Friday Cephalopod: It does look rather evil-overlordish

It's lovely. However, those arm gestures could be a form of semaphore communication, spell-casting or expansive gesticulation to accompany some rhetoric. It does seem pretty intense about it. :-D

Well, evil-overlordish if "Evil Overlord" includes squeee-inducingly cute.

Semaphore, my ass. Clearly, this little one is doing the robot.

Testing, testing, sciblogs is eating my posts in moderation again....

That is SO Cthulhu - love it.

Gotta say - I love all the friday cephalopods. Keep it up, PZ, and thanks.

SEF - If YOU were plankton and realised that your chances of reaching adulthood withoug getting filtered and digested by one of several thousand different species was about 1 in a gazillion, you'd be pretty intense as well..

This one looks like one I saw at the tattoo parlor the other day that basically screamed "PZ". Imagine the same arm gestures in a rather ferocious-looking octopus with a banner that said "Death from Below". I've even tried looking online for it, but it was an original from that parlor :(

Sorry everyone, but I just had to caption this one. LOLctopus!

I note this morning that the new Lio comic Anthology will have a great title:

"Happiness is a Squishy Cephalopod"

http://astore.amazon.com/ucomicscom/detail/0740768492/104-8619763-49159…

I know its first on my Christmas list.

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

"LOLctopus" is rather cthuloidly unpronounceable. It could be a lolopod instead.

All hail His High Holiness of Octopi, Pope Defilippi.

Prepare to get really blessed.

I want one as a hat.

I, for one, welcome our new widdle cefwopod overlords. Yes I do yes I do!

Scientists Engineer 12-Headed Jellyfish. Article explains HOW they did it, but not WHY...

Now that perfectly matches the exterior paint of my car! I would love to have that little guy hanging from my rearview, possibly waving his arms to match my direction. He beats my boyfriend's Velocity Jesus, but not by much.

*Sigh* A girl can dream though.

I want one as a hat.

Are you sure about that?

Ia! Ia! Macrotritopus larva Fhtagn!

Oh no, its SQUIDKING!

Damn, you'd need a whole lot of those to make a good salad...i would think you could substitute them for jellyfish in a Vietnamese jellyfish salad.

SEF, Currently I have one team working on creating a giant Macrotritopus larva large enough to wear as a hat and another team working on a way to shink me small enough to wear one as a hat. The second team is of course a ruse. Once they perfect the shrinking technology I shall use it on them and feed the entire team to my new headgear.

"FEAW ME!!"

SEF wrote:

I want one as a hat.

Are you sure about that?

It worked out for Harry Potter, didn't it?

"Who's the little fear demon?"

But it's just a wee baby. awwwwww

Hmmmm....next-generation human/Dalek hybrid...now with TWO eyes!

Ex-TERMINATE!

That would make an excellent badge or sticker. Does PZ consider getting shirts for his blog or want to have a nifty little logo? Because it's both fearsome and cute, as others have said! :)

The body sac, or gut sac, or whatever, above the head and tentacles, reminds me disturbingly of Sauron's Eye from the LOTR films.

There's a place for cephalopod macros to rival cat macros, I'm sure. CephLOLopods.

http://www.craphound.com/images/hilliersquid.jpg