She might not be the most obvious fashion icon, but Leslie Winkle is sort of my hero. She's super intelligent, with a brilliant sense of humour and invariably gets one over the boys in the show. Despite being a nerdy scientist, she also gets her fair share of bedroom action. A sexually … [Read more...]
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Arrietty – Dork Review
Arrietty is the latest movie from famed, popular and acclaimed Japanese animators Studio Ghibli, with a screenplay by its beloved founder, Hayao Miyazaki. It is also an adaptation of English children’s book The Borrowers, so presents us with a wealth of tiny people, misunderstandings, persecution … [Read more...]
High End Bling For iPhones and iPads from Camaél Diamonds
This is for the geek who has - pretty much literally - everything. Need the perfect gift for somebody you love and have the cash to spend? These are probably the ultimate high-end geek gifts. Forget lasering a name onto the back of the iPhone -- what about encrusting the handset with … [Read more...]
Top Toys for Geeky Pets
The fact that one of my favourite websites (Think Geek) had an entire section dedicated to pets had passed me by until now. How did I miss this? I named my cat Professor Moriarty, of course I want geek themed toys for him. I lost most of an evening gleefully bookmarking my top items and I … [Read more...]
What if social media were a high school?
We've all got our favourite social media networks (Hi, I'm Emma and I'm a Twitteraholic). But what do our chosen sites say about us? The lovely Sarah Drinkwater (check out her lovely vintage-inspired blog The Enchanted Hunters) recently tweeted this infographic from Geekologie depicting how a … [Read more...]
Pentax and DC Comics make super hero camera
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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