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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer | Books | The Guardian
"More disturbingly, [Jonathan Safran Foer] only considers a world where people are in a position to make choices about what they eat. Eating Animals is written by a well-educated, well-fed person for well-educated, well-fed readers. Nor does he contextualise his argument. It never ranges beyond the confines of America. He doesn't seriously examine why people might want to, or have to eat meat, or what meat means to individuals or societies. He proposes no solutions other than mass conversion to vegetarianism, although it doesn't seem to occur to him that the damage done by factory farming doesn't begin and end with animals but embraces all foods."
guardian  uk  food  books  reviews  matthewfort  jonathansafranfoer  farming  vegetarian 
march 2010 by ohskylab
Steven Poole: Thesaurosis
"What differentiates this thesaurus from any other is that it is, as the title announces, historical: combining the data of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Thesaurus of Old English, it presents meanings in chronological order, noting when terms first appeared, often when they disappeared, or whether they were one-shots, lovely doomed coinages such as “moonling”."
english  thesaurus  language  words  reviews 
february 2010 by ohskylab
BENGE: Twenty Systems (Expanding Records) | themilkfactory
"With Twenty Systems, Edwards creates twenty tracks, one for each of the years between 1968 and 1987, and each built using just one synthesizer. The list of makes, Moog, ARP, Roland, Serge, Korg, Yamaha, Oberheim, and models used is likely to send shivers down the spines of many aficionados, and the accompanying liner notes provide much needed information on each machine."
music  synthesizers  audio  history  benge  reviews  top 
september 2009 by ohskylab
Review: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton | Books | The Guardian
"When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others."
quotes  books  reviews  work  career  alaindebotton  guardian 
april 2009 by ohskylab
Dummy
Ex-Jockey Slut types in new online music magazine venture.
music  magazine  jockeyslut  uk  culture  media  reviews  blog 
february 2009 by ohskylab
Tejada's latest a techno essential - Leisure - Burton Mail
Review of John Tejada's Fabric 44 from the, er, Burton Mail. Cool! "Seamlessly mixed and constantly building, Tejada has turned in a stunningly good set combining his own innovative productions with tracks from the likes of Orbital, Spooky and LJ Kruzer."
music  unchartedaudio  reviews  ljkruzer  fabric  johntejada 
december 2008 by ohskylab
ireallylovemusic › fabric 44 - john tejada
"Quite simply, john tejada has crafted an absolute stormer 75 minute mix of straight up techno that ebbs and flows perfectly. Ranging from detroit styled house, through to harder edged acid via some serene ambience, the mix is an excellent way to catch up when you don’t have the insider knowledge, nor budget to keep up with the more interesting, and dare i say it, somewhat exclusive, corners of the techno world."
music  fabric  unchartedaudio  johntejada  mixes  reviews  plaid  ljkruzer 
november 2008 by ohskylab
How not to review music « doctorvee
"I think I will give the track-by-track review a miss — in case I end up sounding like this." Crispy Godber, a star in the making.
music  reviews  video 
november 2008 by ohskylab
Urbanpath - Nice things in London
"A directory of the best places in London, as decided by you. You can review and rate everything on urbanpath, and you can tell us about nice things in London we've missed."
london  reviews  top 
june 2005 by ohskylab

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