Indie Squid Kid » Cephalopodcast http://www.indiesquidkid.com The continuing adventures of a hopelessly obsessed collector of squid paraphernalia, cephalopod ephemera and other tentacled miscellanea. Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:50:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Get ready for International Cephalopod Awareness Day(s)! http://www.indiesquidkid.com/2009/10/01/get-ready-for-international-cephalopod-awareness-days/ http://www.indiesquidkid.com/2009/10/01/get-ready-for-international-cephalopod-awareness-days/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:27:16 +0000 Indie Squid Kid http://www.indiesquidkid.com/?p=902 October 8th, 2009 marks the 3rd annual International Cephalopod Awareness Day. Of course, every day is cephalopod awareness day here at Indie Squid Kid, but I can’t pass up an opportunity to help in my own small way to make everyone even more aware of the coolest animals in the planet. This year, ICAD is a three day event:

Thursday, Oct 8 is Octopus Day

Friday, Oct 9 is Nautilus Night

Saturday, Oct 10 is Squid Day

So what does this mean exactly? The editors at CephalopodCast.com invite anyone in the blogosphere to participate in the three day celebration. Bloggers, artists, poets and musicians are encouraged to create one or more works to mark the occasion and submit them for aggregation on a special Cephalopod Awareness Days commemorative page. Topics can be scientific, cultural or fictional. As long as they somehow include cephalopod awareness, they will be considered. If you don’t have a blog, but still want to contribute, contact the editors for ways your creation can be hosted on the site.

Additionally, free promotional space is available to artists that contribute to the ICAD campaign. Any artist that creates a Cephalopod Awareness Day badge can have it featured prominently on the site, along with a link to their Web site, Etsy shop or portal. See example above. Badges should not be more than 200×200 pixels in jpg or png format. Badges submitted after October 8 will be irrelevant. See the guidelines on the Cephalopod Awareness Days official commemorative page for more details.

For my part, I plan to use these three days to focus on the biology and natural history of the different cephalopod groups. I’ve been wanting to ratchet up the science around here, and can’t think of a better excuse than International Cephalopod Awareness Day!

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