I was interested in Wall Street 2 when I heard they were making it. But after seeing the trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, I can’t wait for this thing to come out.
Someone reminded me I once said, “Greed is good.” Now it seems it’s legal.
Update: The song used in the trailer, which totally makes it, appears to be an instrumental version of Ricochet by Shiny Toy Guns
Go get some!
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As has been widely reported, author J.D. Salinger passed away yesterday at his home in the great state of New Hampshire, at the age of 91. Best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger was also known for his reclusiveness.
Unfortunately the respect that Salinger has garnered for his work didn’t extend to the chuckleheads that edit Wikipedia. This afternoon his entry read simply “He dead.”
(hat tip to jkeith)
Hilarious videos of what it’s like to be a designer sometimes.
Caution: While hilarious, the language in these videos is not at all safe for work.
Rarely does a website come along that changes how people use the web and how websites are designed. This week it seems we have been blessed with two.
The first and most significant, in my mind, is TheSixtyOne. The home page is plain, and appropriately asks “ready?” Because what you see after you enter is a magnificent departure from what we’re all used to. At it’s core it’s a great way to discover a diverse collection of new music but now it’s got a whole new skin.
The second is from a well-respected veteran of the web, Simon Collison. Colly, as he’s known, has completed what was a lengthy and arduous exploration of what a personal website can be. The result is inspiring.
The credits at the end of Sherlock Holmes were beautifully designed and one of the best parts of the movie. Behind the fight sequences, of course. The Art of the Title Sequence goes into a great deal of detail as to how they were produced and has plenty of video clips as well.
[via Kottke]
The actual address is sure to pale in comparison to this fake one. Boom!
OK, I know what you’re thinking: Afghanistan. That war’s not going so well. Kind of a quagmire. So what do you do? You get a better strategy. The 2010 Afghanistan war is newer, better, and cheaper. Want to see what it looks like?
(DELIRIOUS SCREAMS.)
OK, let me call up iMovie. See those drones? They were doing OK, taking out some of the top guys in the Taliban. That just wasn’t good enough. We took them apart, totally redesigned them. They’ve got multi-touch, 3G, and augmented reality terrorist locators. Starting tonight, you can buy them on apple.gov. Just kidding. We wouldn’t do that. But we could do that, if we wanted to. And boom—just like that, we’ve changed warfare. How do you like that, America?
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Cameron Moll has been working on a new letterpress poster and it sounds like it’s nearly ready. His first series of posters, based on the Salt Lake Temple, wasn’t really my thing. But just like those, this one looks absolutely stunning. You can go ahead and pre-order one in his store, as I will be doing, before it’s released in March. He’s also put together a video showing some of the process. It’s quite amazing. I honestly wouldn’t even know where to start with something like that.
I’m sure this won’t go over well, but TechCrunch appears to have been hacked. I wonder if it’s at all related to all of the issues Network Solutions has been having. Probably not since TechCrunch is on Rackspace servers, but you never know.
Part of me feels like this kind of defeats the purpose of Tweets and Facebook messages. But if you’re so inclined, you can use Later Bro to schedule future Tweets and Facebook messages.
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