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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]

This document has it all: a neat quantization of the qualitative; a tale told in a single bureaucratic leaf that implies a whole hidden universe of night-scurrying morlocks who tend the magic under the harsh glare of floodlights on the third shift; a fine sheet slid in the nearly imperceptible crack between consensus hallucination and []

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.

Entertaining bold changes in your career can feel like an abandonment of what youve worked for thus far, but this fallacious mindset can cost you a lot more in the long run than the time spent at your current gig. Change is constant, and building new skills outside of your typical wheelhouse will do much []

Immersive 3D sound is usually only possible with an array of surround-sound speakers, or by using headphones with Binaural audio content. And since most readily-available media is mastered for generic stereo, your Dolby 5.1 setup wont automagically add an extra dimension to your listening experience. But you can still simulate a rich audio environment with []

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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Celebrate Independence Day with MC Frontalot's nerdcore rap ... - Boing Boing

Audient has teamed up with some of the industrys leading innovators to offer a comprehensive selection of free creative software for all Audient customers.

A comprehensive selection of free creative software from the likes of Eventide, Steinberg, LANDR and Producertech will be on offer for all Audient customers through its the new creative hub, ARC, which has launched today.

As a reward for simply registering a product on the Audient website, new and existing customers are given access to a range of software designed to provide a solution for recording, mixing, mastering and even education all free of charge.

The concept behind ARC is not only to add value for our customers, but also to provide high-end software products that producers or musicians of any ability can benefit from on a creative level, said marketing manager Andy Allen. Article continues below

As soon as you have registered your product, you can access ARC and download any - or all - of these amazing offers.

As part of the package, Audient offers two free Eventide plugins: UltraChannel and UltraReverb (worth 350). Between them, these plugins can provide EQ, compression, delay, gates, reverb and more.

Also available are Steinbergs Cubase LE and Cubasis LE2 (for iOS), which turn a Mac, PC or iPad into a compact Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), offering audio recording, editing, MIDI sequencing and mixing tools for musicians, producers and songwriters.

In addition, mastering innovators LANDR are offering 8 free 16-bit WAVs and 2 free 24-bit WAV master credits at no cost to Audient users, whilst the two Producertech.com courses selected by Audient will give unique insights into compression and vocal production, as well as a 20 voucher to put towards further courses.

We have provided over 500 in creative software for our customers and all they have to do is register their product now and enjoy. If youre already a user of a current Audient product - it doesnt matter if youve got an iD4 or a Heritage console - grab your serial number and click through on the Audient website, said Allen.

For more information about Audients ARC Creative Hub visit https://audient.com/arc/

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After doing an astrophotography shoot and zooming in on the stars, and you may find digital noise spoiling the scene. Removal in Lightroom can result in less color in the cosmos, but using a piece of software called Starry Landscape Stacker software canmake the final output much better.

In this 23-minute video tutorial byLonely Speck, Starry Landscape Stacker is put to the test.

By taking multiple exposures of the night sky, it is possible for the software to track the stars (accounting for the rotation of the Earth) and determine what is and isnt digital noise.This makesfor much cleaner and higher quality star shots after removal.

The software will select every star it can find, creating a mask of them. Its possible to adjust thismask by clicking on any stars that have been missed (or hot pixels that have beenmisinterpreted).

Itll also select the entire area of sky. You can, once more, fine-tune this to ensure the foreground and sky are entirely separated.

Then just click to continue, andStarry Landscape Stacker will output a TIFF file of glorious stars, without drastically reducednoise. You can see a comparison here the softwares output is on the left, compared with one of the original frames on the right:

Starry Landscape Stacker is available for macOS only and costs $35.

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How to Get Noise-free Star Photos with Starry Landscape Stacker - PetaPixel (blog)

TAMPA (FOX 13) - Ruben Rodriguez, who shot and killed a suspected burglar, was the last Tampa defendant to use Florida's Stand Your Ground Law before it was recently tweaked by lawmakers.

