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Octopus slips out of aquarium tank, crawls across floor, escapes down pipe to ocean
, by Karin Brulliard, Washington Post. Happy World Octopus Day from Monterey Aquarium! Includes Giant Pacific Octopus video.
Apply October 10‐21 for the November Weekend Intensive Sentient Squid Scholarship to Writing the Other
Creepy Cannibals: Squid Have No Qualms About Eating Their Own Kind , By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer, LiveScience.com, via
Friday Squid Blogging at Schneier on Security
Staten Island Ferry Disaster Memorial Museum Artist Tricks Tourists With Elaborate Monument To Staten Island Ferry Octopus Attack
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Talking Squids back from the depths of time!
01 September 2014: Neptune’s Brood by Charles Stross
03 February 2012: Coconut-carrying octopus
14 June 2010: Help send Peter Watts to Aussiecon 2010
19 May 2010: Paper Nautilus
27 April 2010: Squidgate Update
27 April 2010: News article
21 October 2009: Talking Squids in Outer Space wishes Ursula K. Le Guin the happiest of birthdays!
Octopuses share “living ancestor” (BBC News, November 2008)Multi-tentacled octopi . (August 2008)Translucent Sea Creatures at National Geographic . Courtesy of Biology in Science Fiction . (July 2008)“Never Forget your Squid Anatomy ,” from Carl Zimmer’s Science Tattoo Emporium (May 2008)
“Five Good Things About Meghan Sheedy ,” by A.M. Dellamonica, at Strange Horizons (April 2008)
Flying Spaghetti Monster Statue (March 2008)Jonathan Coulton: “I Crush Everything ,” “...about a self-loathing giant squid who has exiled himself away from the world, because he loves boats and doesn’t want to destroy any more of them.” [complete interview at Wired] (March 2008)
TED talks: David Gallo: Underwater Astonishments . Some visitors may find the YouTube version more flexible. (February 2008)
SFWA t-shirt: Squid Happens! To benefit the Emergency Medical Fund. (Fall 2007)
“In Search of Giant Squid ” comes to Seattle
Whale filmed, for the first time, eating giant squid
Cthulhu Origami Squidrides! (July 2007)
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