Free Ruby on Rails E-Book
Sitepoint is giving away free PDF copies of "Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications" by of Patrick Lenz for the next 60 days. I downloaded it this morning and it looks like a pretty solid book and a good introduction to rails.
Save a Student Some Money
Software For Starving Students is a great collection of free software aimed at college students, but everyone can probably find something useful. They just released their latest collection and it all fits onto a single CD for either Microsoft Windows or OS X. (For those of you on linux, you can just "aptitude install" most of these from a command prompt).