PIRATE versus NINJA

The age old question - that deep and dark mystery that we know as Pirates Versus Ninja. We all know who would win - the pirates of course! Just kidding, ninja-lovers. Ninjas would of course win. Or at the very least the British Royal Navy and their (no, no, we're not really pirates because we're being paid) Privateers. But who would have more fun? That's the real question, and I think we all know the answer to that one. A good read on the subject of pirates, by the way, is "the Republic of Pirates" by Colin Woodard: the trials and tribulations of Caribbean pirates in the not particularly long-lived Golden Age of Pirates. I have no books to recommend for ninjas, but they're cool cats no doubt. Out of the box thinkers and all that. For some interesting applications of their techniques, check out "the Center for Tactical Magic":http://www.tacticalmagic.org/