How could I forget the big lady at the Natural History Museum? We also got to meet Archy.
Cute, isn’t she? She was also impressive in person—that’s one big squid.
Charity and art come together in a project to create structures out of canned food, which are then donated to food banks.
I fear I don’t have a big enough supply of canned food to pull this off at my house, though, and I don’t think we have the space, either.
It’s April (not anymore—it’s September as I repost this), it’s Minnesota, and it’s snowing here (not yet, but soon enough). On days like this (who am I fooling? Every day!), my thoughts turn to spicy, garlicky delicacies and warm, sunny days on a lovely tropical reef—it’s a squiddy day, in other words, and I’ve got a double-dose of squidblogging on this Friday afternoon, with one article on the vampire squid, Vampyroteuthis infernalis, and this one, on squid evolution and cephalopod Hox genes.
Since Friday’s cephalopod was a repeat (sorry, it’s such a lovely picture that it caught my eye again), here’s another to compensate.
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
Oh, boy…Boingboing mentions something squid-related and everyone sends me email. Should I mention that I brought up Squid Soap back in August? (Hah! That Doctorow fellow thinks he’s so cutting edge. Poseur.) However, Craig Clarke just sent me some information on a holy cruciform-shaped scrub brush, and it seems to me that we have to get these two products together.
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If you’re going to wash away the sins of the world, you ought to do it with squid soap, I think.
For a rather different kind of squid, here’s a pretty image. There’s also a mammal in the picture, which I understand some people might find not quite safe for work, so don’t click through unless you can handle viewing an exposed superficial epithelium.
Whoa…watch this phenomenal video of the Vampire Squid. They’ve caught it feeding and using a few sneaky tricks to escape predators.
