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The discovery of remains belonging to a tiny species of ancient human has been hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades… For the full story click here.

Looks like The Man is catching up with the SmackPerps who stole the Half-Life 2 source code:

Cyber cops nab ‘Half-Life 2′ thieves

Just line ‘em up and give us all a crowbar. We know what to do.

Welcome to another installment of….

The What The? Files

So it’s fun sometimes to pretend you are somebody else on the internet. People do that sort of thing all the time for thrills, or dates, or to get busted by the FBI.

But if you’re really looking for something interesting to do in a chat room, try to convince somebody you’re a spy so that you can then convince them the real you needs to be murdered.

Consider, if you will:

Internet Boy Posed As Spy to Arrange Own Murder

If this was a movie plot, would anybody believe it? All that creativity and angst for nothing, and now he’s in jail. Maybe he should have spent more time ordering around a chicken and less time… well, doing everything else.

“John pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.” What a perfect choice of words.