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So for some reason I am on a pirate kick today and found a bunch of interesting stuff. Probably has something to do with the release of Pirates of the Carribean 2, won’t be out here for another 2 weeks unfortunately… not that I really have the time to go see it, but not having time has never stopped me from doing anything else =0

First lots of information (Wikipedia is evil, it’s like crack cocaine to me, I go there to look up one thing and then between all the linked info and Firefox’s tabbed browsing I am sitting digging through Wikipedia articles for hours on end instead of working, then when I am done I come here and write about it! HAH! It’s amazing I ever get any work done!)

Buccaneer – Probably the type of pirates we are all most familiar with.

Piracy – The real kind, not the kind the RIAA and MPAA made up.

Jolly Roger – The flag not Captain Hook’s ship

I won’t link to the entire wikipedia, if you visit any of the above links you can probably find enough links yourself.

As for the non-wikipedia sites.

A site all about pirates (real ones not the ridiculous ninjas vs. pirates crap floating around the net lately, is it just me or does it sometime seem like people intentionally try to invent new ways to remain ignorant?)
http://blindkat.hegewisch.net/pirates/punish.html#plank

And another great pirates site.
http://bonaventure.org.uk/ed/pmlife.htm

And finally another site specifically about Blackbeard (Edward Teach) but with lots of info about pirates and piracy in general.
http://www.blackbeardlives.com/

Also while on the subject of pirates, I also stumbled upon a site with all the music from all 4 Monkey Island games available for download for free! If you don’t know What Monkey Island is go check out the Wikipedia article here, it’s the greatest point and click adventure series ever made. (They’ve got soundtracks for a lot of other Lucasarts games as well).
http://soundtracks.mixnmojo.com/

And if you’re interested a couple of related items I found interesting from Amazon. (Unfortunately they didn’t have Curse of Monkey Island, which I think is the best game in the series)