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  • The Official Friday Silliness Thread Explores Creepy Brain Stimulations (Did you see that???)

    09/22/2006 1:00:00 AM PDT · by sully777 · 340 replies · 9,038+ views
    Reuters ^ | September 22, 2006 | Sully777
    LONDON (Reuters) - Stimulating a certain area of the brain can produce a creepy feeling that someone is watching you when no one is, scientists said Wednesday. Swiss researchers made the discovery while evaluating a young woman for surgery to treat epilepsy...When they electrically stimulated the left temporoparietal junction in her brain, which is linked to self-other distinction and self-processing, she thought someone was standing behind her. If they repeated the stimulus while she leaned forward and grabbed her knees she had an unpleasant sensation that the shadowy figure was embracing her..."Our findings may be a step toward understanding the...
  • The Official Friday Silliness Thread Salutes Silly Songs Part Deux

    09/08/2006 2:58:35 AM PDT · by sully777 · 279 replies · 5,548+ views
    9-08-06 | Sully777
    Blimey It's Friday--Crack A Tube!!! Monty Python Bruce Sketch TMBG: Birdhouse In Your Soul
  • The Official Friday Silliness Thread--Dog Days of Summer

    08/11/2006 1:33:09 AM PDT · by sully777 · 257 replies · 5,476+ views
    Hubba Hubba: It's Friday!!!
  • Naked woman incident a blow to country's image [Malaysia]

    11/25/2005 8:28:11 PM PST · by ncountylee · 124 replies · 8,883+ views
    The Star ^ | November 26, 2005 | CHOI TUCK WO AND FREDERICK FERNANDEZ
    VALLETTA (Malta): The video clip showing a naked woman doing ear squats while watched by another woman in uniform has shamed the country, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. He said the incident had dealt a blow to the country’s image and pledged a thorough investigation into the issue. No party should attempt to conceal any facts that might be uncovered as a result of the investigations, said a visibly-upset Abdullah, who called Malaysian journalists here to give his comments before rushing off to attend the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting yesterday. Malaysian newspapers...