US spy agency adopts globe-encircling giant octopus as new logo

Tentacles. N.T. Very important.

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I’ll just cite Hokusai’s Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife as precedent, and move on.

Almost exactly my reaction … my thought was that the logo was clearly designed by someone who fantasized about being as great an agent as Maxwell Smart.

Personally, I think it’s cool any US agency not involved with marine research would use an octopus in it’s logo. I mean, really, they use eagles all the time. And think about eagles - animals that silently swoop down from the sky, killing their prey in one swift stroke, dismembering the bodies and feeding the bloody entrails to their young. That’s pretty damn menacing.

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I spotted ads for Palanter Technologies on the Metro. I wonder why they thought that name is a good idea.Additional strange note: they promote their Philanthropy Engineering program.

My dream is that SC are one day gonna come & sort this fuckin shit right out & then we can all have, like uplift and drug glands & neural laces and stuff.

Shit, working on Batman in the 60s must have been fucking awesome.

This is great, but it’s not the first amazing/terrifying animal logo from a US agency. Check out the Infrared Space System Directorate’s LASER-EYED SPACE EAGLE.

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le sign this is totally a mission patch they even did one that references Sneakers (remember that movie)… also notice the tentacle touches afghanistan. fnord.

Or Hydra.

Your link goes to a non-public Google Drive.

Freudian slip, obviously.

Technically correct, but that’s a bit like drawing the line between, say ā€˜death metal’ and ā€˜goth metal’.

Looks like a pretty standard parking page. It’s just domain name info.

Edit: no not a parking page. Just realized it’s just analytics for the website tekeli.li Looked at it too fast.

A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools.

― Thucydides

Thanks. The combination of that domain and Arabic lettering makes anything look like an invocation…

Darn it. Link fixed.

Too bad the official tshirt for this mission doesn’t match the patch logo here otherwise I’d buy two of em. I like intelligence agencies and octopi so this one is pretty much made for me!