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Neuroscientists have pretty much rubbished the idea, since most activities require complex engagement of both hemispheres of the brain. There's an article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-ledoux/why-the-right-brain-idea_b_206156.html

It's the most unlikely thing I've read. Mousavi is giving a speech now, apparently: RTRT: @leiyers: @bashix @lotfan Mousavi is giving a speech in jeyhoon street. He started by ene lelah and ena aleyhe rajeoon #iranelection

Reports from Tehran: From Enghelab to Azadi Sq. tow helicopters are pouring down boiling water over ppls head. #iranElection #gr881 minute ago from TwitterFox

Doesn't sound like a smart move...

Apparently ex-mayor of Tehran Gholamhossein Karbaschi is among the protestors.

"3.40pm: Mousavi supporters have set to a building in southern Tehran used by backers of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a witness told Reuters." Set to?

Although, to be fair, Lenin (from Lenin's Tomb) has called them out on this more than once: "Finally, it was inferred that the workers were socially conservative and had little time for middle class people who wanted more liberal legislation. This picture, while touching on important truths, is...

Fascinating comments by Reza Negarestani: "The idea that Ahmadienejad is backed by the poor and rural supporters seems to have become an axiomatic basis of recent discussions among western intellectuals. This is however an extremely hypothetical assumption which has not been properly...

So was I. Think I read all of them during my teenage years, except the new one... Hard-boiled Wonderland was probably my pick. I'm still a fan, of course, but haven't re-read any of them in the last couple of years. Not sure why, perhaps because everything just gets so disappointing. Anyway, I...

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is topical, and brilliant.

Can anyone see a recount being helpful? It's difficult to see how any sort of counting error would account for such discrepancies... If Ahmadinejad is once again the winner, then the protesters will still be unsatisfied, but if Moussavi were proven the winner, too many powerful heads would have...

I love that book. It's the only book I've read then immediately read again. I'm not really a re-reader. It strikes me that if I were to make a list, most of the books would be what I read when I was fifteen or sixteen... Dostoevsky, Camus, Kurt Vonnegut, Murakami, Marquez etc. A lot of people...

The best acid track of the last few years: (Also the best deep house track)

Interesting rebuke to the left on the infinite thought blog: http://www.cinestatic.com/infinitethought/2009/06/why-are-iranians-dreaming-again.asp Also some points about technology worth quoting (which seem to back up Padraig's position): "There is no doubt that new media and technologies...

Is I've Lost Control the first track to use a 303 lead? Came out a year before the better known Acid Trax: @dave -- obviously reminded you of DBX: Losin' Control -- Not that there's a 303 in it. But it's too good not to post.

You're wrong about that! Twitter doesn't resolve any issues. But would there be any issues in the first place w/o it? Issues don't exist if there is consensus. The ability of networks to create affects - another good question - but I can only state the obvious, I for instance had zero feelings...

A spontaneous rhizomatic network with enough subversive potential to create serious rupture(s) has already emerged. It will not succumb. It cannot be reassimilated. The system is broken. I hope ;P Yeah, I think I was throwing around a few phrases there in a bid to be optimistic. But still...

er, I think you're confusing 3 Body with me here, which is understandable, given the numbers thing. But feel free to PM.

The plus point is that now the efficacy of the global communication network has been proven, even if nothing comes of this right now - which looks likely - alliances have been formed, and pathways alighted for sustained emancipatory pressure; which is the major difference between this and say...

This Change_For_Iran feed is shocking: "there is no need to hide their names anymore Mobina Ehtrami, Fateme Borati, Kasra Sharafi, Kambiz Shoaee & Mohsen Imani; all killed by ansar"