The latter would be much less effective following the advice of the former

Teresa has the guidelines for Talk Like a Pirate Day. And here be a link to Wikipedia’s definition of rhotic, for those o’ ye what don’t savvy the phonetic lingo. Aaar.

And changing subjects, here’s a nicely done bit of cynical fiction in video form. (Via Long story; short pier.)

BBC competes with Quizzilla

What kind of thinker are you?

Apparently I’m a Spatial Thinker (think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the physical world, think well in three dimensions, have a flair for working with objects).