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Steven Spielberg’s Hook is, for the most part, a really uninteresting sort of Hollywood version of Peter Pan. But it has one great moment: Wendy Darling, grown old and gray, stands at the landing of her stairs, looks down from the darkness at Peter Pan — grown up and forgetful of who he really is […]

via Warren: Arthur C Clarke has died at the age of 90. He was a remarkable thinker and remarkable man who, as much as anyone, helped to shape the latter half of the 20th century, both as a visionary sci-fi writer and as a futurist. Cheers, mate. Thanks for all the good ideas.

…was an awesome 80s style theme song.

…was the best one yet, and the last twenty minutes were some of the best TV I’ve seen in years. The scene where Cromartie kills an entire SWAT team is brilliant — an underwater shot from the pool in Cromartie’s apartment complex where you just hear screaming and see body after body splashing into the […]

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. — Marshall McLuhan We are all of us in so much trouble.