I was going to write a full on Ceph­alo­pod­mas screed about this, but in the end it’s just way too cool on it’s own merit to war­rant that. Check it out; the Squidtiv­ity:

That’s one of the three wise squid, by the way.

It’s still a couple of months before this years ceph­alo­pod­mas, but already my hopes are raised that this may be the year the Great Cthulhu stirs from his ancient slum­ber to con­sume us all. See; he sends forth his min­ions from the depths to strike fear into the very hearts of men.

One thing I’m not clear on though; is it still an octopus? ;)

And you thought I’d forgotten!

Pre­dict­ably, you can check out the ceph­alo­pod­cast blog (or just click the link above) for links to all the nice people doing tenticular things by way of cel­eb­ra­tion. I just wish I had some­thing to share…

Well, I guess there’s always lolthulhu; I could link to that? No? OK, never mind — for­get I said anything.

Utter genius.

Linked from Ceph­alo­pod­cast. Oh, and don’t fol­low that link if human/​octopus hybrid action fig­ures are the sort of thing that might upset you.

PZ posts a pic­ture of a ceph­alo­pod every Fri­day and, given my obses­sion with the order, it’s a con­stant battle for me not just to mir­ror those posts every week, but I res­ist; after all, if people really want to see pic­tures of ceph­alo­pods every Fri­day, they prob­ably already read his site.

This week I just couldn’t res­ist though. Just look at him:

This might just be as cute as the ceph­alokit­ten. And I don’t say that lightly.

This is serious.

It’s abso­lutely crit­ical that some­body (any­body) who can knit sorts me out with one of these — you can take your pick as to which mar­ine invertibrate.

I’ll pay. Seriously.

Thanks to The Other 95% for the link.