#44154: coturnix — 10/17  at  08:21 AM
Oooh - it's cool!

Well, my house is all birds and horses....

#44159: S.T.R. — 10/17  at  08:43 AM
I firmly believe you cannont go wrong with tentacles.

That table is totally rad. I want one.

#44160: — 10/17  at  08:51 AM
Me too.

I wonder if PZ has thought to print that pic out and leave copies lying around the house as a hint for an upcoming birthday present.

#44164: — 10/17  at  08:56 AM
It's actually quite attractive in a sort of curvilinear Art Nouveau-ish way. Personally, I prefer the interior design of the space station and spaceships in "2001" - and probably about as much chance of being allowed to have them.

#44167: — 10/17  at  09:22 AM
That table is watching me.

#44168: That Girl — 10/17  at  09:51 AM
What's wrong with that? The antiques of today are not "at some point everyone had one of these in their living room". Different is cool. Mutation is revolution. Fight the man.

#44170: The Countess (Trish Wilson) — 10/17  at  09:59 AM
Gee, I thought your house was already furnished like that. ;)

Could be worse. Your house could be furnished with velvet Elvises and glow-in-the-dark velvet zodiacs. Some people never leave the '70s.

#44171: Orac — 10/17  at  10:00 AM
Groovy.

Where's it from.

#44173: — 10/17  at  10:10 AM
Somethin like that would be perfect in a lab, put your fishtanks on it.

#44177: — 10/17  at  10:16 AM
my whole house would be furnished like this.

Squidhaus? De Squid? Art Cepho? Squidimalism? Pod art?

#44178: covington — 10/17  at  10:17 AM
That's a fantastic table!

Speaking of having creepy taste, after looking through the skulls catalog you posted I thought what a cool thing it would be to have a resin skull fabbed out from a CT Scan of myself... having my own skull sitting on my coffee table. I thought everyone would think it's as interesting an idea as I did.

Nope. But it was just as amusing watching people recoil in confusion and horror at the idea.

#44182: — 10/17  at  10:42 AM
With advances in rapid prototyping, enough money would probably get it done these days. If you have enough money.

#44187: Ron Sullivan — 10/17  at  11:11 AM
Friend of ours owned (probably still does) a human skull, which she kept on her home desk as I recall. Sometimes someone would comment and ask where she got it.

"It's my grandfather's."

Which it was; he was a physician and had kept it on his desk. But when the first person she said that to, innocently enough (or so she claims) jumped and squawked, she decided she had a good reflexive answer for the question.

#44197: — 10/17  at  12:10 PM

With advances in rapid prototyping, enough money would probably get it done these days. If you have enough money.

Mike, what are you answering? To me, rapid prototyping is a systems development method, but it doesn't seem like this would be the case here - at least I can't see where such a reference would be natural.

#44212: — 10/17  at  01:01 PM
Are you sure it's not a rendition of His Noodly?

#44214: covington — 10/17  at  01:03 PM
He's refering to my tangent, talking about fabricating a customized/personalized skull in resin from a 3d rendering generated by a CT scan, presumably using those nifty CAD/CAM laser systems that cure the resin layer by layer.

#44279: Joel — 10/17  at  04:51 PM
How long is that? I want to summon Great Cthulhu and thought it would make the niftiest altar of sacrifice....

On a more serious note, I like it, too. Would make a great place to snack on calimari....

#44355: — 10/18  at  04:44 AM
All you squidaholics out there might want to listen to this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/nature.shtml

There's a nice picture of Histioteuthis heteropsis there too

#44708: arensb — 10/19  at  01:57 PM
Ask her whether you can get some of these knick-knacks.