in these kinds of applications to provide a seal that traditional methods simply cannot attain.A unique design feature uses a solid wall of air that functions as a barrier for contamination and works to retain product where it should be - in the equipment. The highest levels of performance are assured by virtue of an inherent non-contact design feature that avoids direct egress of the particulate material. [PRWEB Mar 2, 2005]

The Velvet Underground's White Light
White Heat

The Velvet Underground's White Light
White Heat 07/23/2004 09:36 AM
The Velvet Underground's White Light White Heat played on banjo, bass guitar, ruler, music box, violin, toy piano, electric guitar, accordion, squeezebox, euphonium, ukulele, kazoo, xylophone, pixiphone, uumskither, mbira, pod, delay, turntable and percussion.

Waiting on Wet Seal

Waiting on Wet Seal 05/21/2004 02:29 PM
The women's apparel retailer widens losses.

Wet Seal All Washed Up?

Wet Seal All Washed Up? 08/20/2004 02:10 PM
The retailer wallows in penny-stock pain.

Football: Chelsea seal second

Football: Chelsea seal second 05/08/2004 09:00 AM
Chelsea secure automatic Champions League qualification with a draw at Man Utd.

PeopleSoft, Wet Seal, Intel

PeopleSoft, Wet Seal, Intel 12/28/2004 11:11 PM
CBS Marketwatch Dec 29 2004 2:50AM GMT

White Light / White Heat

White Light / White Heat 07/23/2004 11:15 PM

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White men bad; white dogs worse

White men bad; white dogs worse 04/05/2005 09:24 AM

We spent the weekend in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with an anthropologist friend who has two 3-year-old bitches (Lab and Husky) and 4 acres of land on which Alex and Sammy could play with them.  One of the nice things about colleges located in areas where real estate is cheap is that the professors live close to the campus and are available to students for informal dinners and shared extracurricular activities.  Thus over the weekend we encountered a few other Gettysburg College professors.  I asked one of them whether faculty could bring their dogs to work.  She replied "The college's Affirmative Action lawyer, before she left, made up a lot of new rules.  One of them was that junior and senior faculty could not sleep together.  Another was to ban dogs in the buildings."

This is a good measure of how desperate PhDs are for jobs as college professors.  The college pays lower salaries, to people of the same age, as the public high school down the street.  The high school teachers were able to go to work at age 22 without suffering through a long period of starvation wages as graduate assistants.  The high school teachers are union members who ever have to worry about losing their job, compared to the college professors who live for 7 years in fear of being tossed out as a middle-aged has-been ("denied tenure" is the polite term for this event).  And now these poor souls are expected to get through their day without a dog at their side and without the possibility of an interlude with a more senior professor.

[Note to parents:  if you want to know why tuition prices have risen so fast, consider that a very small liberal arts school was paying a full-time lawyer to work on affirmative action; Walmart has a "Chief Diversity Officer" but they had $billions in revenue over which to spread the cost.]

Cricket: England seal record win

Cricket: England seal record win 12/22/2004 01:03 AM
England complete a seven-wicket win in the opener against South Africa to claim a record eighth straight win.

Battling England seal series

Battling England seal series 08/16/2004 12:03 PM
England wrap up a series win over the West Indies with a seven-wicket third Test victory.

Seal wears headphones for science

Seal wears headphones for science 10/31/2003 02:43 AM
iafrica.com Oct 31 2003 1:57AM ET

Football: Celtic seal Scottish Cup

Football: Celtic seal Scottish Cup 05/22/2004 11:19 AM
Henrik Larsson completes a fairytale ending to his Celtic career, scoring twice as his side lift the Scottish Cup.

Paro, the Therapeutic Robot Seal

Paro, the Therapeutic Robot Seal 12/02/2003 12:25 AM
Meet Paro, the therapeutic robot seal. Isn't Paro the cutest little thing you ever saw? Researchers wnat to make Paro, the little white seal pup robot, be the world's greatest therapeutic robot for the elderly. Paro will likely lower stress levels and gets the seal of approval from docs around the world, just imagine what warm fun they would be cuddled in your lap purrring and cooing. Believe it or not, Paro, even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the most therapeutic robot. That makes me feel so good inside.

MSP backing Scottish seal cull

MSP backing Scottish seal cull 04/18/2004 04:39 AM
A senior Labour MSP has called for more research into seal numbers and said we should not be afraid of culling the animals if necessary

DoCoMo and Motorola seal 3G deal

DoCoMo and Motorola seal 3G deal 08/27/2004 01:26 PM
Japanese mobile phone operator DoCoMo and Motorola announce plans to jointly develop third-generation (3G) handsets.

Cost Cutting Boosts Wet Seal

Cost Cutting Boosts Wet Seal 12/29/2004 02:32 PM
The flailing specialty apparel retailer will close 150 stores.

Clip-n-Seal Design Contest

Clip-n-Seal Design Contest 12/22/2004 01:06 AM
To encourage creative uses of their rod and clamp closure device, Clip-n-Seal is collaborating with ID Fuel on a design contest. Contest participants are encouraged to design a new product using the Clip-n-Seal in an interesting, unusual or thought-proving way. [PRWEB Dec 20, 2004]

African leaders seal Burundi deal

African leaders seal Burundi deal 08/18/2004 07:01 PM
A peace deal for Burundi's Hutus and Tutsis is backed by foreign powers, who brand Hutu rebels 'terrorists'.

Nine Vendors Earn Liberty Alliance Seal

Nine Vendors Earn Liberty Alliance Seal 12/10/2003 11:32 AM
Ericsson, Nokia and Sun are among the first to meet the group's ID management standards.

VeriSign unveils flash new site seal

VeriSign unveils flash new site seal 11/04/2003 02:30 PM
Mark of Trust marketing ploy

Oracle judge refuses to seal secrets

Oracle judge refuses to seal secrets 04/19/2004 05:50 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 19 2004 9:43AM GMT

Syria agrees to seal Iraqi border

Syria agrees to seal Iraqi border 07/11/2004 03:55 PM
Iraq and Syria agree to set up a force to stop fighters crossing their joint border into Iraq.

VeriSign refreshes Trust mark seal

VeriSign refreshes Trust mark seal 11/05/2003 08:38 AM
Computer Weekly Nov 5 2003 8:26AM ET

Silicone sponge gaskets compress to seal

Silicone sponge gaskets compress to seal 02/16/2004 05:26 AM
Electronics Talk Feb 16 2004 9:31AM GMT

LeanWRITE: The Power of the Blogosphere
- The SEAL Trackers

LeanWRITE: The Power of the Blogosphere
- The SEAL Trackers 09/18/2004 02:06 AM
LeanWRITE: The Power of the Blogosphere - The SEAL Trackers .. issued a correction .. John, ex-Democrat .. LeanWRITE .. here

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Quattrone asks court to seal letters

Quattrone asks court to seal letters 09/14/2004 08:57 AM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 14 2004 1:01PM GMT

After the Bell-Wet Seal tumbles, Google
slips

After the Bell-Wet Seal tumbles, Google
slips 08/19/2004 05:02 PM
Reuters Aug 19 2004 9:54PM GMT

Canada begins world's largest seal hunt

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