THE PULP OF BIESTMILCH

Archive for February, 2009


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In need of taming complexity?

Try Lovely Charts ;-) I tried it very very quickly and impatiently. I think it is a nice option to have and to know that it is available out there.

Biestmilch in absolute confusion

Biestmilch in absolute confusion

There are quite some web-based visual diagramming tools available, some of which have been featured at infosthetics from where I got the tip.
Lovely Charts tries to stand out the crowd of applications available by making the user-generated flowcharts, sitemaps and wireframes more beautiful than those from its competitors.

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Testetstszzuo: a taster ;-) after 2 days of intensive video training

My dear friend Fritz spend two days with me in Wiesbaden. He is a superb cameraman and more than that, a real computer savvy. I am currently suffering from an overflow of in-put that I try to digest in my night dreams that tend become nightmares for the time being ;-)

We really challenged the little SONY camera under extreme light condition. It is an amazing tool, this little creature. The title is Japanese and means something like »don’t be afraid of testing«… ;-)
Test the Test: a miniscule result after 2 days of intensive training on the camera; part 2 from susann kräftner on Vimeo.

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Rules in Formula 1 impressingly change vehicle design: the new Red Bull

It is not really a biestmilch domain, the formula 1, but I know that many an athlete of the triathlon community goes crazy with cars, loves racing, loves driving fast cars. Therefore I dare to post this video which shows some of the very interesting changes of the racing cars in 2009. It is a nice demonstration of how rules influence the cars’ development.

Last season’s F1 car morphs into the current Red Bull Racing car, the RB5, literally showing all the bodywork changes from nose to rear wing in one swooping video. The bodywork is removed to expose the engine and inner parts. A stream of energy makes its way from the back axle through the motor generator and into the battery, and so on.

Source: infostethics

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Good for us to know: Facebook Photos Pulls Away From The Pack

Up to now we primarily used to upload our picts on Flickr. When looking on the data below,  perhaps we should reconsider our approach. Harry, what do you think?

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If Facebook has one standout application it has to be Photos. Measured on its own, it is the largest photo site on the Web. A full 69 percent of Facebook’s monthly visitors worldwide either look at or upload photos, based on comScore data. And more than 10 billion photos have been uploaded to the site.

On a worldwide basis, the gap between Facebook Photos and Flickr (which is the No. 2 site globally, and looks like it is about to pass Photobucket in the U.S.) went from 41.2 million unique monthly visitors in September to 87 million in December.

The biggest factor is simply that it is the default photo feature of the largest social network in the world. And of all the viral loops that Facebook benefits from, its Photos app might have the largest viral loop of all built into it. Whenever one of your friends tags a photo with your name, you get an email.

But the tagging feature has been part of Facebook Photos for a long time. What happened in September to accelerate growth? That is when a Facebook redesign went into effect which added a Photos tab on everyone’s personal homepage.

Source: Techcrunch

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Who is SuziWu?

SuziWu shhooting Macca

SuziWu shooting Macca

My meditation job for the weekend. More later … ;-)

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Boost your brain: studies show that it is never too late !

Since we have the BIEST BOOSTER in our product portfolio I’m much more concerned about stuff that is enhancing brain activity and cognition. Nowadays brain doping has become silently accepted, students, scientists, computer specialists, artists, people under pressure in their jobs tend to use drugs to stabilize or enhance their performance. There are other possibilities, healthy ones, to boost your brain instead of dope. The article in the Scientific American that I found today and is very much in line with biestmilch, its biology and philosophy accounts for that.

  • Scientists are finding that the adult human brain is far more malleable than they once thought. Your behavior and environment can cause substantial rewiring of your brain or a reorganization of its functions.
  • Studies have shown that exercise can improve the brain’s executive skills, which include planning, organizing and multitasking. What you eat can also influence how effectively your brain operates.
  • Activities such as listening to music, playing video games and meditating may boost cognitive performance as well.

If you want the proof read the original article that quotes several studies performed in various species from humans to rats.
If you once have browsed through the Biestmilch Universe you may have noticed that biestmilch could be an integral part of your diet, your way of life, your physical activity. These are the things that make and keep you healthy. It is the quality of your diet and your physical and mental activity that may help you to stay young and fit. We know today that the best tumor prevention strategy is they way you live your life, the more trendy term is lifestyle.
By the way, it seems obvious that your body keeps going accordingly, only if your brain remains fit and flexible. It is the brain that is the coordination center for signaling to your body to move arbitrarily.
Everybody knows what it means on the job if the brain works and feels lousy ;-)

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Information: the term interests me a lot, because it is currently one of the most used and abused terms

Almost everyday we use this word. It is one of the most common ones in our language. Actually, I really don’t know when it became that prominent, when it became integral part of our everyday language.
Just wait a minute, I have a look into Wikipedia ;-) … Amazingly enough, I did not catch grounds. Either you end up with the Latin origin of the word »forming something, educating, bringing something into form«… if I’m not completely wrong, the way we use the term is that we don’t differentiate between sender and receiver anymore… Either side knows what the other side … needs, knows, wants to know, understands or doesn’t. Information is out there and we can find it. I don’t go along with this view. Information is closely related with communication and that is a thing which is/should be bidirectional, democratic and participatory… information is and should be symmetric, it should be democratic as well, it should present an open surface for discussion, negotiation …. one name it.


The Eames’ “A Communications Primer” from FI$H 2000 on Vimeo
Source: infostethics

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Real dog & ghost dogs

Office impressions inspired by Jim Jarmusch ;-)

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Source: ghost dog – the way of the Samurai