His attorney, Anthony Rickman came up short on his Stand Your Ground motion.

"But we won at trial," Rickman said. "Had the burden been different, had the state had the burden at that Stand Your Ground motion, I believe we wouldn't have had a trial," said Rickman.

The original law put the burden on the defense to prove the shooter was acting in self-defense. But two months ago lawmakers switched it, placing the burden on prosecutors.

Critics say the law makes it easier for defendants to get away with murder. It also forces the state to prove their case twice.

Prosecutors have opposed the changes and, this week, a Miami judge bolstered their case when he ruled the new law is unconstitutional. He said lawmakers overstepped their authority. He says under Florida's Constitution, that type of change can only be made by the State Supreme Court.

"This judge may have opened up a can of worms inadvertently by ruling in a matter which he did," explained Rickman.

He believes this judge's ruling will be appealed all the way to the Florida Supreme Court, putting Stand Your Ground cases in South Florida and here in Tampa in limbo.

The new law is already being challenged. Defendant Randolph Graham, accused of killing a former USF football player, now wants the new law applied in his case.

Hillsborough Public Defender Michael Peacock argued it before a judge.

"Does that make a significant change to Florida law? It does. Does that change what's going to happen in many many homicide cases? It does," said Peacock.

But the prosecutor says the new law should not be retroactive. They believe it should only apply to new cases that occurred after the new law was passed.

After hearing arguments on both sides, the judge ruled the new law can be used in Graham's case. His Stand You Ground hearing is set for late August.

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MONTROSE About 30 people attended the Lee County Young Republicans second meeting Saturday at the Tri-State Gun Club in Montrose.

The first meeting of the newly-formed GOP group was devoted to the First Amendment. The Second Amendment, stating, A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, was the focus of Saturdays meeting.

Each were given a pocket-sized Constitution of the United States book provided by the Wapello County Republicans, which were represented at the meeting. There were sign-up sheets for upcoming events this week, such as the Donnellson Fourth of July Parade and Lee County Fair.

Three safety rules

Tri-State Gun Club President Dave Hunold presented on a program on gun safety, which he reduced to a few rules.

He said if everyone followed these rules there would be no such thing as accidental injury involving a firearm.

The first rule is treat every gun as if it is loaded, Hunold said.

Hunold demonstrated that a person should always safety-check when they pick up a gun.

Secondly, Hunold said one should never point the gun at anything you cant pay for or replace.

The third rule is to keep ones finger off the trigger unless one intends to use the gun.

Hunold demonstrated how to use a gun. He described the design and model of three types of guns a revolver, semi automatic pistol and semi automatic shotgun. He also informed everyone about the most important parts of a gun the muzzle, trigger, barrel and magazine.

Gun control

Des Moines County Co-President Eric Marshall spoke to the group about gun control.

The firearm comes in as a device of protection, Marshall said. Its something for Americans to protect themselves from those that wish to do them harm.

He added that there are irresponsible and responsible ways to use a gun. He said as long as it is properly handled there shouldnt be any problems.

He explained how there are some restrictions on gun usage in different countries and in the United States.

Marshall said that there is a lot more publicity about guns being used improperly than instances when they are used properly.

Capitol trip

After Marshall spoke, Wapello County Republicans Chair Trudy Caviness announced there will be a trip to the State Capitol at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 18. Lunch will be provided at the Republican headquarters. Anyone who is interested in joining the group can contact Caviness at 641-684-7585 by July 14.

After the meeting was over, everyone was invited to participate in trapshooting.

Lee County Young Republican Chair Jordean Stein said that it was a great turnout, with the number of young and older people that came.

Third Amendment is next

The next meeting will be about the Third Amendment on Saturday, Sept. 2, at the Keokuk National Cemetery.

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Learning about the 2nd Amendment - Keokuk Gate City Daily