:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 7.04.2003 ::
:: The Blob? ::
From the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER:
Chilean 'blob' may be giant octopus -- or just blubber
A 13-ton, 40-foot-long bloblike carcass discovered along the southern coast of Chile last week is being heralded around the world as possible proof of the fabled "Octopus giganteus," a massive species of octopus that until now had been the stuff of legend.
The discovery, if confirmed, would bump Puget Sound as home to the world's largest octopus.
"Based on the preliminary data, we think it could be a gigantic octopus," said Elsa Cabrera, director of the Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago, Chile. Cabrera said she had contacted scientists around the world who agree the initial findings point to an octopus. She said the tissue would be tested soon to determine its true identity.
"It's whale blubber or maybe a basking shark," predicted Roland Anderson, an octopus expert at the Seattle Aquarium.
Anderson said these "octopus giganteus" alerts happen every so often, going back hundreds of years, and always turn out to be whale blubber or the decayed portion of some other large, sea creature like the huge basking shark.
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