It took me less than 60s to change the width of our blog

This is what rens couldn't do in more than 10minutes I'm not sure if it's better this way... and the header should be resized when we keep a wider blog, but at least I can do it!

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

Some might already know it, some won't. Here is THE guide to electronic music.
It contains around 180 genres and 1189 samples.

"If you hate the guide, then you obviously didn't take it with a pound of salt like you were supposed to. Go take your anal-retentive sense of humour elsewhere."

Now let's make a little game out of this.
Who can tell me in which genre(s) the artist belongs?

Pink Floyd
DJ Shadow
Faithless
Venga Boys
Sphongle
Roni Size & Reprazent
LTJ Bukem
Rotterdam Terror Corps
Tiësto
Kraftwerk
Obie Trice
House of Pain (Jump Around!)
Snap! (I Got The Power!)

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Three ways to Hurt

First the Johhny Cash version, which is the best interpretation in my opinion. I didn't know that "In 2002, "Hurt" was covered by Johnny Cash to great critical acclaim; it was Cash's final hit before his death. Its accompanying video, featuring images from Cash's life up to his final months, was named the best video of the year by the Grammy Awards and Country Music Awards". It being his last, makes the song even more powerful.

Then the Kermit the Frog version :)

Finally, the original by Nine Inch Nails

In an interview with Alternative Press, Reznor admitted that when Rubin first asked if Cash could cover his song, he was "flattered" but worried that "the idea sounded a bit gimmicky." The power of Cash's cover didn't fully hit Reznor until he saw the video: “ I pop the video in, and wow… Tears welling, silence, goose-bumps… Wow. I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore. … It really made me think about how powerful music is as a medium and art form. I wrote some words and music in my bedroom as a way of staying sane, about a bleak and desperate place I was in, totally isolated and alone. [Somehow] that winds up reinterpreted by a music legend from a radically different era/genre and still retains sincerity and meaning—different, but every bit as pure. ” Reznor still occasionally refers to "Hurt" as "a song that isn't mine anymore."

First Aid

This is in now way a substitute for learning proper first aid. But I think it's better to know something than to know nothing. Here are two articles from WikiBooks on First Aid.

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Abdominal Thrusts (aka Heimlich Maneuver)
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Drank en softdrugs niet meer in één café

Hasjcafés in Amsterdam mogen vanaf zondag niet langer zowel alcohol als softdrugs verkopen. Dat schrijft minister van Justitie Ernst Hirsch Ballin vrijdag in een brief aan de Amsterdamse burgemeester Job Cohen, meldt de gemeente.

De burgemeester had de minister op verzoek van bijna de gehele gemeenteraad gevraagd de combinatie van alcohol- en softdrugsverkooppunten in stand te houden, maar kreeg nul op het rekest.

Amsterdam voerde van 1996 tot 2003 een uitsterfbeleid voor de hasjcafés, maar dat leidde volgens de gemeente slechts tot een beperkte afname. In die periode nam het aantal hasjcafés af van honderd tot zestig, waarop werd besloten het Amsterdamse beleid aan te passen. De gemeente nam met het uitsterfbeleid al een uitzonderingspositie in.

De hasjcafés kregen tot komende zondag de tijd om aan te geven of ze als café of als coffeeshop willen doorgaan. Van de 44 die er nu nog zijn, gaan er veertig door als coffeeshop, de rest wordt café.

GTA IV trailer

Click here to watch the first trailer of GTA IV in HD! Supposedly it's all ingame. Looks very good. Alternatively you can watch the low-def version on YouTube. It also contains a nice reference to Koyaanisqatsi. Release date: Oct 16, 2007. I hope they quickly port it to the PC once it's finished. On a related note, age verification on websites is ridiculous.