March 7, 2009  Ötzi, the Iceman, is ready for his closeup.
Tattoos and all.  (Via Metafilter.)   EDH said...  Wow, silence
so far. Okay, so I'll bring it up. Over in the comments at
Metafilter, the issue of Otzi's "junk" came up.  A link to a
report in Time magazine said:  The mistreated corpse, clothed
from the waist down when discovered, was now stark naked except
for remnants of a boot dangling from his right foot, and bore
the marks of his crude recovery. He had also been castrated; it
turned out that his penis and most of his scrotum were missing,
perhaps accidentally broken off during his recovery and taken by
a visitor. Flown out by helicopter and transferred to a hearse,
the Iceman and his possessions were transported to Innsbruck.
There, one final indignity awaited the body. It became the
centerpiece of a press conference in the local morgue. While the
Iceman and his tattered belongings lay on a dissecting table
under blazing klieg lights, reporters and other hangers-on
joked, smoked and even touche