The Prophesied Arrival of Nerd Barbie Draws Near
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It’s been many, many months since Mattel announced “nerds win,” a.k.a. that Barbie’s next career would be in computer engineering. Well, there’s still some time before she gets released, but I thought you folks would want to know that Computer Engineer Barbie is now available for pre-order — she’s currently $13 at Amazon, and due to be released on December 15th, just in time for Christmas (with the proper shipping option, at any rate). Obviously, this would be a stellar gift for an young geek girl; I’m thinking of picking one up just in case there’s a young geek girl in my life later. I mean, chances are Barbie’s next 24 professions will be shit like unicorn wrangler and cosmetics company receptionist, anyways. Gotta get this one while the gettin’s good.
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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.