I love the public domain. What I love even more than the public domain is Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers another fantastic way to share and collaborate on work through a number of different licenses that creators can use to tailor how they want to share their work with the world. The music that I used for the book trailer for The Voyager Record was under a Creative Commons license. This gorgeous track by Chris Zabriskie, slightly altered in the video, is titled "Wh

For the new card-a-month feature I decided that I'm going to spotlight a different deck each time, while still relying on the astrological cards from the Minchiate to act as the subject of the reading. This time, for February, that means Aquarius and Pisces (numbered out of order, because the Minchiate is wacky). And for this month's deck, I used the Visconti Tarots from Lo Scarabeo. These are reproductions of the oldest known tarot deck in existence, the exquisitely designed