Booty!

I'll be the first to admit this is a niche post, even for this blog...but if ye fancy playing classic ZX Spectrum pirate platformer Booty (and even if you don't think you do, you probably do) head over to World of Spectrum and enjoy. Watch out for the ships parrot.

And while we're enjoying the dubious merits of actual digital piracy, here's a clip of the Doctor Who story The Pirate Planet. Doctor Who has tackled pirates a few times, but this is the only time that that Douglas Adams wrote the script and the only one featuring a robot parrot...