I’ve been noodling around with some new designs for the site and in doing so I became increasingly annoyed that the cycloptopus (as he exists now) isn’t the most anatomically correct—as far as cephalopods are concerned anyway. I’m going to continue to obsess over it, as I am prone to do, but I decided to share up a desktop picture for those who might be inclined to adorn their computer with this cryptozoological wonder.

The desktop image comes in three sizes: 1920 x 1200, 1280 x 800 and 1024 x 768 and can be downloaded here.

Well, it was only a matter of time before this happened. Cycloptopus has been cross-stitchified. Last week Josh converted the beloved mascot of cycloptop.us to a pixel version. And so I did my part and cross stitched him.

Check out more cross stitches at our Flickr photostream!

I thought it might be interesting to take a look at the history of the Cycloptopus now that “version 2.0″ is out in the wild. Originally conceived for a personal branding project way back in 2006, this little guy has changed quite a bit over the years. Heck, I don’t even think he had a name until about a year ago (and that name is thanks to Mr. Kyle Adams.) I’m a little disappointed that I don’t have the original sketches anymore, but lets take a look at what I was able to dig up.

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