Gigabiting

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Gigabiting

Gigabiting
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Philadelphia, US
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September 28
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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. . you can visit me at www.gigabiting.com

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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  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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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; [...]

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    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 [...]

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  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 [...]

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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 [...]

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…

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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. [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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  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 »
  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 [...]

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  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. [...]

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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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