Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber’d and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

I’m sure Alfred, Lord Tennyson was sick of looking at that damn “teledildonics” nonsense too. Although I suppose his would have been telegraph-controlled and steam-powered. Or perhaps that newfangled internal combustion.

I, for one, wlecome our new octopus overlords.

We just can’t get enough knitted cephalopods.

MAKE: Blog: Felted Squid

Oh, hey. This is the pattern to that knitted nautilus (sp?) we were admiring.

Knitty: Nautie

Nautie on Flickr – Photo Sharing!

Holy crap!

I, for one, welcome our new octopus overlords.

(via Wikipedia)

I don’t know whether we’ve discussed this squid blog already or not. I rather like the Angry Squid shirt.

Interesting. Didn’t know Hokusai did tentacle porn.

Tentacle rape – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yes, this is just an excuse to use the “cephalopods” tag. Note that the inclusion of tentacles in body length measurements of giant squid tends to result in disappointment, at least for me, regarding their actual overall size. Feel free to introduce mother jokes at will.

Giant squid goes on display – Natural History Museum

Ah, cladistics.

I spent a lot of time at an older version of this page. I think the university of Hawaii hosted it.