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Animator Chad Essley writes, "The new MC Frontalot (previously) nerdcore video is out for the 4th of July! Celebrate our nations hostility toward the British crown by listening to Front rap about internet arguments over Free Software!"

We must pause to thank a free software company, The OpenNMS Group, for commissioning this piece and making it available to the world. Show them some love.

The animated video is pretty great. Cameos include: Lawrence Lessig (who is name-dropped in the lyric), Snowden and Assange (who are not), our ghoulish current prez, some poor sap forced at gunpoint to recite the songs lyric on North Korean television, and a bird who looks borderline-infringingly similar to Drinky Crow! There are probably dozens of other little details and Easter Eggs in there, which you should definitely catalog while watching the clip over and over again.

Ever wanted to remix a Frontalot song? Well, in further thematic synergy, Freedom Feuds source tracks are now available under a Creative Commons license for your artistic experimentation and/or Hawt Jam Cookery. Grab the kit here. Free MP3/AAC/FLAC versions of the mastered song are available too.

Fronts gonna see you at DEF-CON in Vegas this month. Then there are a couple more PAXes this year, on opposite sides of the earth. Front will rap at both of those. Will he figure out how to get on the road with Schaffer, Ran, and Lars in the fall? Stay tuned

Freedom Feud [MC Frontalot]

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From 1993 to 2001, this Serbian middle-school biology textbook sported a cutout of a still from Raising Arizona in which Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter cradle their stolen baby.

Noah Smith (previously) writes in Bloomberg (!) about the fleecing of the Gen-X and Boomer middle class a class that is growing continuously smaller and poorer, thanks to financial deregulation, tax cuts and a lax attitude toward consumer protection and antitrust.

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If big-game bow hunting sounds a little too intense for your delicate sensibilities, or you want to start building your kids archery proficiency early, this Real Action Crossbow Set is a fairly convincing replica of the real thing.The toy bow fires suction-cup tipped bolts up to 20 feet, so you can work on your marksmanship []

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