There are a number of "alt coins" which appear legitimate, and are used by a wider community. This thread on the Bitcoin forums has a good overview, it also includes the less popular and dead crypto currencies: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0

I like the idea of PPcoin very much, being an ecologic alternative to Bitcoin. They still have mining, like Bitcoin and all other alts, and this will consume as much electricity. But when all coins are mined, the power needs will drop significantly. The creators devised a very clever way to record transactions in the block chain without the need to do all the calculations which are done when mining. Website, including the white paper with a detailed explanation: http://www.ppcoin.org/

Probably the oldest alt coin still in use today is Namecoin. It integrates a naming system in the block chain, effectively creating a decentralized alternative to DNS.

The most popular alt coin is Litecoin. By some it's called the silver to Bitcoin gold, as it provides faster transactions and more coins generated.

This is also the subject of today's Ctrl+Alt+Del comic.

Aubron Wood has made a nice web page out of the comic, he was the first one to do so. But I like this one even better:

http://geekwagon.net/projects/xkcd1190/

It also has all the "special" frames (when something changes, when there is dialog,...) listed at the bottom.

The Pirate Times introduces the 3 elected representatives: Iceland Report #4 : History Made by a Hair’s Breadth

Rick Falkvinge, founder of the original (Swedish) Pirate Party, comments: celandic Pirate Party WINS, Enters Parliament

Another article on TorrentFreak: Pirate Party Enters Iceland’s National Parliament After Historic Election Win

Reminds me of DLC Quest, a game which parodies this. You have to pay (with in-game coins) to unlock "features" like moving to the left, sound or animations. I got it a few days ago in the latest Indie Royale Bundle, but that offer has expired now.

Why is it that a bug accepted in 2010, and which received a lot of comments from others with the same problem, is still not acted upon? Is it lack of resources?

Disclaimer: I filled this bug report.

Kriek has fruits in it :-)

(Belle Vue is actually one of the worst brands of lambic beers, try Cantillon, 3 Fonteinen, Boon or Lindemans. And no, I don't suggest you drink it for breakfast :-)

Peter Sunde himself has mixed feelings about TPB AFK. In the end, he's not very happy with it...

Read Peter's complete review on his blog.

Here is an article in Dutch which includes a rendering of the island.

The capacity would be 300 MW, equivalent to a standard gas power station. It could provide electricity for 3 hours a day. This would be sufficient to intercept peak usage during morning and evening hours (1.5 hours each).

One of the contractors would be the Belgian dredging company which also worked on the Palm Islands in the United Arab Emirates. Building of the island would take around 2 years. Price: around 800 million euros.

A number of Pirate Parties around the world are experimenting with tools like LiquidFeedback (Wikipedia link). First of all, they use it internally to shape their party program, policies,... But in countries with elected representatives like Germany, they are also looking into using these tools to let the people have a voice in the point of view their representatives defend. Some interesting articles on the subject: How the German Pirate Party's "Liquid Democracy" Works & How Germany’s Pirate Party is hacking politics.

LiquidFeedback is an implementation of the ideas of Liquid Democracy, providing tools for making proposals, suggesting amendments and voting. A mayor feature is the ability to delegate your vote if you don't have the knowledge or don't want to invest time for certain subjects. For different subjects, you can delegate to different persons, or chose to vote yourself. This gives you a mayor advantage over classic representative democracy, where you have to vote for one person or party which will represent you on a wide variety of subjects. Also, you have the option to change your delegates later on without having to wait for the next elections.

I found this article, linked at the bottom of TFA, much easier to understand: Leprechauns and Laser Beams.

No, that's not what they are talking about. This is about searching in the iTunes store: there is still no way to indicate you are searching for an app, a song or a TV series, and you get all of them in the search results. When in the iTunes store, the search field has no drop down.

And the drop down in the search field when browsing your library was already there in iTunes 10, with the All / Artist / Album / Composer / Song options. They just added the "Search Entire Library" option now.