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After a brief, completely non-Starcraft-related hiatus, Your Week in Geek has come bounding back, bristling with the kind of geeky news so awesome and exciting it’ll wrinkle your new shirt.woot tee from fifty yards away.  (Please note that The Modern Day Pirates can claim no responsibility for damage done to either your shirt or yourself [...]

Barefoot running is a trend and a life style taking the nation, and the world, by storm.  If you think about it for a minute, it really makes sense.  Humans are not born with shoes on, so why do we invest in little devices that do nothing but protect the supple skin on the bottoms [...]

Your Week in Geek rolls on to another round-up of important news, events and awesome stuff pulled from the pages of the internets, and distilled for you here into a fine, nutritious and delicious paste.   Seeing as this is the third week of this column, it just might  qualify as the most consistent thing [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to another (day-late) round of Your Week in Geek.  San Diego Comic-Con is in full-swing as of Thursday, and a mother-load of potentially jaw-dropping-ly, world-shatteringly awesome nerd news has been dropped so far this weekend.  As such, you can consider this week’s roundup to be but the tip of the veritable [...]

Welcome to a new, weekly column from the fine people at Modern Day Pirates, to you, the fine readers of Modern Day Pirates.  Herein you will find a round-up of events, releases, and news from the wilds of the internets, distilled here for your reading pleasure.

Back in February, Brandon and Amanda wrote pieces on the five books that shaped their life.  Since I spent Sunday’s Do Nothing But Read Day decidedly not reading while attending a Weird Al concert (which was awesome), I feel I should pay homage to the books that made me who I am today:

The personalized mouse ears. The Mickey-shaped ice cream. Meeting Mickey, Minnie and all their friends for the first time.  Everyone remembers some element of their first trip to Disney World, even if their first trip was when they were only 3 or 4 years old.  However a lot of people are of the opinion that [...]

You need a domain for your romaine?

Before I say anything else, kudos to Lost on having the gumption to air the third to last episode of the entire series and not have a single new scene with a series regular character in the entire episode.