Click to viewInternational Talk Like a Pirate Day has spawned far more than its fair share of bad attempts at humor in the form of press releases from Internet startups. Even companies like Google and Facebook have indulged themselves. Please, leave the comedy to the professionals from the venerable Ask a Ninja franchise. Creators Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine are promoting their book, The Ninja Handbook, with a live call-in show on Ustream.tv featuring everyone's favorite pirate-hating ninja — which may be the first intentionally funny live video broadcast in the history of Web 2.0.

Revision3 videoblogger Martin Sargent began the closing keynote at Ad:tech — also a live taping of his talk show Internet Superstar — with a video tour through the conference floor. The best part was when Sargent walked over to a booth. "So you're Smiley Media?" he asked. "That's us." Sargent: "What the fuckk are you so happy about?" The Daily Show's Rob Corddry couldn't have done it better. It was a good moment for Web TV, made especially sweet by the fact that hundreds of ad buyers — Revision3's prospective clients, many of them — were looking on from the audience. Too bad that was the keynote's last watchable moment.

Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine will write the script for a remake of 1978's Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! The pair are best known for the campy Web video series Ask a Ninja. Their latest episode and a clip from the 1978 film, below.