International Cephalopod Appreciation Day

If it's on the 8th, why does the poster say the 10th?

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!

(Well, someone had to.)

I'm confused why does the graphic say 10 october if the holiday is on the 8 october?

PZ, you're 2 days ahead of yourself.

@ #2
Knock it off. I'm trying to sleep and it's hard when people keep shouting at you.

Does this mean Spongebob and Patrick need to throw Squidward a party?

But even if we start celebrating it two days early, we will be able to celebrate enough? I propose we celebrate all week. Get chocolate squidies for the kids! Wear funny hats and sweaters with extra arms! Hug every octopus you come across! Remind your friendly neighborhood cuttlefish that she/he is appreciated!

Should we all eat calamari or octopus that day?

I'll bring the calamari for the celbration.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

Yes, what better way to appreciate animals than to eat them! That little octopus animation is overloading my cute receptors.

I'm confused by the graphic as well. Is it on the 8th or 10th?!?!

If it's the 10th, it'll coincide nicely with my first wedding anniversary. Perhaps me and the misses will celebrate by making "the beast with eight appendages".

The Eighth is correct
hug a cuttlefish today
you won't regret it

Nobody here reads base 8?

Shouldn't the International Cephalopod event have eight days? Sort of like Hanukkah.

The hopping purple creature looks much more like a ghost out to eat Pac-Man than it does a cephalopod.

Today, the 8th, is my b-day!

Wow. I was born on Cephalopod Day.

I AM SPECIAL!!!!

;-)

Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Not quite cephalopod-related, but an interesting science tidbit from the L.A. Times:

1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Two Americans and a U.S.-based Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for discovering and developing a glowing jellyfish protein that revolutionized the ability to study disease and normal development in living organisms.

Roger Tsien of the University of California, San Diego, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University and Japan's Osamu Shimomura shared the prize for their for their work on green fluorescent protein, or GFP, first found in jellyfish, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Researchers worldwide now use GFP to track such processes as the development of brain cells, the growth of tumors and the spread of cancer cells. It has let them study nerve cell damage from Alzheimer's disease and see how insulin-producing beta cells arise in the pancreas of a growing embryo, for example.

Read the rest at: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-nobel9-2008oct09,0,2238575.s…

Andy

Never mind - while I was writing the above PZ made a main post about this. I should have expected that something like that would not get past him :) .

Back on topic: I had fun this morning with my science/biology-enthusiastic kids exploring cephalopod day. I'm looking forward to writing/drawing/building models when they get back from school later.

Andy

Philippe said:

Today, the 8th, is my b-day!
Wow. I was born on Cephalopod Day.
I AM SPECIAL!!!!
;-)
Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Damn, the 10th is my birthday. For a minute, I thought I was special...
:-(

Nobody here reads base 8?

Thread over.

Wait, it says "2008"...

Nobody here reads base 8?

Thread over.

Wait, it says "2008"...

Happy Cephaliday, PZ!!!

Happy Cephaliday, PZ!!!

@21 & 22

So, it's actually the year 3730...

wow...

cephalopodcast has updated the image to read 8 October 2008:
http://flickr.com/photos/cephalopodcast/2924779932/

There is this note at the link:

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone for pointing out I am an idiot and mixed up the date on the graphic. Fixed now more-or-less. Pardon while I wipe this embarrassment off my face.

Eight days?

Why so little? (I mean what about the poor nautili?)

I propose we celebrate from August 10 to October 8. 's only fair.

I wish I knew before-hand, I would have gotten Cthulu a present :(

How about changing the graphic (or more likely, changing out the graphic) to the right date, PZ? The linked site has done so.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

Is there something that we should be doing as a tradition on this day? Or haven't the traditions for Cephalopod Appreciation Day evolved as of yet?

At least it isn't "Talk Like a Cephalopod Day" as I wouldn't know how to do this.

Is there something that we should be doing as a tradition on this day? Or haven't the traditions for Cephalopod Appreciation Day evolved as of yet?

At least it isn't "Talk Like a Cephalopod Day" as I wouldn't know how to do this.

"Today, the 8th, is my b-day!

Wow. I was born on Cephalopod Day.

I AM SPECIAL!!!!

;-)"

Me too! ^5