Gigabiting
where food meets culture and technology
Gigabiting
- Location
- Philadelphia, US
- Birthday
- September 28
- Bio
- Having fulfilled one of my life's ambitions by starting a food blog, I have turned my attention to another- figuring out how to make a living with the blog.
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you can visit me at www.gigabiting.com
MY RECENT POSTS
- Facial Recognition
Advertising: They’re
watching you watching them
May 21, 2012 01:22PM - Campaign Swag: It’s Obama by
a Landslide
May 18, 2012 12:09PM - Should You Be Buying Your
Groceries Online?
May 16, 2012 12:10PM - Intermarriage and the Price of
Skirt Steak
May 15, 2012 02:42PM - Shameless Act of Product
Placement: James Bond Will
Drink Heineken
May 14, 2012 01:31PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Robin,
Little-k
nown Gigabiting trivia- 1/2
Canadian-
Toronto/father's
side.”
July 30, 2010 04:00PM - “I remember an incident
when my young son came home
baffled by
the treatment he
ha…”
July 30, 2010 02:16PM - “Linda,
I am
well-versed on the mighty
Timbit!
And personally, I
am totally
pulling…”
July 30, 2010 02:12PM - “How about a ski trip
instead?”
July 28, 2010 03:12PM - “is it too late to wish
you a bon voyage?”
July 28, 2010 12:54PM
Gigabiting's Links
- Blogroll
- Gigabiting home page
MAY 21, 2012 1:22PM
Facial Recognition Advertising: They’re watching you watching them
image via CEPro Facial recognition: once the stuff of
science fiction and high-tech crime fighting, it’s become the
latest tool in marketing. Picture this: you walk by a digital sign
in the supermarket and up pops an ad touting
[...]
MAY 18, 2012 12:09PM
Campaign Swag: It’s Obama by a Landslide
You know the Presidential election season is in full swing because
both candidates have flung open the doors to their campaign
merchandise shopping sites. Obviously you’re making a
statement when you wear an Obama t-shirt or slap a Romney bumper
[...]
MAY 16, 2012 12:10PM
Should You Be Buying Your Groceries Online?
Clicks or Bricks: which is cheaper, easier, greener? Who
wouldn’t want to cut out all those trips to the supermarket?
Hopefully you’ve already cut way back, with a larger portion
of your food coming from farmers markets and other local
[...]
MAY 15, 2012 2:42PM
Intermarriage and the Price of Skirt Steak
One in seven marriages in the United States is between
spouses of a different race or ethnicity from one another. That was
the big news earlier this year when the Pew Research Center
released its Social and Demographic Trends
[...]
MAY 14, 2012 1:31PM
Shameless Act of Product Placement: James Bond Will Drink Heineken
Everyone’s got their price. Apparently James Bond’s is
$45 million. That’s the rumored value of the marketing deal
with Heineken that turns Daniel Craig’s James Bond into a
beer guy. Vodka martinis have always been James Bond’s
signature drink. Ian
[...]
MAY 11, 2012 10:17AM
Obama, Clooney & You: Menu Revealed
The event was officially known as Obama, Clooney & You. It was
alternatively dubbed Starmageddon. I don’t know about you,
but this is what Obama and Clooney had for dinner: artichoke salad
roasted duckling ‘Peking style’ with tiny steamed buns.
[...]
MAY 10, 2012 12:33PM
The Cone is Always King but Ice Cream Sandwiches are the Trendier Choice
It’s shaping up as the summer of the ice cream
sandwich. We’ve seen it before with cupcakes, whoopie pies,
and donuts. Now ice cream sandwiches are the latest humble,
familiar snack to get the upscale treatment. The classic slab
[...]
MAY 9, 2012 1:57PM
1 in 10 Americans is Employed by a Restaurant
Forget about manufacturing, healthcare, and technology; the
real jobs are in food. According to the National Restaurant
Association, restaurants have added more than 560,000 jobs in the
past year, with 200,000 of those positions created in the last six
[...]
MAY 8, 2012 1:24PM
Behold the Round Saltine
Round Saltines have been showing up on supermarket shelves
throughout New England. After a century of quadrilaterality,
Nabisco is test-marketing the new geometry. If it’s well
received in the region, there could be a national roll out by the
end [...]
MAY 7, 2012 3:27PM
Cool New Cooling Gadgets
How do you cool the drinks when it’s hot outside? Mankind has
wrestled with this one from the beginning of time. From fire and
ice, radiation and resistance, to exothermic and endothermic
reactions, we’ve tried it all. We’ve put a [...]
MAY 4, 2012 1:48PM
Weekends are Bad for our Eating Health
There’s something about the weekend. It can be
2½ days of downtime or jam-packed with activities.
