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Friday Squid Blogging: Natural Squid Steganography

2008-10-10 16:58:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Squid can communicate with each other without any other fish noticing: Squid and their relatives have eyes that are sensitive to polarised light and to them and are known to use it to signal to one another. Their predators on the other hand, like seals or whales, don't share this ability and cannot see the squids' signals Most of all, the...
 
Tags: squid, iridescent light, conversations carry secrets, light, entire visual conversations, predators, lies, world, signals
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Beaks for Artificial Limbs?

2008-04-04 16:38:29 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...squid's mouth, the researchers found That means the tough beak can chomp away at fish for dinner, but the hard material doesn't press or rub directly against the squid's softer tissues Herbert Waite, a professor in the university's department of molecular, cellular & developmental biology and co-author of the paper, said such graduated...
 
Tags: squid, squid beaks, biomedical materials, biomedical, materials, medical materials, hard materials occur, beak, squid beak
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Craft Projects

2008-03-14 16:15:03 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
How to knit and felt a squid. Knit your own squid amigurumi . A squid scarf . And a crocheted squid cat toy
 
Tags: squid, squid amigurumi, squid scarf, squid cat toy, knit
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Plastinated Squid

2008-03-28 16:29:19 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...squid -- a 6.5-metre-long (21.25-feet) deep-sea beast donated by New Zealand and named in honour of a creature featuring in Maori legend Plastination entails replacing the animal's water, fat and other liquids with a polymer that hardens It means the specimen can be appreciated in three dimensions in a dry, solid state, rather than in a jar...
 
Tags: squid, architeuthis sanctipauli lost, architeuthis, giant squid, 25-feet, feet, deep-sea beast, paris museum, metres
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: The Mystery of Humbolt Squid Beaks

2008-09-12 16:59:55 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...squid, but here's one of the strangest: Its beak. The squid's beak is one of the hardest organic substances in existence -- such that the sharp point can slice through a fish or whale like a Ginsu knife. Yet the beak is attached to squid flesh that itself is the texture of jello. How precisely does a gelatinous animal safely wield such a...
 
Tags: squid, giant humboldt squid, sharp, razor-sharp weapon, ginsu knife, beak, squid flesh, knife, roast
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: National Geographic Colossal Squid Photo

2008-01-25 16:40:04 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
It's also dead : Heavier than even giant squid , colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) have eyes as wide as dinner plates and sharp hooks on some of their suckers. The new specimen weighs in at an estimated 990 pounds (450 kilograms
 
Tags: colossal squid, giant squid, sharp hooks, heavier, pounds, weighs, hamiltoni, kilograms, suckers
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Burning Squid

2008-07-25 16:10:22 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
At the June Apogaea regional Burning Man event in Colorado, they burned a wooden/cloth giant squid. Before the burn, participants could crawl into the base of the body and turn a massive kaleidoscope with sun shining in the top. ( Pictures of the squid and its demise. A picture from the inside
 
Tags: squid, woodencloth giant squid, june apogaea regional, massive kaleidoscope, body, participants, demise, inside, picture
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Lolcat with Squid

2008-01-04 16:19:53 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Lolcat with squid
 
Tags: lolcat, squid
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Cocaine Smuggled in Giant Squid

2008-02-01 16:22:25 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
This link is from 2004, but still.... Peruvian police say they have seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kilograms) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States
 
Tags: giant squid bound, cocaine, peruvian police, link, mexico, kilograms, pounds
 
 
 
 
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Friday Squid Blogging: Video of Vampire Squid

2008-03-21 16:59:01 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
Definitely worth watching , especially the squid's security countermeasures near the end of the video
 
Tags: video, squid, security countermeasures, worth