​The Internet is abuzz about this Gizmodo post from yesterday, in which writer Alyssa Bereznak went out on an OkCupid date with a guy who, horror of horrors, turned out to be a "Magic: The Gathering" player. And not just any player, but former world champion Jon Finkel. (For those of you who don't know, Magic is the game that the kids who weren't into Dungeons & Dragons but seemed like they would have been were playing in high school. It has wizards and stuff.).

Bereznak was horrified. "This guy isn't just some professional who dabbled in card games at a tender age. He's Jon motherfucking Finkel, the man who is so widely revered in the game of Magic that he's been immortalized in his own playing card." (Emphasis hers). And everyone else is horrified that she would humiliate some dude from OkCupid on the Internet for all to see; as of right now, the post has over 1300 comments, most of them indignant.

As for Finkel himself? He's taking it pretty well, having started a question-and-answer session on Reddit.

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​Yesterday, the lonely dudes of 4chan enacted their plan to prank the lonely dudes of OkCupid. The trolls had set up fake OkCupid accounts depicting cute single women, with which they'd attempted to lure "forever alone" guys on the dating site to Times Square, where they would all collectively be stood up. The idea was to create an "involuntary flashmob" of confused nerds while the 4channers, who are really cool and socially well-adjusted people, would laugh at them.

Go-time was last night at 7:30! How did things play out?

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​Here is your justification for being a slacker this chilly Friday. If you are a Type-A agro nerd, you're going to experience greater levels of stress and strain than the totally "whatever" Type C-/D+, according to a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology, says the Wall Street Journal. And if you fail to face problems head-on, instead taking a nap or maybe just chilling on the couch and watching Law and Order reruns, you may "actually do better with life conflict, and seem to have more energy, says the study."

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Pictures of health.

​Perhaps it seems intuitive, but that's probably because you, too, were the captain of your high school's debate team, or the leading AV squad member, or that guy with the tape on his glasses who was super-awesome at trigonometry. Science has said it, though, and it must be so! If you got As in high school, you're likely to be a healthier adult.

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​It has recently been rumored that TechCrunch CEO Michael Arrington -- a tech/media entrepreneur who takes the whole "bustin' down doors" bravado pretty seriously -- is in acquisition talks with media giant AOL, Om Malik at GigaOm reports, noting that the deal "is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart yet."

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Would you hug Rob Lathan?

​New Yorkers have a reputation for a lot of things; spontaneous hugging is not among them. The huggability index, low throughout Manhattan, nosedives even farther around Wall Street, where crisp business suits make hugging a difficult maneuver and no one wants to hug each other anyway (the recession is the ultimate hug-libido killer). Nonetheless, one stalwart comedian, Rob Lathan, set out to test his hugs in the Financial District. Think he had any luck?

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A considered iPhone fix, not unreasonable.

​So, apparently, those new iPhones were released basically broken! Or with bad antennae that make you have to hold your phone a certain way, kind of like the way Apple only wants you to use only their applications on their phone. Now they want to control your hands! But their plot to do so didn't work, because Americans were pissed at the company's arrogance. And today, during a press conference, Steve Jobs announced his solution:

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