Either way, it beckons us to throw caution to the wind. 7.68
million food ratings describing nutritional content were collected
through the iPhone app The Eatery; [...]
MAY 2, 2012 12:29PM
Child Foodies: Even more obnoxious than the grown-ups
It seems that kids don’t want to eat like kids;
or at least a certain sort of parent doesn’t want them to.
The Prepubescent Epicure as Ultimate Foodie Accessory It goes
beyond the desire of parents to raise
[...]
APRIL 30, 2012 10:29AM
Lesbians Get Fat, Gay Men Stay Skinny, and New Wives Pack on the Pounds
It’s true. Women really do ‘let themselves
go’ when they’re in a relationship. I hate myself for
saying it. I feel like a mean-spirited sexist, a traitor to my
gender, a perpetuator of hateful stereotypes. But it’s
undeniable, supported
[...]
APRIL 26, 2012 11:57AM
‘WeTap,’ and Bottled Water Comes Out Swinging
You have to buy bottled water because you can never find a decent,
working drinking fountain. Drinking fountains are disappearing from
public spaces because everyone buys bottled water. WeTap wants to
break the cycle. WeTap is a new, free smartphone
[...]
APRIL 24, 2012 1:34PM
Foodiness– It’s Like Truthiness for Food
Apologies to Stephen Colbert. He is of course the originator of the
phrase with which we are taking liberties. He struck upon
truthiness as a satirical way to explain intentional approximations
of truth; a sort of wishful thinking unburdened by [...]
APRIL 23, 2012 11:29AM
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
The Wall Street Journal said: ‘Forget conventional
401(k)s; think goat cheese and fennel.’ Business Week called
it one of the ‘big ideas that will change small business and
entrepreneurship,’ and Time
Magazine explored its potential to ‘remake
America’s fo…
APRIL 20, 2012 12:04PM
Arousal by Food Smells
Food might be the way to a man’s heart, but the smell
of food aims a little lower. Research performed at the Smell and
Taste Research Foundation in Chicago discovered that certain food
smells are like olfactory Viagra, significantly [...]
APRIL 19, 2012 11:12AM
The Power Couples of Food
It’s not that you are what you eat so much as you are
what you digest. There’s synergy in the foods we eat. The
more we learn about that synergy, the more we understand that the
sum of what [...]
APRIL 16, 2012 10:56AM
Rolling Out the Tax Day Freebies
Is there any better flavor than the taste of free? Everyone loves a
bargain, but free is a whole other animal. Zero is not just another
price. It’s an emotional hot
button— push it, and we are irrationally,
deliriously happy. [...]
APRIL 13, 2012 11:24AM
Google and Facebook: The Best Company Cafeterias in America
The stereotypical computer geek works obsessively and eats crap,
coding into the wee hours fueled by a diet of caffeine and junk
food. If they think at all about food it’s to use a little
multivariate calculus to optimize the
[...]
APRIL 10, 2012 2:27PM
Food Named for Celebrities/Celebrity Babies Named for Food
We’ve always named foods for celebrities. I’m not
talking about foods named after their creators, like the Earl of
Sandwich or Sylvester Graham of graham cracker fame, but foods that
are named in tribute, like the Shirley Temple or Baby
[...]
APRIL 9, 2012 2:09PM
Is Williams-Sonoma’s Agrarian Brand the Real Portlandia?
Who needs Portlandia when we have Williams-Sonoma Agriarian?
The urban DIY sustainability movement comes painfully close to
self-parody with Williams-Sonoma’s new Agrarian line of tools
and supplies. Launched last week, Agrarian brings us shiny tin
bronze garden trowels hand-forged
[...]… Read full post »
APRIL 6, 2012 4:18PM
Who’s Going to Take a Bite Out of Open Table?
OpenTable does not have a lock on the restaurant reservation
business. I’ll admit, appearances suggest otherwise: the
online reservation service is in one third of all U.S. restaurants
that accept reservations for a total of 25,000 member restaurants,
and
[...]
APRIL 5, 2012 10:41AM
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia: Skip the Pet, Eat the Seeds
Chia seeds are being touted as the latest
‘superfood.’ Yes, chia seeds, as in Chia Pets
â„¢ of stuttering infomercial fame. It seems that
the seeds are good for a lot more than just growing sprouts on
ceramic doggies. [...]
APRIL 4, 2012 12:01PM
The Worldwide Vanilla Shortage is Coming
Vanilla, we hardly knew ye. And now we’re heading into a
worldwide vanilla shortage. Yields are down by as much as 90% in
every one of the world’s vanilla-growing regions. Supplies
are dwindling and nervous buyers are bidding wholesale prices
[...]
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