The Pirate Party has won a huge victory in the Swedish elections and is marching on to Brussels. After months of campaigning against well established parties, the Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat in the European Parliament.

If you’ve been paying attention around the Interwebs the past few days, you may have seen a bunch of stuff about ThePirateBay.org, a Sweden-based Website, going on trial in Sweden. But unless you’re really into copyright laws or downloading BitTorrent files, the whole thing might be a bit confusing.

Okay, so a monk walks into a Best Buy. This isn’t a joke.

He buys three CDs, eight movies, two computer games, Adobe Illustrator CS3, the entire X-Files series, Microsoft Office Professional, and Rosetta Stone v3, so he can learn Swahili to communicate with his half-sister. The cost of all that? Easily over $2,500. Two weeks ago he bought Autodesk Maya… Click to read more