It's not like I don't have a gazillion Important Things to Do tonight, but I've been spending many hours doing the silliest of online surfing. In my quest to track down the specific quote which serves as the epigraph of Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis ("a rat became the unit of currency," from Polish writer Zbigniew Herbert--regular H&V readers will know why this is on my mind right now), I came across a review of the novel which in turn led me to discover Titans of Finance, a comic book based on the biographies of various real-life tychoons. Haven't read it yet, but I'm tempted to order a copy. After all, I find (many but not all) men in business suits only slightly less sexy than superheroes, even when their personal politics repulse me.
Anybody out there ever read this thing? If you follow links at the site, you'll find examples of the comic strip it's drawn from.
How the Voyager Golden Record happened (and no, The Beatles actually weren't on the wishlist)
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 2, the first of
the two spacecraft that carried the Golden Record on a grand tour of the
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