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November 24, 2006

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid in Parking Spot

I have no idea, either.

Tags: squid

Posted on November 24, 2006 at 3:55 PM • 13 Comments

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Anonymous • November 24, 2006 5:24 PM

Isn't it obvious? The squid is waiting for his friends to arrive for a tailgate party. Go Huskies!!

&rw • November 24, 2006 6:17 PM

If one follows the "mystery solved" link, there's an explanation:

"The photo is from the Japanese newswires. The squid was in the parking lot of a wholesale fish market somewhere in northern Tohoku Japan. The image was labeled “tohoku_shijou .jpeg��?, which means the ‘Tohoku [district] wholesale [fish] market’."

Steven • November 25, 2006 9:04 AM

You'd think it was entitled to a handicap spot.

another_bruce • November 25, 2006 10:38 AM

somebody put it there to reserve the space. this doesn't work in all instances, people like me will just park on top of it.

aeschylus • November 26, 2006 2:17 AM

Dude, where's my squid?

Rob Mayfield • November 26, 2006 3:09 PM

Some caution advised on work machines if you are following the "Mystery Solved" link. Theres a number of references to "Tentacle Sex" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentacle_sex (also possibly NSFW). "Odd" doesnt even begin to describe it ...

Anonymous • November 26, 2006 4:03 PM

@Rob M.

Caution also advised when using this link

http://www.schneier.com/blog/newcomments.html

The comments section on "Keyboards and Covert Channels" is turning into a real scum-magnet, attracting all the worst kinds of comment spam.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/11/...

Can the site admin take care of this, please?

Bruce Schneier • November 26, 2006 6:37 PM

"The comments section on 'Keyboards and Covert Channels' is turning into a real scum-magnet, attracting all the worst kinds of comment spam."

I know. I've been cleaning the spam out every day for over a week. I finally got fed up and turned off comments on that thread.

I don't like doing that -- sometimes people leave good comments on old threads -- but I didn't see any practical alternative.

Rich • November 27, 2006 11:06 AM

"I know. I've been cleaning the spam out every day for over a week. I finally got fed up and turned off comments on that thread."

There must be an interesting paper in "What blog topics attract the most spam". I wonder if it's the 'keyboard' or the 'covert' that's attracting it.

Still holding out against captchas?

altjira • November 27, 2006 8:04 PM

Askimet. http://akismet.com/

Very effective on my WordPress blog.

altjira • November 27, 2006 8:08 PM

Well, I spelled it wrong, but in my defense, so many other people must also do so that it was the first link from Google. Not even a suggested spelling correction.

bob • November 28, 2006 6:44 PM

@Rich
>Still holding out against captchas?

Already been cracked.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/...

antibozo • November 29, 2006 1:40 AM

bob> [captchas] Already been cracked.

Not sure what you mean. Just because someone can point a bunch of cheap labor at them that doesn't mean they won't dramatically reduce the amount of comment spam.

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