Tony Blow, a longtime commentor on Collision Detection and publisher of Typescape, has just launched the Squidblog — a blog for people “who are fascinated by giant squid and related semi-mythical creatures.” There could be no task more noble. This thing is now a daily part of my news diet.

And this month was a hell of a propitious time to start a blog about squid, because of the recent invertebrate invasion! Last week, about 1,500 jumbo squid washed up dead on the shores of Orange County in California. As The Seattle Times reported:

“These things are invading, and we don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “It may be they’re following a warm California current. Oceanographers don’t have a clue why a large population of squid like this is moving north or why they strand themselves.”

One theory is that fisheries have sufficiently depleted the area of sharks and and big tunas that the squid can now “forage without a threat”.

(Thanks to Tony for this one!)