Ok, it’s clever. Facebook added a translated version of the site today in honor of Talk Like A Pirate Day. But instead of seeing Facebook in French or Esperanto, you can see Facebook in “Pirate.” Just go here and select English (Pirate).
Your Profile is now “Me.” Your Friends are now “Me Hearties.” Your status box asks “What arrr ye doin’ right now?” Applications are now “Arrrrrplications.” Etc. And when you’re all done, you don’t log out. You “Abandon Ship.”
Well done.
Update: Google’s also getting into Talk Like A Pirate Day, pointing out that each year searches spike for the term, and noting that “ye c’n set Pirate as yer preferred lingo usin’ th’ Likes an’ Dislikes page.”
Update 2: VentureBeat reports that FriendFeed and others are also joining in the revelry.
Tim O’Reilly is going to be pissed.
I should go look for some Loot to plunder!
arrrrrrr
if only this could trigger real pirates to hack facebook for good, so i could get on with my life.
haha! We can all hope..
Jake
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The graph keeps moving up regularly http://www.google.com/trends/v.....g&sa=N
Yeah, except for the last year, where it dropped considerably.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Arrr, yeah i read that, can we get a pirated ‘ersion o’ techcrunch Aye, me parrot concurs.
yep. get it out of your system.
Avast Arrington, ye land lubber. How’d you like to scrape the barnacles off of me rudder?
are you threatening physical violence, or hitting on me?
LOL, er, ehem… I mean…
ARRRR! Y’er joke’n.. ’tis shivering my timbers in laughter!
I’m afraid it’s the latter or maybe just because I was trying to make it rhyme
Have ya ever met a man with a real yardarm?
k stop.
Arrington what are you afraid of? I heard despite all the money you have you still got roommates.
Aye aye cap’n arrrrr….
I especially love the “Settins”-menu with the new “Settins of me Piracy”-item: http://drop.io/hidden/tyo9oubm.....ljdHVyZTE=
eww
meebo still has the pirate talk functionality - you can just send out “pirateon” and translation over IM begins, arrr
ARRRGGGG if i haven’t landed upon thar most pillaged blog in thar land!
Hah! That’s some great news ^_^ ARRRRRRRR!!!
Found this perfect quote
“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats”
they should make it a bit easier to switch back to normal again though!
i had to come back here to find the translation link as i couldn’t figure out what the pirate for ‘translation’ was once i’d switched!
Good fun for 5mins though.
World of Warcraft has a Pirate day in-game as well, everyone gets to dress up like a pirate just by talking to an npc. And there is a pirate party where you can dress like a pirate for 12 hours talking to the pirate captain.
http://12seconds.tv seems to have gotten into the spirrrrit as well. Even letting visitors in on the action.
popurls.com has a funny logo today
aaaaaaaarrington
Pirates are serious business. What would happen, for example, if they attacked Google’s floating data centers?
Oops, almost forgot. ARRRR!
I think that’s what ye be looking for:
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-pirate
Talking like a pirate is so three centuries ago - I’m TEXTING like a pirate.
http://tinyurl.com/4hhgrw
Theme song for today, A Pirate I Was Meant To Be from Monkey Island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AawQvD8L_h4
Aye, just found an iPhone application for all you lazy pirates - http://profy.com/2008/09/19/21.....irate-day/.