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Tron: Legacy Reconfigured Soundtrack  →

Speaking of Tron: Legacy, there’s a remix version of the original soundtrack and it just went on sale today. The original is, of course, fantastic (as Roger Ebert says, “It might not be safe to play this soundtrack in the car.”)

I’m listening to the Reconfigured album as I type this and it’s pretty great. Though it has hints of, and elements from, the original it is more like its own album than a “remix” of the original.

The Reconfigured album is available on iTunes or Amazon.com but is 2 bucks cheaper on Amazon right now.

Tron: Legacy Reconfigured Soundtrack

Designing the Terminal and More in ‘Tron: Legacy’  →

One of the visual effects artists who worked on Tron: Legacy:

I take representing digital culture in film very seriously in lieu of having grown up in a world of very badly researched user interface greeble. I cringed during the part in Hackers (1995) when a screen saver with extruded “equations” is used to signify that the hacker has reached some sort of neural flow or ambiguous destination. I cringed for Swordfish and Jurassic Park as well. I cheered when Trinity in The Matrix used nmap and ssh (and so did you).

Designing the Terminal and More in ‘Tron: Legacy’

The Daily ‘Shawn Today’ Episodes are Free to Everyone All This Week  →

There is now a dedicated landing page for Shawn Today. This page serves two purposes:

  • A lot of members want to tell their friends about Shawn Today but don’t know where to send them (since the RSS feed is private). This landing page is the perfect place to link to when talking or writing or tweeting about Shawn Today.

  • Many non-members have asked if I’d ever consider doing a trial membership in order to get a sample of what Shawn Today is like. By having some of my favorite past episodes available on this landing page it gives potential members a way to check out the broadcast.

Moreover, all this week the episodes of Shawn Today are freely available to everyone. It’s not just the members who have helped me get to this point and so I wanted to invite everyone into the behind-the-scenes fun that is the daily broadcast called Shawn Today.

If you head on over to the dedicated landing page you’ll find a few past episodes, today’s show, and it’s where the rest of this week’s episodes will be published to.

The Daily ‘Shawn Today’ Episodes are Free to Everyone All This Week

The Read & Trust Weekly Premium Newsletter  →

The Read & Trust network is a small band of writers who read and endorse one another’s writings. And we’ve just launched a weekly newsletter.

Each edition of the newsletter is a single, long-form piece written by one of the members. The content will be exclusive to the newsletter only, meaning each of us contributing are writing something unique just for the newsletter. A subscription is $5/month, and the first one goes out tomorrow.

The Read & Trust Weekly Premium Newsletter

‘Tron: Legacy’ Available on Tuesday  →

On opening night for Tron: Legacy some friends and I watched the original, then went to the theatre and saw the midnight showing in IMAX 3D. It was stunning.

This Tuesday it’ll be available, and right now you can pre-order on Amazon. There’s a version that comes with four (four!) formats of the movie: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray 3D, DVD, and digital. It’s only $30 right now (which is 40% off list), and it ships for free.

I don’t own too many movies in plastic media, but the visuals and audio on Tron: Legacy are so fantastic this is one film I certainly want to own on Blu-Ray. Pick it up via this link I’ll get a small kickback from Amazon.com.

‘Tron: Legacy’ Available on Tuesday

Create Flow with OmniFocus  →

I’d like to take a minute to thank Kourosh Dini for sponsoring the RSS feed this week in order to promote his amazing ebook, Create Flow with OmniFocus.

I switched to OmniFocus over six months ago, and though my natural disposition is towards apps which are simple and have a low barrier of entry, the more I use OmniFocus the more I love it. OmniFocus is an app worth learning and using because the return on the back end is well worth the investment.

I have my own copy of Create Flow with OmniFocus, and it is hands down one of the most exhaustive and detailed resources for OmniFocus that I have seen. If you are at all intimidated by OmniFocus, or even if you are already using it daily and want to learn more about it, I highly recommend Kourosh’s ebook.

Create Flow with OmniFocus

Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon  →

Frank Chimero:

Writing is chasing a question—an inquiry of the mind. Forward is better than every direction at once. It’s not really writing until you feel something; until you choke up at a thought, until you start fidgeting in your seat in excitement, until you feel the twinge of pain that happens when a thorn is pulled out of your side. Go back. Delete everything before you started fidgeting or crying or deflating like a balloon. Then, write some more.

Go write.

Tweeting and Writing and Deflating Like a Balloon