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Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squids on Exhibit at the Smithsonian
Starting September 27th: a 36-foot-long, 330-lb female and a 20-foot-long, 100-lb male.
Friday Squid Blogging: Talking Squids in Outer Space
An index of fiction.
The site was inspired by Margaret Atwood’s infamous comment that Oryx and Crake isn’t really science fiction, because science fiction is “talking squids in outer space.” This prompted a hunt for science fiction which actually did feature talking squids in outer space.
Friday Squid Blogging: Jumbo Squid Photo
Pretty. It was the National Geographic Photo of the Day on June 16th.
Friday Squid Blogging: Burning Squid
At the June Apogaea regional Burning Man event in Colorado, they burned a wooden/cloth giant squid. Before the burn, participants could crawl into the base of the body and turn a massive kaleidoscope with sun shining in the top. (Pictures of the squid and its demise. A picture from the inside.)
Friday Squid Blogging: Researching the Reproductive Habits of Giant Squids
I sure want to know more:
Giants have very strange sexual behaviour where the male has a metre-long muscular penis that he uses a bit like a nail gun and shoots cords of sperm under the skin of the female’s arms and she carries the sperm around with her until she is ready to lay her big jelly mass of a million eggs.
Wednesday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Dissection Live on the Web
Tomorrow, in Australia.
EDITED TO ADD (7/16): More news.
EDITED TO ADD (7/22): A final note:
…the poor museum volunteers, the hardy souls who showed the members of the public around, explained what was going to happen, and led them to their seats. Raise your glass to …
the super calamari giblet exhibition docents.
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Found off Santa Cruz Coast
It’s twenty-five feet long, with tentacles the size of human legs.
Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis.