Silent film star Edmund Kesting and dancer Dean Goodelle “go like this”. If you’ll excuse me I have to go reprimand Ross for his flagrant disregard for my “do not abuse the time machine” rule.

Vintage Photo [ectochat : Thanks Nark!]

• An accusatory finger points at the sphincter of a nine-tentacled octopus. A nonopus? Thanks, Karen!

• Cycloptic space squidling hugs onto the side of a Mars rover in the latest Ectomo-endorsed Threadless tee. Thanks, Blackrockbob!

• Brad sends in this news report about a strange virus hitting the most remote island on earth, triumphantly crowing “IT HAS BEGUN!” R’lyeh, anyone?

• Creationism dismissed as a ‘kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer. This story seems to be surprising a lot of people, but Catholicism has been edging away from a literal interpretation of Genesis for centuries now. This guy’s making some good points. ectotweeted by Wolven.

• Also from Wolven, some sort of bacon flowchart.

• Nicholas Cage goes absolutely zonkers when confronted with the prospect of authographing the six breasts of three twins. Hey, who wouldn’t? Ectotweeted by oldhat.

• The best thing to come out of yesterday’s inaugural ectochat: “Marmaduke, are you even listening to me you zany dog?”