jamiam pointed me to this t-shirt.

It's arrival will be one of the happiest days of my life.

And since I'm on the topic (yes, again), the squid below is not a model. It's an actual giant squid that's been plastinated, like those dead people in those exhibits of dead people that are the latest craze sweeping the nation. The plastination process caused it to shrink about seven feet, leaving it only around 2/3 of its size while alive.



(Via from National Geographic. More here.)

Via my brother Mike:

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A fishing crew has caught a colossal squid that could weigh a half-ton and prove to be the biggest specimen ever landed, a fisheries official said Thursday.

The squid, weighing an estimated 990 lbs and about 39 feet long, took two hours to land in Antarctic waters, New Zealand Fisheries Minister Jim Anderton said.

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(I know, shaolingrrl, sad for the squid. The fishermen didn't go after it intentionally, at least. And I do think we should be looking for them alive, in their natural environment, with robots and submarines and stuff. And, hey, stop looking at me like that, I didn't kill it, it was that way when I found it! I don't even eat calamari!)