February, 2009
Judd Gregg = Judge Dredd
Fri, 2009-02-13 00:38 — KonstantinToday's headlines are very easy to misread. That is all.
A Hebrew calque from Latin
Fri, 2009-02-06 10:39 — KonstantinThe word lens comes from the Latin word lentil. The optical tool was named thus because the shape of a concave lens is similar to that of a lentil seed.
In Hebrew, the meaning of lens was added to the word עֲדָשָׁה, which has meant lentil since Biblical Hebrew.
(Does anyone know if the scientific usage of עדשה was started with the creation of modern Hebrew, or sometime earlier?)
The Jews of medieval Spain were avid golfers
Thu, 2009-02-05 16:55 — Konstantin
Or so says Google Book Search. An online preview of Jane S. Gerber's The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience reveals an uncannily golf-centric account of Jewish life on the Iberian peninsula.
I guess all Tomás de Torquemada really wanted was to learn How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time.
Bud Light, brought to you by Coke Zero
Mon, 2009-02-02 00:21 — KonstantinHulu.com has the full collection of this year's Super Bowl ads. The catch? Each ad video is shown with a 5-second preroll commercial.
Ads sponsoring ads. Who'd have thought?
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