Victorian octopus (link roundup)

Victorian octopus with a mustache by Mike Hiscott. High-res image here, along with a not safe for work drawing.

And a few more links:

1. A cat and his bodyguards, perhaps?

2. Breastfeeding and ninjas are a surprisingly funny match.

3. Michale Crichton's pilot script for ER was 20 years old when the first episode was made. Also, the pilot was screened on cable television. People were recruited to watch it, but if you were lucky, you would have just stumbled upon it by accident. Two of the interesting factoids from this article. (And I've only ever watched a single episode.)

4. I don't think it's online anywhere but there's a "You're the next studio head" board game by Chip Wass in the March issue of Los Angeles magazine.

*Previously: The world's more like a Crichton novel every day.

*Buy steampunk creations at eBay.

The world seems more like a Michael Crichton novel everyday

1. Chief executives and doctors at various hospitals in Los Angeles accused of luring homeless people into hospitals and giving them unnecessary and dangerous treatments as a way to defraud taxpayer-funded healthcare programs. Link. (Next.)

2. "It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more 'provocative' than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface." Link. Via. (Sphere.)

3. Rare metals are worth killing over in Africa. Link. (Congo.)