May 06, 2004

• Are there pics? I'll only register at the NY Times if there are pics... and they better be good pics too!
• I can find you some pics.
• Nope...no (real) pictures: only one "artist's representation" cartoon of a squid and a diver. I do like the SquidFilter idea, though. We could give each other fish, and "throw" ink!
• Thanks tracicle! This one is good, even though it's not actually real. A fight between a giant squid and a giant whale would be awesome. My money's on the squid, cos they can hold extra weapons (like pointy ships) in their tentacles. Oh, and the filename in this pic is very misleading.
• Duckfilter is likely to be more popular, judging by recent posting habits.
• Fuckdilter.
• mmmmmm..... squid.... (drools)
• I once saw a Discovery Channel show on the giant squid. This marine biologist was showing us a giant squid that got caught in a fishing net. Apparently this male squid died while doing his male duties. The marine biologist kept squeezing sperm out of the Giant Squid Willy like it was a tube of toothpaste. To this day I can't brush my teeth.
• Wow, that is sexy.
• There have been attempts for years to capture a giant Architeuthis, to no avail. Scientists have captured the planktonic form off New Zealand, however, and are raising them out in a lab to study as they get older. The nature/science nerd is me is unspeakably excited. I can't wait to see one of the last unknown monsters on our planet. Plus I would like to eat one.
• Plus I would like to eat one. Word, levi, word.
• It's times like these that I wish I had registered under the name that I go by everywhere else... (ahem.)
• Oh, and in my vast research on the subject, I recall a researcher cooking up some giant squid. It wasn't very good; actually, it was almost inedible, because the ammonia content is so high.
• Oh (pt.2), here's an article about some guy importing "giant" Antarctic squid as food (not the same as the true giant squid, much smaller in fact), and they mention that it has a strong ammonia aftertaste.
• The article cited contains the best pun ever seen in American newswriting, fourth graf: "Architeuthis, they say, may not be so long in the tooth, and reports of its depth may be greatly exaggerated."
• Yarr, I hear thar be gold in its belly!
• reports of its depth may be greatly exaggerated Get me away from here, I'm dying! Too funny.
• Apparently this male squid died while doing his male duties. Attila the Hun. Nelson Rockefeller. Giant Squid. They have achieved what most of us can only dream about.
• *pages Dr Freud*
• It's funny this was posted, because my favorite book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea which I've just been trying to read again - but I can never get past page 87 because it's too scary.
• Ooh, it's 13 less than 100. *scared*
• Apparently this male squid died while doing his male duties. Delivering the male?
• But I can never get past page 87 because it's too scary. Have you tried closing your eyes through the scary bits? I find that it helps. Although I have to open them a weeee bit to check the page number.
• The Giant Squid Willy could make a marvelous name for a new member.
• The so-called Colossal Squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) supposedly grows to an even greater size than Architeuthis. The Smithsonian online exhibit In Search of Giant Squid has a great collection of squid links, most of which still work. Go crazy, squid fans. (Where are the squid fans of yesteryear?)
• Giant squids make the news in Australia and Madeira.
• Great article on hunting the giant squid here.
• Decomposing whale blubber mistaken for giant killer octopus [NY Times]
• Giant squidicide.