The New York Times’ secret reference trick

I was reading the latest about Sanjaya on the New York Times’ site and accidentally stumbled on a little-known feature:

Double-click on any word in an article, and voila! A new window appears with a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia entry about the word.

The Times does explain this little trick, but it’s buried all the way at the bottom of every article below a bunch of ads. It’s very easy to miss, but now you know.

It works in most browsers, but I couldn’t get it to work in Safari. Sorry, Steve.