Putting Moby Back in "Moby Dick"

The New York Times recently introduced a helpful new feature: they started highlighting certain words and phrases in their online articles so you can click on them and get more information. Today's review of "Southland Tales," for example, has eighteen clickable phrases, from "Republican Party" to "Janeane Garofalo." How they decide what should be clickable is beyond me: Sarah Michelle Gellar and an obscure movie based on a T. S. Elliot poem make the cut, but Bud Light and the Rock don't.

"Southland Tales" review

In their desperate search for meaning, though, they've name-checked "Moby Dick" twice this week . . . and both times had a click-through on the Moby part. Yes, to the bald vegetarian tune-generator.

Putting Moby Back in "Moby Dick" 1

Putting Moby Back in "Moby Dick" 2

Somebody needs to tell the Times that these creatures are very different: one is considered an aphrodisiac in Japan, and the other lives under the sea.