Even without Hi-Lo, Jamaica Plain residents can still shop local

By adamg on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 5:07pm

Merchants in Jamaica Plain's three main shopping districts - Egleston and Jackson/Hyde squares and Centre/South streets - hope to drive the point home on Saturday with a daylong celebration of Jamaica Plain shopping that will feature food sampling, cooking demos and one-day discounts.

Jamaica Plain has some 20 bodegas and other stores that sell all sorts of food, from organic to Caribbean - and employ more than 100 people, according to Betsy Cowan, director of Egleston Square Main Street, one of the groups behind the "JP Shopping Spree." All are accessible via the 48 Jamaica Plain loop bus.

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Added bonus

By spenser on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 5:42pm.

The cashiers at these stores won't make you feel like an asshole because you forgot your reusable grocery bags.

Burdensome off-site scripts

By anon on Mon, 04/11/2011 - 9:23pm.

adamg, Love your site. But the proliferation of off-site scripts might drive me away. I stopped reading Steve Garfield's site, not only because of his goofy face shot, but also because he has fifteen million off-site scripts.

Right now you've got scripts from universalhub.com, google-analytics.com, bostonblogs.com (these three I've got no problem with), plus facebook.net, quantserv.com, googlesyndication.com, and eversave.com. Lord knows what other off-site scripts these others will pull in.

Too many more and I'm out of here.

Cheers.

Good point - and some potential solutions

By Jeff F on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 11:09am.

If you are using a mozzilla-based browser (Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, et al), I highly recommend using the widely praised NoScript.

In Opera you can get a bit of this sort of functionality by using this script.

For Chrome, there's now NotScripts. (not tried personally).

Omniweb has this fuctionality built-in, check out the prefs.

I recommend PithHelmet for Safari users.

IE 8 users? there's some protection from script-based attacks with its anti-XSS filters, but honestly there's very little else. IE9? Haven't tried it out yet.

What's an off-site script

By anon on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 5:29pm.

No really, what is it? Is it bad? I did a little Google action on it, but I don't really get it...oh wait this is about HI-LO right?

I could eliminate one of those if I weren't so damn lazy

By adamg on Tue, 04/12/2011 - 7:21pm.

The googlesyndication one is the second squarish ad unit on the right side of pages. I should start running it through my ad server on bostonblogs.com rather than directly through Google. That would eliminate one of the "external" calls, since the ad software I use lets you grab several ads at once with just one call.

Quantcast is another page-metrics service, sort of like Google Analytics, but the data is publicly accessible (see http://www.quantcast.com/universalhub.com ); it's theoretically handy in attracting advertisers who want to see a site's demographics and stuff. Facebook.net is the "like" button you'll see on every story page; eversave.com is an ad that often runs on the top right side of pages.

I don't have any plans to add more.