More pictures of weird deep-sea squid, courtesy of National Geographic, via Art Black.

An alarming squidshot: a Vampyroteuthis infernalis (vampire squid from hell) turning itself inside out.
(Thanks to Art Black, YouTube and National Geographic)

I, too, have been snapshot by Kathryn Linge.

According to the blog of marine biologist Kevin Z., now that all species of the squid genus Moroteuthis have been reclassified as genus Onykia, someone has the unenviable task of explaining this to the squid. Hence the new pastime of squid wrestling.

Photo courtesy of Alaska Fisheries Science Center

For many years, there has been talk of a machine that would print and bind a book in about 15 minutes, enabling bookshops and distributors to reduce the cost of shipping and storage of books. Shops would keep a range of covers in stock for browsers to examine, and maybe a few dumpbins of books [...]

For those of you who thought that math classes were a waste of time because you were never going to visit whichever country it is where they speak algebra, Matt Bailey has done a detailed statistical analysis of the notoriously high mortality rate of red-shirted crewmen beaming down to the planet - and he has [...]

The Horror Writers Association has asked its members to let people know that the new edition of On Writing Horror, edited by Mort Castle and the HWA, with chapters by Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, Ramsay Campbell and others, is now available.
I haven’t seen a copy of the new book, but I did [...]

According to Cambridge history lecturer Dr Richard Toye, Winston Churchill borrowed phrases such as “English-speaking peoples”, “gathering storm” and “reverse employer of Labour” from science fiction works by H. G. Wells.
Toye quotes a fan letter Churchill wrote to Wells in 1902, and Churchill saying in 1931 that he could “pass an exam” on Wells’s work.
Toye [...]

Stephen Green, director of evangelical group Christian Voice, has refused to join in a panel discussion with Australian comic Jim Jeffries, explaining that: “Freedom of speech doesn’t go so far as being blasphemous. This is a matter of God being gratuitously insulted. God is Almighty and beyond insult.”
How’s that again?

From Scientific American’s website: Gary Larson to the White Courtesy Phone
Science Idol: the Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest is being sponsored by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The competition offers prizes to both professional and aspiring cartoonists for the best cartoons about the abuse of science by politicians. Rules for the contest can be [...]