Haha, nice. I'll dispel the rumor that they are linked in some way by telling you the
http://bitshares.org countdown is to the launch of a new site which looks really cool so far and has much better content than the last iteration. cass is an excellent designer.
and Thepiratebay countdown is for their site's return date from what seems to be the longest time since it went down during the last raid, they say they are 'coming home' who knows where home is lol & they probably have nothing to do with bitshares but they
DO take bitcoin and litecoin donations.