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The most comprehensive electronic guide ever made (?)

I’m a fan of electronic music and many of its sub-genres, but it’s always been sort of hard trying to explain others the differences between each genre, its influences and origins, how they are associated and how they sound. Now imagine how can I show these sort of things to someone not familiarized with electronic music at all.

While I was surfing for something totally unrelated to it, I found a nice guide in Flash that explains it all, has music samples and maps of major genres showing its derivatives. This is the Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music. It even has an introduction tutorial explaining many of the basics.

It may not be perfect, but the sole fact that it “illustrates” you is enough for me. If you want to know even more about an specific sub-genre, Wikipedia is your friend.

Save by buying clothes on sale in the opposite hemisphere of the world

The title sounds kind of strange, but what I’m going to tell is pretty simple.
Here in Chile we are in winter right now, and recently most of the stores had all their winter season clothing on sale with discounts up to 80%. It started a few weeks ago and it’s still going on.

While I was looking for a coat I remembered that people living in the northern hemisphere of the world were in summer, which led me to the conclusion that if you do a trip to this hemisphere and buy stuff right on time, then when you bring it back home you should be ready for the coming winter season and also saved a ton of cash. The same logic could be applied vice-versa.

At least here in Chile when it comes to sales of these kind of stuff, they are done by the end of July until there’s nothing left.

Of course it isn’t worth it if you come just for that, but it might be an interesting thing to do if you happen to be here on time.