Warriors of the Unknown
Warriors of the Unknown is an animated series featuring gamers whose characters jump from server to server in pursuit of a mysterious hacker while mixing up game genres. You can sample the first episode here.
RIP, Edward Hardwicke
British actor Edward Hardwicke has died. He is best known as Dr. John Watson in the 1980s and 1990s BBC Sherlock Holmes series co-starring Jeremy Brett as Holmes.The Guardian has an obituary and here is a video of Hardwicke and Brett interviewed about playing Watson and Holmes.
Black Hollywood
The 1984 documentary, Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema, is available, for free and in its entirety, online. Solid. (via Jay Potts of World of Hurt)
Fun with Mad Men’s Jon Hamm
Lexcorp needs a bailout and a yeti needs a lift.
Existential Star Wars
Star Wars by Sartre. (Thanks, Michelle!)
Prisoners of Gravity
Straight from the secret vaults of TVOntario, it’s Commander Rick and Prisoners of Gravity, a Canadian tv show dedicated to speculative fiction and featuring a lot of Bakka-Phoenix, Canada’s oldest science fiction bookstore and managed by the Gutter’s Chris Szego.
The Cultural Gutter 