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Greetings, denizens of io9! I'm Rob Bricken, a new Senior Editor here (I'm the one on the right, for the record). You may or may not know me as the former editor of ToplessRobot.com, which you may or may not have read, and which you may or may not have liked. If you did like it and/or me - hey, thanks.

Today — after nearly three years of editorial service — is my last official day with io9.

Great news for anyone who reads io9 from a mobile, iPad, or biological implant device! Our kickass tech team created spiffy new designs for io9 mobile. Yes, check it right now on your smart nipple! Doesn't it look great?

I should first explain the radio silence of the last couple of weeks. We'd wanted to respond to feedback not with promises of future improvements but with actual fixes. So that's what I'm doing now—but I regret any impression that we weren't listening. Without more verbiage, the main changes you wanted . . .

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Felicisalutes, citizens! While you're out crisping in the solar wastes, playing Beach Bunker Bingo, and writing angry letters to the SyFy network for dissing Rod Serling, we here at io9 will be paying tribute to our undying robot president masters.

Dear io9ers, as you may have noticed, images are on the fritz this Saturday (and we apologize for the 8,000 copies of the Al Gore post). Our tech team is on it; Box thanks you for your patience.