Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-16-2009

• An Open Letter to John C. Wright
  Hal Duncan responds to the craziness of the right wing homophobia which caused recent discussion in certain parts of the infosphere.
  (tags: culture blog homophobia philosophy rhetoric empathy politics)

Julie is so mean to me

She won't let me have this wallpaper!

From e_apraksina

A brief, odd, history of video games

Now that was odd. Especially the end.

I didn't see the original

But I know a fair number of you raved about it at the time.

They've made a sequel to The Descent:

(cheers to cavalorn)

Forthcoming celebrations.

It is my birthday on Friday.

On Saturday night, I shall be at Absynth, dancing to "electronic, industrial, and retro-goth music styles with an emphasis on rhythmic noise", djed by octopoid_horror amongst others.  Playlist from previous events here

It's on a boat, which makes it even more awesome.

Should any of you wish to come along, it'd be great to see you there.

Showing that the pentatonic scale is universal

from sterlingspider.