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Pearl Clutching and Simonizing

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michellej 2.0: Why Menu and Hours?

Michelle Jones makes a compelling case for her app Menu and Hours, a Kickstarter project. Urban Spoon’s app is fine for traveling (user approval ratings), but Menu and Hours is an app that will make this townie’s life easier at home in Louisville on a regular basis (small print: as soon as the Android version is built):

michellej:

Some people have said that Menu and Hours is “reinventing the wheel” because apps like Urbanspoon already do what Menu and Hours is going to do and they do it for free. I, respectfully, disagree.

Menu and Hours is going to give you the contact info, the location, the hours and the menu…

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Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on Slate that independent bookstores are killing literacy.

Bookstores: a miracle. How do they work?

towirr:

A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d be good to see them articulated. But that’s not what this essay was. Let’s look at it. All of it. In detail.

I’ll be interjecting my thoughts into the text of the essay itself. I know that’s a pretty ungenerous way to go about it, but as you’ll see, Mr. Manjoo is kind of an asshat, so I’m not feeling generous.

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This wasn’t about competition. It wasn’t about who’s better and who’s worse … It was about music. And anyway, maybe Ronald would screw up. Maybe he’d screw up royally. Maybe the phone would ring. Maybe a fire alarm would go off somewhere. Maybe someone would drop a 10-megaton bomb on the roof. China had ‘em now, didn’t they?

Kevin Arnold, dick (Season 2, episode 7, “Coda”)

He really is.

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