Here is some interesting geek news.

‘Moby-Dick’ to be rewritten in emoticons

Call me astonished.

But Fred Berenson, a clearly fascinating research associate at New York University, has managed to gain sufficient funding to attempt a project that I feel sure none of you has contemplated.

For Berenson has decided to rewrite a veritable whale of a book, “Moby-Dick,” entirely in emoticons.

This enterprising cove used Kickstarter to impress those who might have money to drown in such an eccentric quest.

He describes, with quite fetching enthusiasm, how he intends to turn all 6,438 sentences of the great Herman Melville opus into Japanese Emoji, rather picturesque emoticons that are on most handsets in Japan.

Helpfully, Berenson reminds those interested that you can hack your iPhone in America in order to obtain these rather cutesome works of art.

The largest portion of the raised funds will go to pay for the translation. Berenson will be using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to get three different translations of every sentence. These translations will then be put to a vote, the winning sentence being included in the magnum opus.