Nice SCOUT Line-ups For June 8 and 15

These last 4 shows are looking good — and they’re filling up fast — we only have a few slots left on June 22nd and 29th. (Which is great for me, because it will give me more time to promote the participating artists if I know who they are weeks in advance.)
MCs for this Wednesday, June 8, 10 pm

Red Devil Lounge, 1695 Polk Street, San Francisco

DJ Mars – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
Wonway
Conceit & Top.r (Strangeface)(Hardly Celebs)
Boac (Earthlings)
Rush
M.C. Mars, the Supah Intergalatic Street Poet
Amuzition
Hall of Fame
Eboo, Exec D, Da Kid St. Nick, M.O.B.
Ryan Greene

MCs Announced for SCOUT Next Wednesday, June 15, 10 pm

2 Fresh – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
Noble House Records recording artists:
Foreign Legion
(Zach Turner, Marc Stretch)
Gennessee
Cait La Dee
L*Roneous
Dogwood Speaks
Also appearing:
kero one
Jesse Seaver (a beatboxing comedian)

Come To The Show Tonight At The Red Devil Lounge

This whole next month of
SCOUT shows is gonna be sw-eet.
First of all, due to popular demand, Variable Unit will be jamming a lot more on its own.
Another change: We’re having a different DJ every week now for the opener.
This week, DJ Quest. Next week, DJ Marz (another of the Space Travelers). The week after that, we don’t know yet…
Here’s the line up for tomorrow night’s show. (Wed June 1, 2005)

DJ Quest – Opening from 9-10pm
Guest MCs:
MC Link-Letterz
(Ctrl Z)
Paulie Rhyme
(Finless Brown)
JBo
(Nightcrawlers)
Zealous
Special Guests TBA

Help Configuring Wide Hive Blog – Trouble with CategoryList Module

Update 2:22pm: Okay, I figured out on my own (doh!) that I just had to check a box in the weblog config- and then rebuild my category archives so they existed. Simple enough.
Now I’m trying to have more than two entries on my home page. Any ideas? — thanks!
Hi guys,
I’m just trying to implement a CategoryList module (see code below) in the Wide Hive Blog, and I’m getting this error. Is there an MT tag that has changed names or something?

An error occurred:
Build error in template ‘Main Index’: Error in tag: Build error in template ‘CategoryList’: Error in tag: The archive type specified in MTArchiveList (‘Category’) is not one of the chosen archive types in your blog configuration.

code in the CategoryList module:

<div class=”sidetitle”>
All Categories
</div>
<div class=”side”>
<MTArchiveList archive_type=”Category”>
<a href=”<$MTArchiveLink$>”><$MTArchiveTitle encode_html=”1″$></a> (<$MTArchiveCount$>)<br />
</MTArchiveList>
</div>

The Brain’s Angular Gyrus May Be Key To Metaphor Comprehension

Or it may not. But it kinda seems like it.
(I love this stuff. The sooner we figure out how the brain works, the sooner we can go about creating a computer to house our consciousness, the sooner we can get on with the singularity already.)
(Never mind that it’ll never work 🙂

BRAIN PIC: CENTER FOR BRAIN AND COGNITION, UCSD

Brain Region Linked to Metaphor Comprehension

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran of the University of California at San Diego and his colleagues tested four patients who had experienced damage to the left angular gyrus region of their brains…
The angular gyrus is more developed in humans than in other primates and is located in the brain at the junction of areas specialized for processing touch, hearing and vision. “While it would be premature to conclude that the angular gyrus is the ‘metaphor center’ of the human brain,” Ramachandran says, “we suggest that the evolution of the dominant angular gyrus contributed enormously to the evolution of many quintessentially human abilities, including metaphorical–and other abstract–thinking.” He will present the results on Friday at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society in Los Angeles.

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Bit Torrents Up Of Some Recent Daily Show Clips

CommonBits has a number of recent politically-oriented Daily Show clip
up as torrents.

http://www.commonbits.org/tag/daily-show
Including:
GayWatch: Spokane Mayor Jim West
D.C. Evacuation and Korean Nuclear Threat
Avian Ressurection of the Arkansas Woodpecker
Great Moments in Punditry as read by Children: Scarborough Country on
Religion
Bush’s Attack on the Clinton Roadless Rule
Great Moments in Punditry as read by Children: Rev. Jerry Falwell &
Chris Matthews
An Interview with Tom Ridge
Coverage of the recent U.K. Election of Tony Blair

One Of Tom DeLay’s Scandals Covered On 60 Minutes

This is from the March 6, 2005 program of
60 Minutes.

Tom Delay vs. the Austin, TX District Attorney
Mirror of these clips

It’s really interesting to me to watch the Repubs strategy in action: break the law however you need to, challenge the laws themselves, and wait a couple years until a good judge has a chance to set things straight.
Oh yeah, don’t forget to call them an “activist judge” when they use their skill and conscience to interpret the law accordingly.
By that time, you’ve already won the election, or passed the faulty legislation, or redistricted precincts or completed whatever short term goal you were after. The courts will never, ever be able to keep up the pace after you.
In this case, DeLay is challenging what is meant by “Administrative” costs. He is being investigated for allegedly using funds for other purposes than they were legally allowed to be used.
“Administrative” uses have always meant rent, power, phone bills, etc.
According to his own brochures, he was clearly using the money for other purposes.
Note that this particular “scandal” is different from the numerous other misallocations of funds that DeLay has alredy been admonished for by a congressional ethics committee, or the other recent stuff that just surfaced about taking a vacation on a lobbyist’s wallet.

Feedback Welcome On Experimental Wide Hive Media Player

For those of you who are interested in such things…
Here’s a link to a prototype of a
Wide Hive Media Player
(Thanks Nacho!)
So far, I was just planning on making all of our samples available via the media player, so that cover art and purchase info could be displayed while the songs played. We’re also going to make it so you can just start at one song and have the player keep going through our entire sample library.
Love to hear your other suggestions for this.
thanks,
lisa

SCOUT Reviewed In East Bay Express

Here’s a very funny and accurate review of the evening’s events of May 18, 2005.


Rocky Types with Rocky Flows
By Rob Harvilla for the East Bay Express.
Here’s a quote from the article:

But who wants absolute confidence and total success at a hip-hop jam session anyway? Embrace this experiment’s danger and uncertainty, which can only magnify its high points. Beatboxers are Scout’s secret weapon — Howe raves that the prior week featured the talented crew Felonious, which valiantly challenged McCree to a Live Drums vs. Beatboxing battle. This time out, Each of the highly talented Vowel Movement crew took on both McCree and VU turntable expert DJ Quest, and though he lost on both counts, he tackled the job with admirable enthusiasm. As did Tha Archivez, a robust pirate radio dude who launched into a spastic, hilariously unhinged freestyle that seemed to last a half-hour, to the point where he was forced to rhyme Frisco with Crisco.
Will any of these performances make the Scout CD? Perhaps not, but quiet excellence gets old fast — Scout’s awkward humanity and human drama make it both fascinating and slightly more authentic than your typical polished MC flow.

Here’s some feedback from us at Wide Hive on the Rob’s constructive criticism.
We were generally very pleased with the article.
(And it’s pretty funny too!)

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