Polaroid is releasing a digital camera later this year that will take pictures AND immediately spit out 2 x 3 inch prints directly from the camera. In true Polaroid style, the images take up to a minute to show up on the paper.

Welcome back to the days of waving fresh photos to make the images show up faster. picked by Wingnut 3 hours ago

It's a classic image from every youngster's science textbook: a cutaway image of Earth's interior. The brown crust is paper-thin; the warm mantle orange, the seething liquid of the outer core yellow, and at the center the core, a ball of solid, red-hot iron. Now a new theory aims to rewrite it all by proposing the seemingly impossible: Earth has not one but two inner cores. picked by AutumnLotus 4 hours ago

A young woman was stripped naked, gagged to silence her screams, blindfolded,tied to a pole, covered in petrol and set fire to after being accused of (amongst other things) sorcery in Papua New Guinea, a country in the grip of fear of, amongst other things, AIDS and superstition.

We've a long way to go yet. picked by pocksucket 5 hours ago

Craig Buford of Fort Worth was fatally shot in the back in 1973. Unfortunately that didn't fit his plans to do manly stuff like driving buses and trucks so he didn't give in and die until December of last year. picked by pocksucket 6 hours ago

Every other news agency on the planet is going for the UFO angle on this story, but there was one lone reported sighting of a tentacle, so that seals the FSM deal for me.

Actual story: Wind turbine has broken, no-one knows why as investigations have yet to be concluded and some people saw some lights. picked by pocksucket 6 hours ago

Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week. But unlike many savants, he's able to tell us how he does it. picked by drogue 16 hours ago

I couldn't make this up if I tried. For more information about yummy bacon and its immortality-granting powers, see this thread. picked by RowanGrey 16 hours ago

Would it work though? What do you think?

EDIT:He actually redid first three movies and has other revisions on his site. picked by nesbyniccolo 17 hours ago

A deaf teenager has won a landmark discrimination case after she was humiliated on sports day because she could not hear announcements telling her to stop running. picked by mattgup 18 hours ago

On January 9th - just 11 days before his inauguration - One of the original legal challenges to President-elect Barack Obama's eligibility for office to reach the U.S. Supreme Court now has been scheduled for a conference, a meeting at which the justices discuss its merits and whether to step into the fray.

(follow up to this) picked by IcePigs 19 hours ago

A very sweet and inspiring outlook on life. picked by chez 19 hours ago

The U.S. Army is apologizing to thousands of Army families who received letters beginning "Dear John Doe" after losing a loved one in Iraq or Afghanistan. picked by hypnotode 19 hours ago

In the last minutes of the Bush administration he's still up to no good. The last-minute repeal of the stream buffer zone rule - an environmental law that, since 1983, has prohibited surface coal mining activities within 100 feet of flowing streams. picked by bingo 20 hours ago

Love Steampunk? Adore Legos? Steampunk and LEGO? It may seem an incongruous combination being that LEGO is plastic and Steampunk harkens back to the age of brass & wood. picked by Bornbad 20 hours ago

WASHINGTON—In an alarming development with wide-reaching implications for America's safety, Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff and CIA Director Michael Hayden issued a joint report Monday warning that the next 9/11 could in fact occur on a different date. picked by Chamale 20 hours ago

A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation. picked by suebe 21 hours ago

A New York doctor is demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her while they were still on good terms. picked by Bornbad 22 hours ago

An important read if you have kids and shop second hand stores for clothes and toys. picked by Marli 22 hours ago

Your school tax dollars at work. picked by Moe 22 hours ago

Bandit the beagle took such a shine to the new kitten her owners brought home that she even started nursing him... even though she'd never been pregnant. picked by Wingnut 23 hours ago

A brazen young harbor seal found a seafood feast today after she broke into a state fish hatchery in Sandwich and dined on an all-you-can-eat trout buffet before being nabbed and returned to the sea. picked by mattgup 1 day ago

Larry Flynt and "Girls Gone Wild" king Joe Francis head to Washington to seek a bailout for the struggling Porn Industry. "With all this economic misery and people losing all that money, sex is the farthest thing from their mind." picked by mattgup 1 day ago

after record breaking 18 pup litter! picked by tigertony 1 day ago

This time it is a real estate guru in Chicago. Shot himself to death in his Jaguar. We are starting to mirror situations in the Great Depression more and more each day. picked by Moe 1 day ago

Jake Loniak is a college junior; he's also the inventor of one of the most innovative concept vehicles we've seen in ages. Inside: the electric exoskeleton motorcycle and an exclusive video of the beast in action. Update on this post. picked by AutumnLotus 1 day ago