I just donated money to help hire an orchestra to record some out-of-copyright music (Bach, Tchaikovsky, etc.). The scores are old and out of copyright, but any new recording is copyrighted--but these folks will release it under a Creative Commons license, so it'll be free to share!

You can donate too, here: http://kck.st/cOYVCM

Inkscape is a free (GPL) graphics program, sort of in the vein of Adobe Illustrator or OpenOffice Draw. It's pretty nice and does many things, but recently I've been missing the lack of double-arrow arrowheads, since they would be useful in my diagrams ( Read more... )