Bitcoin mining with Namecoin at the same time... how does this worK?

[colinistheman]

see title

[Nik1ab]

http://dot-bit.org/Merged_Mining

[rn4j0r]

I use bitminter to mine BTC + Namecoin at the same time.

[enigmazr]

I also use BitMinter to mine for both BTC and namecoin.  I'd like to put my namecoins to use.  What are some good ways to spend them?

[ArcticWolf]

Namecoins have a very small value, but when you have a decent amount of them you can send them to btc-e.com and exchange them for bitcoins