Here's the now-famous photograph. Was it worth the mass hysteria it caused in downtown Manhattan? You decide.Ol' Chumbucket and Mad Sally, the pirates behind Talk Like a Pirate Day are on the phone from their Caribbean hideout. And investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen offers us a look inside Area 51 (not to be confused with Studio 54).

















Also, Ron Darling is here. A member of the 1986 World Champion Mets, Ron Darling's new book, 

Phil Spector Convicted!

Polar explorer Tom Avery is here too. He's one of 41 people in human history to reach both the north and south pole on foot. His book about the experience is 
Deadliest Warrior

















After graduating from college, Adam Shepard set out with $25 and the clothes on his back. Shepard set out to see what he could accomplish, and if the American Dream was still alive. He writes about his year-long experiment in 