"I know now how it feels / to be weakened like Achilles / with you always at my heels"

[larryhammer]

A friendly reminder: this New Years Day the works of W.B. Yeats go into the public domain.

The management requests that you use this knowledge only for good.

But since that makes a good excuse for a linkbacon post, here's some breakfast:

• A usual, the pretty Enceladus picture gets top billing around here. Because, dude -- Enceladus.
  
  
• A long and fascinating account of a sex extortion scandal at a Wisconsin high school. (via ... I forget)
  
  
• Now this is conceptual art that makes me think: invisible man paints himself to blend into the background. Pictures are fascinating and creepy in that good kind of way. (via)
  
  
• Trojan horse detected. (via)
  
  
• The wonders of the Mandelbulb, a 3D version of the Mandelbrot set. Scroll down for the eye-popping renderings. (via)
  
  
• A fascinating stress analysis of Choose Your Own Adventure novels through time. (via)
  
  
• Reasons why you, yes you, should learn to juggle. (via)
  
  
• And what would linkbacon be without the eggs of The Big Picture? Here's their selection of photos from a National Geographic contest. I'm especially fascinated by #17, though #25 makes me laugh.

Mmm -- bacon.

---L.

Comments

[janni.livejournal.com]

Yanno, I dimly remember the Ultima ending of UFO 54-40, and the difficulties of trying to find it ...

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I am unimpressed with the implicit shared homophobic sympathies present throughout that GQ article. Rape is still rape. We seriously don't need to make it extra-horrific because it happened to football players.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

And I wish I knew where I put my juggling clubs. *sigh*

[larryhammer]

Completely and entirely agree. I want to read the version that slants that part out.

---L.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

Sadly, Yeats will still be under copyright in the United States--our copyright terms are different for pre-1978 work.