Farrah Fawcett, R.I.P.
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Actress and eternal ’70s sex symbol Farrah Fawcett died this morning at the age of 62 after a lengthy about with cancer. I wasn’t going to post this sad news — I’m sure you’ve heard it elsewhere by sites with less Transformers-based profanity — until many readers chimed in with Ms. Fawcett’s often overlooked career in nerdery, and I’m not referring to Charlie’s Angels. She starred in both the little-known sci-fi show Saturn 3 (seen on right) as well as the Logan’s Run TV series, as well as a few episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man (she actually was married to the Six Million Dollar Man, Lee Majors, for a little while. Also, she was so damn popular in the ’70s that Mego made a doll of her — not her Charlie’s Angels character or anything, just her. This isn’t the stuff that will make into other articles and memorials. But I’m happy to help others remember a part of her legacy that others will forget.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.