A Pirate Moment

It seems, lately, that everyone has lost sight of what is really important. Pirates.

I have gathered some information for you, so I guess you probably ought to pour yourself a dram of rum, cut a lime to stave off the scurvey, and come back here when you are ready, we are going to have a pirate moment.



ARRRRRR! Okay now hit play and read some stories. Now you ought to read the tale of Blackbeard first, if you haven't ever - this is the best telling I was able to find on the internet, and you should read it while "Queen Anne's Revenge" is still playing. Maybe you'll notice that the song gets the jolly roger all wrong, Blackbeard never flew a skull and bones, if he had, he'd have had a lot more enemies, since he was into murdering quite a bit more than other pirates, and traditionally the skull and bones meant an offer of quarter or mercy at the cost of surrender, if a pirate ruined that contract, he'd have a lot of pirates after him in addition to the navies who he had offended. If merchant ships thought they couldn't safely surrender, it would make pirates' jobs a lot harder.

Other pirate websites are far worse, but wikipedia remains hasty. Here are some of my favorites:
Long Ben
Blackbeard
Black Bart
Calico Jack
Jack Ward
Wikipedia doesn't seem to have a decent list of pirate ships, and this one is unverified:
Some notable pirate ships...

Music to my ears!

I recently discovered "Grooveshark". You can share Playlists! The art of mix making is back! Here are some I made for you to listen to! You might have to scroll down a bit, since Blogspot renders tables about ten miles down the page for some reason.

Plaid
Solace
Lunacy
Plaider
Glass

I am working on some more to come, so let me know if you like any of these, and share some of your own lists with me, too! There are other tools like this as well. A lot of people are using Spotify, which I don't like as much because it requires a client and a lot of bullshit, but it seems more organized. Rdio is another, but they want to display album art in large sizes, which can be unsafe at work. Grooveshark's major drawback is that they are on apple's bad side, and if you are an iPhone user, you can't get their app unless you jailbreak. I guess I'll be getting a droid soon...