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. New graphics featured here.
cephalopodcast.com/octopusday
October 8, 2008 marks the 2nd Annual (Unofficial*) International Cephalopod Appreciation and Awareness Day (UICAAD), also referred to by some as Squid Day or Day of the Octopus.
- There are over 700 species of cephalopods, which include animals like the nautilus, cuttlefish, octopus, and squid.
- The original idea of celebrating cephalopod diversity started on The Octopus and News Magazine Web site (tonmo.com) back in 2007.
- What better day to celebrate Octopus and Squid then on OCTOber 8, the eighth day of the 10th month of the year? Octopus have eight arms and squid and cuttlefish have eight arms and two tentacles, for a total of 10 appendages.
Top 10 Things You Can Do on Cephalopod Appreciation Day
- Make a Cephalopod
- hansigurumi, home of peculiar knitted cephalopods and other original designs
- Papercraft Flying Squid
- Wear a Cephalopod
- Buy a plush squid hat
- Make a quick squid costume using office supplies
- Taste a Cephalopod
- While still alive!
- Looks like calamari, tastes like hotdogs
- Watch a Cephalopod
- National Zoo’s Octopus Cam
- Archive webcast from colossal squid dissection
- Get a Cephalopod Tattoo
- Find a Fossil Cephalopod
- TONMO.com: Cephalopod Fossils and History Articles
- The Cephalopod Page: Fossil Cephalopods FAQs
- Engage in Proper Cephalopod Pluralization
- Read about cephalopods
- squid.us
- The Octopus News Magazine
- Pharyngula: Octopus Brains
- Write, draw, sing about Cephalopods
- CrashOctopus Blog: Musical Cephalopod
- Carne Curda: El Pulpo
- Jonathan Coulton: Octopus (mp3)
- Kevin Zelnio: Giant Squid Breakdown
- Spread the Word about Cephalopod Appreciation Day!
If you write a post about cephalopods today, let me know! Just like last year, I’ll be collecting links from around the Interweb at cephalopodcast.com/octopusday
THANKS! I ♥♥♥ Cephalopods
*It is still unofficial because no official governing body has (yet) made it a declaration.
Hooray cephalopods! I just wrote a post about this at the Oceana blog, http://community.oceana.org/, along with today’s contestant in our Freaky Fish contest, which happens to be — surprise — a cephalopod, the googly-eyed glass squid. Check it out and vote for your favorite.
Just to point out that your image is wrong. It’s the 8th, not the 10th.
Happy Cephalopod Day though, nonetheless!
Guy
You could also head over to your local pumpkin patch, get a pumpkin, and create one of these many cephs:
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/giansquidpum.html
http://www.extremepumpkins.com/octoberpus.html
Shane
#9 is incomplete!
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/search/label/cephalopods
Made these a few years ago, but I think they are appropriate for today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyxprice/133964748/
Erm… the graphic says International Cephalopod Appreciation Day is “10 October 2008″ - Being held by a cephalopod, I assume it was created by one. I thought they were smarter than that.
Thanks to all for the correction. Updated the graphic. Indeed, too bad I am not as smart as a cephalopod.
Hi,
Found your blog by way of Pharyngula. I put up a post about it at my blog, Thinking Outside. Happy Cephalopod Appreciation Day!
Oops - almost forgot! Here’s my post, better late than never:
http://tai-haku.blogspot.com/2008/10/810-you-know-what-that-means.html
Well, I’m exactly one month late, but I wanted an excuse to show off this cuttlefish:
http://virusmachine.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/international-cephalopod-appreciation-and-awareness-day/