Whoever is out there making videos can just stop because you’ll never top this one, sorry. Youtube Thanks to TigerCH9, who has the coolest bird ever in the history of birds AND THAT INCLUDES PTERODACTYLS.

This is a pixelated Ghost Pirate LeChuck tattoo in the style of the original Monkey Island . It’s badass and if my balls were any more steel I would have it on my face. Sadly, my little pirate huevos are 24K gold AND BLIND YOUR MOTHER ALL THE TIME. Oh, and for those of you who have no idea who this is, may God have mercy on your soul. On a side note, the 5th (and final) serial in the Tales of Monkey Island series comes out tomorrow. I’ve played through it all so far and highly recommend it DESPITE NEVER RECOMMENDING ANYTHING. Take it as you will, I’m feeling yell-y tonight. Ghost Pirate LeChuck Tattoo [bme] Thanks to Edd, who knows the damage a little voodoo rootbeer can do to a ghost pirate.

Well folks, it happened. The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker officially kicked the bucket yesterday. What does this mean for Pirate Bay users? Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading. “Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well” the Pirate Bay crew write on their blog. And what does this mean for iTunes users? iTunes sucks, there’s no porn on iTunes. HELL YES I QUOTED MYSELF IN AN ARTICLE! I know shit — I can say things! The Pirate Bay Tracker Shuts Down for Good [torrentfreak] Thanks to Bill, who hasn’t paid for music since the Green Jellö cassette with ‘Three Little Pigs’.

These Piratron shirts come in Autopirate and Deceptipirate models and are perfect for showing your support for both high seas plundering AND vehicles that turn into talking robots at the same time . Each shirt will set you back a cool $20, and I recommend getting one of each just in case, well, I don’t know why. Just do it. No I don’t profit from these. But seriously, you can’t have enough. Buy like thirty. Million. Thirty million. DO IT NOW! Product Site Thanks to tim, who agrees that in the battle of pirates vs. robots, the ninjas will prevail.

That’s right you salty, half-masted sons of wenches, tomorrow (September 19th) be International Talk Like A Pirate Day . And to celebrate, TellTale Games is giving away free 1-part episodes of Tales of Monkey Island. Also, I will be getting drunk all day wearing an eyepatch and waving a plastic cutlass. So, if you want some free awesome gameage head over HERE tomorrow to claim your booty . Unless you already own the game like I do CAUSE YOU ARE A PIRATE 4 LIFE! Now, whattya say you and I swill some grog and yell at the wenches? What do you mean, “no”? That’s it: hand me my wooden leg, I’m gonna kick your ass. TellTale Games Thanks to deadbodyman, who talks like a pirate all the time because he illegally downloads copywritten files online all day.

The Pirate Bay , one of the world’s best known torrent search portals, is being sold to some Swedish firm. It will no longer be so piratey . Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish firm that runs Internet cafes and game centers, plans to buy The Pirate Bay for 60 million kronor (~$8 million), twice the fine that was slapped on The Pirate Bay defendants by a Stockholm court earlier this year. …the new owners plan to make it a legal service that allows “content providers and copyright owners [to] get paid for content that is downloaded via the site.” “Legal service”….”paid for content”….they better change the name. Pirate Bay sold, to become more like Carnival Cruise Lines [arstechnica] Thanks to Thumperchica and Zombie Pirate LeChuck, who agrees this isn’t even Disney Pirate’s Bay any more.

NOTE: I embedded the video in high quality so it may take a minute to load. This is a little movie made using nothing by LEGO Mindstorm NXT sets and LEGO blocks . It is amazing. Plus, it’s about pirates, so double whammy. The movie is only 2:20 long, and the rest of the video shows you what’s behind the curtain, so you can understand how it was made. Which surprisingly didn’t involve magic. Or so the maker would like us to believe. I’m on to you, sorcerer! Incredible Mindstorms NXT Theater Creates Pirate Battle On Lego Seas [gizmodo]

If you enter the Konami code (↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A ENTER — don’t do in a text box) after logging into Facebook you get a lens flare effect anytime you click, scroll or type anything. Good times. Unless your epileptic, in which case, dangerous times. Also, if you scroll to the bottom of the page on the left where it has language selection, you can click on that and then choose ‘English (Pirate)’ to change Facebook to pirate talk. So yeah, pirate it up and then join the Geekologie Fan Page (if you haven’t already) so we can all get together and hunt for treasure and shit. Also, I may send a couple of you L337 mateys on top secret missions (possibly with a liquor store involved). After all, you do want to appease the captain, don’t you? NO? Then it’s the plank for you, you barnacle loving scalawag! Oh, but be a doll and fetch me a grog first. Thanks to Ian, Joemo, dboucher, matty, mark, Amanda and Liesel, who all sail under the colors of Geekologie.

So yeah, it turns out the questionably honorable judge (Tomas Norstrom) in the recent Pirate Bay trial is “a member of the Swedish Copyright Association and sits on the board of Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property”. How did this even happen? Hint: Swedish Fish . Love those things. Peter Althin, the lawyer for TPB cofounder Peter Sunde, said he’s asking the Swedish appeals court to consider ordering a retrial based on the judge’s possible bias, the BBC reports. “The judge in one of Sweden’s most high profile case ever is also a member of an interest organisation for one side and associates with the prosecution trial lawyers in his free time? That is inexcusable corruption. Wow, I don’t even know where to being with — ORDER IN THE BLOG! ORDER IN THE BLOG! Bailiff, remove this unruly commenter from my blogroom. Then come back and let me touch your gun. Now, where were we? Oh right — recess. Who’s down for hopscotch?! Pirate Bay judge is member of Copyright Association [zdnet] Thanks to Matty, who is now welcome to join my pirate crew — provided he pass the three trials first.

Rob Spence has had eye problems since a shooting accident at 13. Now 36, Rob had the eye removed three years ago and decided he wants a video camera in it’s place. Only problem: getting a video camera in its place. Thus far, they’ve built devices that create wireless NTSC signals–the sort of standard wireless signal a television uses–and are now working on getting this to work in sync with a miniature camera and a battery, all attached to a printed circuit board, all of which has to fit inside a prosthetic eye. So in the meantime Rob sports the Terminator eye to drum up interest in the project and try to score some funding. Good luck, Rob. And by good luck I mean I won’t hesitate to go John Conner on that ass if I have to. Hit the jump for one more shot and a link to the superlong article.