Somebody snarl at these people, quick
Category: Cephalopods • Weirdness
Posted on: August 26, 2007 12:25 PM, by PZ Myers
Doesn't this just ruin your day? A cephalopod is featured on Cute Overload. The comments will give you hyperglycemia.
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The poor widdle sad cephalopod is actually thinking, "Yes, yes, I look sad. Comfort me. Give me a hug. That's right. Closer.... Closer.... Just a little closer, please...."
Yoink!
Posted by: Zeno | August 26, 2007 12:31 PM
While I appreciate and share your luuuurve of science, I worry about your blind spot in the area of cephalopods. You rail against anti-intellectual and anti-science groups while warmly embracing the single biggest threat to mankind (excluding mankind itself).
In this nation of laws, is is your right to do this; to say these things and to feel this way. But it pains me to see it.
When the betentacled armies rise from the sea, armed with terrible weapons and seeking dominion over the land, I worry that I alone, fat with calamari, will be prepared to oppose them.
Posted by: Drew Habits | August 26, 2007 12:41 PM
Mr. Habits,
You seem to have missed the possibility that the good Dr. Myers is in fact a fifth columnist for the betentacled masses.
Posted by: Sili | August 26, 2007 12:43 PM
Why PZ, I do believe you're jealous of a little cuttlefish. I'm sure if they posted your picture on CO - probably in the Pocket Pets section - everyone woud wuv you, too.
Posted by: Dawn O'Day | August 26, 2007 12:44 PM
That's hysterical.
So sad. Needs a nice hug.
AAAAARGH! The pain! Can't breathe...
Posted by: Steve_C | August 26, 2007 12:46 PM
Long I have pondered the alluring images of cute overload, and the alien geometry of their website. Always I have known the glowing eyes of their kittens and ducks concealed an alliance with foul and secret powers which man must not comprehend. Now they show their hand for the world to see ...
Posted by: llewelly | August 26, 2007 12:50 PM
It's impressive how humans are capable of interpretating the eyes of a cephalopod. Saddness? Cephalopoda tend to communicate more through skin colour changes than through postural language. Humans, obviously, tend to comunicate more through the latter way than the earlier.
Posted by: Dídac | August 26, 2007 1:38 PM
Where is your Heart? On a side note, I thought you'd find this interesting. Cute Mr. Ted Haggard http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2630
Posted by: Chris | August 26, 2007 1:45 PM
((BARF))
WHAT eyelids?
Posted by: dorid | August 26, 2007 1:59 PM
I think it's just a misspelling. It should be Cute Overlord.
Posted by: Ole | August 26, 2007 2:07 PM
That's a crying shame to see a perfectly good cuttlefish go down like that. Freakin' thing sold out faster than U2.
Posted by: Dan | August 26, 2007 2:10 PM
Man, that really weirded me out. Then I realized I was misreading the header as "Cute Overlord".
Posted by: Mark Nutter | August 26, 2007 2:12 PM
The comments aren't all saccharine: salted amongst 'em are frequent musings regarding the edibility of the little critter - and some unfortunate references to it being a fish, or 'fishy thing'.
Posted by: Bee | August 26, 2007 2:14 PM
They need PZ to send them a "Squids 'n' Racks" picture.
Posted by: Mena | August 26, 2007 2:18 PM
Why, can't Overlords be cute? Wasn't it tribbles that brought klingons to their knees?
OTOH you can't have too many tribbles if a cuttle will cheer you up.
Posted by: Torbjörn Larsson, OM | August 26, 2007 3:42 PM
They need PZ to send them a "Squids 'n' Racks" picture.
I think the Japanese may have a corner on that market.
*runs!*
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | August 26, 2007 5:49 PM
No, that's over here:
http://cuteoverlord.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Owlmirror | August 26, 2007 10:15 PM
As to Cute or Sad:
How 'bout "None of the above."?
How 'bout "Delicious!"
Posted by: Elliott | August 26, 2007 11:22 PM
See that cute thing?It'll eat you face off.
Posted by: AntonGarou | August 27, 2007 1:02 AM
Hey! Don't be hatin' on the C.O.!
Seriously, dude. When it's three in the afternoon and the thought of another three hours at my desk makes me want to cut my throat with a machete, sometimes the romping kittens are all that preserve my will to live.
The comments are pretty unreadable, though.
Posted by: Greta Christina | August 27, 2007 3:53 AM
Cute Overload is good for one thing: making students who think they're thick and can never do well realise exactly what the real bottom of the barrel looks like.
Lepht
Posted by: Lepht | August 27, 2007 5:22 AM
A National Geographic clip showing a squid giving birth.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1214_051214_squid_video.html
There are lots of other cute videos there as well.
Posted by: bernarda | August 27, 2007 5:45 AM
I, for one, would welcome our new cute overlords.
Posted by: AaronInSanDiego | August 27, 2007 1:33 PM
Yum, is it tasty?
Posted by: Ken Mareld | August 27, 2007 1:56 PM
You gotta admit, it is extremely cute!
Posted by: Melissa G | August 27, 2007 3:20 PM