Shame on me, I missed the previously-referenced gear-up of Elizabeth Spier’s Dealbreaker.com. The site’s been humming along for a bit over a week now.

It looks pretty slick, and Spiers is delivering on her promise to deliver snark-tinged spins on business news (with this item on funding opportunities in the porn business as a prime example). No question, it fills a sorely-needed niche in the financial humor ouvre (sorry, Motley Fool).

Still, I wish the site had retained its original, pre-launch look:

And the placeholder site for Dealbreaker.com certainly holds promise (be sure to right-click and “Select All”, like it suggests at the top of the page). It directly mimics a cover page from a standard SEC financial filing, which I’ve seen plenty of over the past several years. Which perhaps explains why I can find such rich material in them.

Sure, it would have been hell to work around such a layout, and advertising space would have been tricky. But I liked it.