It's Friday and everybody's working for the weekend. Since you're trying to punch through the last work of the week, I decided to grab the best of the web's love and relationships content for ya. Here goes:

Over at Lemondrop, the ladies discuss sex with nerds. Specifically, they break down 7 types of nerds, why to sex them and how to bag them. I'm not 100 percent sure they used the term "nerd" accurately unless it just means someone who is really into something.

The Frisky wants you to get some tail, they really do. And they don't want … Read More

Not to judge (or stereotype), but there is some strange love going down in the nation of Japan. Per a great piece in the New York Times magazine, some Japanese guys (and, like, one girl) have decided that love and sex and romance with real, live people is not worth the effort. I heard that (kidding).

Essentially, these young men (and, like, one woman) are an offshoot of the "otaku" subculture and really love cartoons (even if it's not cold). While "otaku" denotes a group of people who are obsessed with anime, comics and video game characters, the "moe" … Read More

Earlier today we posted an article from YourTango, written by former Maxim editor, Keith Blanchard, about the nine things he learned about women from working at the magazine. Well, I also worked at Maxim, and learned a few things too—about men, that is. Most of my lessons were gained from working with a predominantly male staff—in the editorial department, I was one of just two or three females over the course of two-and-a-half years. Here are seven things that have stayed with me…1. They are ALL nerds.When I first went to work at Maxim, I was nervous. I was … Read More

Do you consider yourself one super smart lady? Do you lie awake at night analyzing your brilliance? Do you spend those same nights alone? And although you're intelligent, you can't figure out why? Well, it turns out there's a scientific explanation (whoa, calm down there, smarty-pants) to it all. Well, kinda. It may not be so much scientific, but it does explain why you're not getting laid.

1. You spent too much time reading your biology books, rather than your biological needs growing up. In other words, while others were having sex in the high school parking lot, you … Read More

The most romantic place in the Milky Way for nerds this past Valentine's Day wasn't a local Dungeons and Dragons chapter, a renaissance festival reunion, or even dear old Mom's basement. No, benevolent earthlings, it was a place even more thrilling and exotic than all those magical locations put together. It was Detroit.

Over the weekend, the Detroit Science Center became the final frontier for nine of the America's nerdiest and most smitten couples. While there, the Trekkers/lovers proclaimed their intergalactic love, became formally engaged, and put their names in the hat to win an extravagant Star Trek -themed … Read More

"They're doing a Star Trek remake" is right up there with "They're giving Howie Mandel another show" in terms of something that you have to see to believe. But, I had to set my expression to stunned after seen the first trailers of the JJ Abrams prequel. It looks pretty sexy, action, cool. And I was even further relieved that they weren't pressured to let William Shatner bullrush his way into the picture (I have nothing against Bill Shatner, but it's a role that he would be silly to reprise, especially with a generation who knows him as James … Read More

Dare I press this point any further, but geek sex appeal is yet again in the media. My poor editor-in-chief, Carrie Sloan, received Darth Vader-quality death threats from nerds across the country for her take on the rise of the bespectacled beast in “Why Geeks Are the New Chic” (Don’t worry, she wasn’t in any real danger. They were harmless battle cries). Yet geek chic rears its cute-ugly head again with Violet Blue’s Open Source Sex column for the San Francisco Chronicle today. Entitled “So, I Seduced a Mac Geek”, Blue’s piece—a lurid … Read More

We’ve been getting loads of feedback on “Why Geeks Are the New Chic.” What exactly makes geeks the new chic? Here’s what you had to say in our most recent poll:

59% “Intellect. Stimulate my brain and the rest will follow.”

17% “It’s just a trend. Tomorrow, mailmen might be the new chic.”

17% “Muscle-bound is so overrated. Slight and sensitive is sexy, too.”

5% “Toby McGuire? Rainn Wilson? Hollywood hunks have all gone geek.”

Luckily, a large percentage of the Tango staff nabbed their own nerds—long before they were the new … Read More

It's standing room only at the one-year anniversary of the Secret Science Club in Brooklyn, New York. A crowd of about two hundred fills the dark downstairs lounge at Union Hall, a bi-level bar, and there are hip 20- and 30 somethings perched on every available surface, cradling PBRs or tonight's drink special—The Scientific Method.

At 8 P.M. the Superstar-of-Science Lecture will begin, but first tonight's host has a few announcements. "Same time, next month, geologist and NASA researcher Michael Rampino will be here to speak about mass extinctions and the history of life," he intones.

"Oooh, cool!" squeal four … Read More

From The Boston Globe By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Joyce Dales went through 30 guys on Match.com before she found her Jedi Knight in shining armor.

"I was either too strange or they weren't strange enough," she said.

Eventually, she found and married Jeff Dales, a "recovering lawyer" from Nottingham, N.H., who was geek enough to sprinkle Star Wars references into his first flirtatious e-mails.

But the long list of rejections, from teachers and lawyers and other professionals scattered among the millions of profiles she encountered on popular dating sites, showed Dales that people like her had a problem: Online dating … Read More