Friday Squid Blogging: Gurney Drive Hawker Center
The Gurney Drive Hawker Center is one of the best places to eat in Penang, Malaysia. They sell squid prepared many ways.
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Friday Squid Blogging: Archibald
Meet Archibald, a 15-foot-long stuffed squid who lives in New York. He even has a MySpace profile.
Friday Squid Blogging: Steganographic Squid
Seems that some squid can hide messages in their skin:
In the animal world, squid are masters of disguise. Pigmented skin cells enable them to camouflage themselves—almost instantaneously—from predators. Squid also produce polarized skin patterns by regulating the iridescence of their skin, possibly creating a “hidden communication channel”? visible only to animals that are sensitive to polarized light.
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Mäthger and Hanlon’s findings present the first anatomical evidence for a “hidden communication channel”? that can remain masked by typical camouflage patterns. Their results suggest that it might be possible for squid to send concealed polarized signals to one other while staying camouflaged to fish or mammalian predators, most of which do not have polarization vision.
My favorite security stories are from the natural world. Evolution results in some of the most interesting security countermeasures.
Friday Squid Blogging: "Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep"
A SciFi Channel movie, premiering tomorrow night.
Boy, does it look bad.
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Ice Cream
Squid ice cream and squid ink ice cream. Both Japanese, of course.
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Soap
It’s SquidSoap:
SquidSoap works by applying a small ink mark on a person’s hand when they press the pump to dispense the soap. The ink is designed to wash off after the hands are washed for about 15-20 seconds, which is the time recommended by most doctors.
Note the security angle:
Dirty hands are a leading cause of the spread of infection and food-borne illness. Whether it’s due to laziness or lack of education – our failure to wash our hands is costing the U.S. economy billions every year and causing thousands of unnecessary illnesses and deaths.
Never mind about terrorism. It’s dirty hands!
Friday Squid Blogging: Four Squid Cartoons
If you know of any other squid cartoons, post the links as comments—or e-mail them to me—and I will add them here.
EDITED TO ADD (9/2): Guy & Rodd, Off the Mark, Her! [Girl v. Pig], a New Yorker cartoon, Doc Rat, Schlock Mercenary, and a German cartoon.
EDITED TO ADD (9/4): Demolition Squid, Sausage Squid from Beaver and Steve,Creative Disease, and very funny one from The New Yorker caption contest. Also, nine cartoons from Dr. Fun; search for “squid.”
EDITED TO ADD (9/13): Penny Arcade.
Friday Squid Blogging: 13-foot Tentacle Found off Santa Cruz Coast
From KSBY:
A fisherman snags a rare catch in the Santa Barbara Channel, a tentacle belonging to a giant squid.
The 13-foot-long tentacle was found floating near Santa Cruz Island last week. Little is known about the species, it is only the fourth confirmed specimen ever found in Southern California.
“They are definitely present off our coast, they are probably not very common here and they probably live in deep water, this one here was caught near the Santa Cruz Basin, which is several thousand feet deep,” said Eric Hochberg, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Curator.
The tentacle likely surfaced after the rest of the squid was eaten by a whale.
Friday Squid Blogging: Dr. Fun's Giant Squid
EDITED TO ADD (8/12): Another Dr. Fun squid cartoon.
EDITED TOADD (8/12): and another.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.