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Ahoy mates! Today be International Talk Like a Pirate day, but surely you already know that. What you don’t know is how interesting these five links are:

• Malacca Strait Pirates - A National Geographic photo gallery about the pirates of the Malacca Strait in Southeast Asia. Particularly appropriate for today!
• New York Rises by Eugene de Salignac - A Smithsonian article on the works of Eugene de Salignac, the previously anonymous photographer responsible for thousands of beautiful New York photos dating back to 1906. The photo of the Brooklyn Bridge painters is my favourite; the lines are gorgeous.
• The Daily Lives of SS Officers at Auschwitz - A photo album was recently discovered, showing the daily lives of officers who worked at Auschwitz. None of the photos in this audio slideshow are graphic in any way, but that’s what makes them so powerful. It reminds us that, as the narrator says, this was an atrocity perpetrated by human beings with families and pets, not some amorphous group of boogeymen.
• Canon Firmware Hack to Unlock DIGIC-II Cameras - A fancy firmware upgrade for some of the Canon A and S series’ of digital compacts that unlocks a whole host of features. Most of these features, like being able to shoot in RAW, are normally only found in their digital SLRs.
• Photoshop Question: Save as vs. Save for Web? - A pretty good comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of using ‘Save As’ and ‘Save for Web’ in Photoshop. Personally, I *always* use ‘Save As’ but that’s mainly because I’m addicted to EXIF data.

You should also be headin’ into me gallery to see Talk Like a Pirate Day photos from the 2006 Vancouver flashmob.