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Tonight, on a very special finding-the-thread edition of Webspotting:

• Books That Make You Dumb correlates and does not causate favorite books with SAT scores (via Facebook, which is the only way to do anything worthy of media attention these days if you’re not using Twitter.)
• Mastodon – Leviathan is a metal record based on Moby Dick. They fill the void in my life — for nerdy-topic thrash — created when Voivod took a dive in their later years. You have to give props to a drummer who will admit on camera that he was the one who approached a bunch of sweaty headbangers and used the phrase, “we should do an album based on Moby Dick.” Also, they do a practically note-for-note version of “The Call of Ktulu” which is not actually “The Call of Ktulu”.
• Connecting the “dumb” and “drummer” themes nicely: Metallica Shreds. Well, they used to.
• Finally, tonight: Moby Dick is my favorite book, and, by delightful co-incidence, is likewise Barack Obama’s favorite book. However, no one has yet done a bad painting of me, and many people have made bad paintings of Barack Obama.