Grab your guts and 'Arrr'

Today marks International Talk Like a Pirate Day, an ironic holiday invented in 1995.

In part a send-up of the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy," tech culture has absorbed pirate symbology and made it a kind of comical meme, much like LOLcats or "Don't tase me, bro!".

Search Engine Land prepared a short list of tech and online companies participating in Pirate Day:

• Google, through its Google Pirate Search feature.
• Friendfeed has a commemorative logo honoring the holiday.
• Search Engine Roundtable prepared a special theme.
• Dogpile's mascot dressed up like a pirate.

Companies that participated last year, and have not this year, include flickr and Ask.com.