For fans of 70s DC Entertainment stars everywhere, Pentax and Warner have teamed up to add new skins to their Pentax Optio RS1500 camera. Pentax's standard Optio RS1500 comes with 10 ready-made skins, which sit behind a clip-on plastic cover and can be switched at will. The camera also arrives … [Read more...]
Primeval: Series 5, Episode 3 – Dork Review
So, in last week’s review of Primeval, I was pleased they still referenced the Emily character, since I liked her and thought it was a shame she was written out last series. I should have realised, with the level of subtlety Primeval operates at, the casual mention meant we’d be seeing her shortly. … [Read more...]
X-Men: First Class – Dork Review
After the twin terrors of X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the Marvel mutants turn to their “How to continue your sputtering franchise” guidebook and bring out a prequel. But, wisely, instead of banging it out on a budget, they’ve brought in director Matthew Vaughn and writer Jane … [Read more...]
Springwatch and Doctor Who: What We’ve Been Watching
I was on the damp, crowded Northern line this evening with a book in my hand. That book was BirdwatchingWatching by Alex Horne. And keeping the page in that book was a sheet of as yet unused Doctor Who stickers. On that tube, I was looked at with pity. Here, at Dork Adore, I know I am among … [Read more...]
Dork Fashion Icons: Velma Dinkley
We all know that 'geek chic' is terribly fashionable right now, what with the world and his wife sporting oversized glasses and deliberately terrible haircuts. But what about the real geek fashion icons; the ones who are cool because they are so nerdy, and not in an uber fashionable way? Well, my … [Read more...]
Top tips for a Zen-like computing experience
Whenever we invent time-saving devices we find a way to make them take up time. The computer was supposed to make us more productive, and yet we're all still working long hours and staring at download status bars slowly installing updates. But if you bring a little slow life to your work life, … [Read more...]
Doctor Who: A Good Man Goes To War – Dork Review
This is the mid-series finale of Doctor Who. Promising us a resolution to last week’s uber-cliffhanger, not to mention the River Song mystery that has run for literally years, it would be helpful if this was brilliant, wouldn’t it? After teasing us with subplots for so many weeks, neutering the … [Read more...]
Five alternative social networks
Hanging out on Facebook, Twitter and Last.fm has its place (usually the workplace), but just as we all have different friendship groups for different real world activities, social networks serve different purposes online. If you want to get away from the mainstream and go somewhere where … [Read more...]
Nursery Rhymes for the iPad
It might make you cringe at first -- the idea that we're now so phone-fixated we even do our parenting remotely -- but once you get over that initial gut response, you'll probably realise there are plenty of times when you'd quite like to read stories to your child when you're not actually there to … [Read more...]
Primeval: Series 5, Episode 2 review
This week, after a surprisingly reasonable series premiere, Primeval heads underwater for a claustrophobic showdown with both the usual dinosaurs and, surprisingly, the fear and intolerance of humanity as well. A thematic crossover with the most recent episode of Doctor Who? And was it any good? … [Read more...]
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