Happy Halloween!

Every year Google does a special banner for its homepage on Halloween and 2008 Halloween is no exception.

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2008

Check out previous Google Halloween homepage banners:

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2007

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2006

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2005

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2004

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2003

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2002

Google’s Halloween Homepage Banner 2001

There must be other sites that do stuff like this, but I really cant think of any! Anyone know any?

Drink up me hearties, yo ho!

Garrrr! It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day and damn ye all ya yellow-bellied sapsuckers who de’nay participate in the fun.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day be a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by buckos John Baur (Ol’ Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap’n Slappy).

International Talk Like a Pirate Day be celebrated on SeptembARrrrr 19th every year and has be growin’ steadily in popularity since ’tis creation. Garrr!

Piracy On The Cyber-Seas
International Talk Like a Pirate Day be also widely celebrated in online communities and in MMORPGs.

The World of Warcraft, Lord of The Rings Online and The Sims 2 on Nintendo DS all celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day.

In The World of Warcraft Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy appear as characters on International Talk Like a Pirate Day and provide some lucky buckos with a scurvy Pirate Costume they can wear in-game fer 12 hours.

Talk Like a Pirate Day Resources
The Official International Talk Like a Pirate Day website is run by Ol’ Chumbucket and Cap’n Slappy.

Already this day bin had fun usin’ th’ facilities at postlikeapirate.com which converts ye twittArrr and MySpace messages to scurvy Pirate Speak! It also has an English to scurvy Pirate Speak translator.

Anyone doin’ anythin’ special fer International Talk Like a Pirate Day?

It took me 3 hours to make and upload this video of the amazing time I had at Reading Festival 2008 and it was good; until YouTube mangled the fuck out of it and made it all blurry. A shame, cos I had some really good footage of the HADOUKEN!, Black Tide and Bring Me The Horizon pits.

Bring Me The Horizon did brilliantly for a band who were booked last minute to replace SlipKnot, Black Tide were incredible and HADOUKEN!, well… HADOUKEN! ruled!

The phrase butt scratcher was endlessly bounced around Reading Festival 2008. This is reference to Family Guy’s 5th season episode ‘No Chris Left Behind‘ in which Peter takes on a second job selling butt scratchers at baseball games.

Butt Scratcher!