Daily Rotten Archives January 13, 2002 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Brains taken from children by Nazis to be buried Haaretz Daily | Submitted by: anonymous "The brains of hundreds of children, on whom medical experiments were performed and who were murdered in the Spielgrund hospital during the Nazi period, will be buried. The brains have been preserved since then in the Austrian hospital. Hardly anyone knew about them, with the exception of Dr. Heinrich Gross, the Viennese Joseph Mengele." Read article... Boys of Kandahar Times | Submitted by: Soylent "It is called the homosexual capital of south Asia. Such is the Pashtun obsession with sodomy — locals tell you that birds fly over the city using only one wing, the other covering their posterior — that the rape of young boys by warlords was one of the key factors in Mullah Omar mobilising the Taleban." Read article... Needlepoint next target of jackboots MSNBC | Submitted by: Phat Max This is a Napster-size disaster just waiting to happen! "COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT has always impacted the needlework pattern field, because people would illegally photocopy the books and give the copies to friends," Fanton said. But now, thanks to low-priced scanners and online connections, you have people sharing patterns "with thousands of friends on the Net, who share them with more friends and more friends." Read article... Bill would ban space-based mind control weapons Federation of American Scientists | Submitted by: george_lazenby "Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill in the House of Representatives late last year that would ban weapons in space. But while there have been many similar legislative initiatives in the past, Rep. Kucinich's bill is distinguished by its unusually expansive definition of "weapons." Among the weapons that it would proscribe the new measure includes "psychotronic" devices that are "directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of ... mood management, or mind control." [What about weapons directed at Austin Powers' mojo?] Read article... Prince Harry is a pothead News of the World | Submitted by: Soylent "Over a period of two months he used the drug on several occasions, smoking cannabis at Highgrove, at friends' private parties in the Gloucestershire area and in the pub's rundown outhouse. Harry also drank in late-night lock-ins at the Rattlebone, in nearby Sherston, with parties afterwards in the basement of his Highgrove home." [Unfortunately this URL won't be permanent.] Read article... Harvey the mouse must die Moke | Submitted by: Soylent "The only sad thing is, when I sent them to their grave (a city trash bin), they still had some fight left in them. A neighbor looked at me funny as I threw away a sack that seemed to be alive and had high pitched squeaks coming out if it. They started walking away very quickly after I took a photo of the inside of the garbage can. I guess if I didn't know the context, that would worry me a bit too." Read article...