Daily Rotten Archives January 1, 2002 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Fallout is Murder The Age | Submitted by: Soylent "London's metropolitan police are examining [civil] claims from widow Shirley Denson that her husband Eric was ordered to fly his plane through a mushroom cloud several times after a test on Christmas Island in 1958." Read article... Patent office out of control USPTO | Submitted by: Soylent The U.S. Patent Office is asinine. They granted a patent for measuring a bra cup size using this method: "Initially measuring the user's chest or torso circumference with a flexible tape measure immediately below the breasts followed by the step of adding five inches to the measured number and incorporating conventional rounding-off procedures. Next, cup size is determined by directly measuring with the tape the circumference of each unclothed breast from the beginning of the breast mound at one side laterally to the parasternal area medially. Next, a measurement conversion is made wherein a measurement of seven inches corresponds to an "A" size cup, eight inches a "B" size cup, nine inches a "C" cup, etc. Each one inch increment determines a cup size." Read article... And now the Computerized Bra Channel 3000 | Submitted by: CrazyCat And now something actually worth a patent in the bosom department, the computerized bra: "The bra works with a vacuum system, pulling out the tissue to increase the breast size. Two hard plastic cups are linked by tubes to a computer pack, and are pulled together with a mesh sports bra." Read article... 48 relatives die in single truck CNN | Submitted by: Kade "An open truck packed with passengers has crashed down a steep hill in South Africa killing 48 members of the same family. [...] The dead, all members of an extended family, were on their way to visit the graves of relatives at a farm near Roosenekal, about 125 miles northeast of Johannesburg." Read article...