A12: For the years 2000-2005, yes! These CDs are created by the kind folks at the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The free CDs can be ordered by sending mail to this address. Dr. James Lochner Imagine The Universe Mail Code 660 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD 20770 USA

A11: Selections from APOD's daily pages have been compiled into two books titled "Universe: 365 Days" (May 1, 2003) and "Astronomy: 365 Days" (October 1, 2006) - Publisher: Harry N Abrams.

A1: APOD stands for the Astronomy Picture of the Day. We abbreviate this as APOD instead of ApotD because APOD sounds better (spoken: AYE-pod).

A2: Click the < less than sign < at the left of today's APOD link line (near the bottom of the daily page).

A4: Yes. Many of our readers have been with us less than a year and are unaware of some really spectacular or important astronomy pictures. New information about old pictures is becoming available over the WWW. The text and links for rerun pictures will make use of this newly available information. So although the picture might be old, some of the text and links of each APOD will be new.

A14: If the "Tomorrow" line at the bottom of today's APOD is not blank, then at least until tomorrow. (Probably.) We certainly have no plans to stop soon. If you check the apod archive you can see that it begins in June 1995. A15: Probably not. NASA has archived literally hundreds of thousands of space and astronomy related pictures and APOD readers have come to submit many images for our consideration. So far, we have more good pictures than we can run.

A16: Robert J. Nemiroff and Jerry T. Bonnell have written most every APOD. Bob and Jerry are friends, professional astronomers, and were once office-mates at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. Presently, Bob is a professor at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan, USA, while Jerry is a scientist at NASA/Goddard. They are two mild and lazy guys who might otherwise appear normal to an unsuspecting guest.

Yes. To make it easier for CD vendors to provide high quality disks, we provide the Official CD images.

Not at the moment but we are working on it. If you wish to be notified by email when the CD becomes available, please send an email to: cdcopy@parentswish.com. We do not have costing information yet. The video and audio quality on the CD will be highly superior than the online presentation because we do not have to worry about bandwidth consumption and server bottlenecks.

A3: All APODs are archived. To see any past APOD, access the archive page. This is found by clicking "archive" on the link line, or even by clicking "Discover the Cosmos" near the top of recent APOD pages.

A5: We can't promise to use it but we do strongly encourage picture submissions to APOD. Even if you only know of a good picture, please tell us about it. If you own the copyright for a submitted picture, please grant us explicit permission to use it. The best way to show us your picture is to load it onto a web page and send us the URL. Note for image submissions: The APOD pages are collected annually on a CD-ROM, which is distributed free of charge to educators and the general public.

A7: APOD does not sell posters. Some pictures originating from NASA can be purchased in poster form following the information on this approved NASA page. Q7a: How can I see a higher-resolution version of a particular APOD? A7a: Clicking on the picture itself brings up the highest resolution version of the image available from APOD. It is possible that higher resolution versions exist. To find these you should follow the informative links in the APOD text.

A8: For non-commercial fair use, yes. Please note that many APOD images have are copyrighted and so to use them commercially you must gain explicit permission from the copyright owners. Many times, these copyright owners can be found by following the links provided under the APOD image(s).

A9: Many APOD images are copyrighted and so to use them you must write to the copyright owners for explicit permission. Many times, these copyright owners can be found by following the links provided under the APOD image(s).

A17: Since we are so modest we keep quiet about a lot of things. For example, it just wouldn't be proper to let slip that we feel that APOD is one of the first sites (since 1995) to make journalistic use of full web hypertext. By "full web hypertext", we mean that the APOD text is liberally annotated with hyperlinks to anywhere on the web where good and relevant information is available.

There is no set amount of funding available per project. The amount of funds invested in any one project will depend on the scope of the project. This initiative has funding allocation of up to $18.5 million until March 2008. It is expected that a number of sites will be balanced across the country and amongst the three types of rural communities (see above for definitions of three types of rural).

Beyond the four year warranty that comes with the Toshiba Tablet from CDW-G, "System Guard" coverage may be purchased. System Guard does not provide coverage for stolen machines. For machines that are lost, stolen, or accidentally damaged, some home owner's insurance policies can provide coverage. Some insurance companies also make available policies covering "personal articles." District 86 will not be providing any type of insurance plan for Tablets.

Not currently. It was at one time rumored to be part of a special boxed set (of CDs from Piper through DSotM), and also has been available in the past as a limited product in Europe. This rumor has never been proven true. Then, for a while, it was available in New Zealand (with the ancient coins cover), but has since been dropped. A forthcoming remastered edition was announced in a Dutch publication during the last tour (many of the remasters are made in Holland).

A12: A Dining-Out is a formal military banquet steeped in custom and tradition. The Dining-Out enables you to bring a date or guest(s) to enjoy many time honored festivities. It is one of the highlights of being a cadet at our detachment! A13: Yes, Arnold Air Society, the Honor Guard, Air Ops, and Civil Air Patrol give cadets a chance to become involved with community and civic action projects and understand the tradition of the military environment while having fun.

Several filk CDs are available which include Bujold filk songs. Visit the Bujold Filk Archive and look toward the bottom of the page for links to pages for the filk authors' pages. Both Echo's Children and Tom Smith have CDs available. Revised Spoiler FAQ to allow posts from date of ARC, added acronyms, updated publisher list, revised audiobooks, link check, revised "other lists" lists.

Nope. It's never been released, in spite of the fact that the movie includes the note "Soundtrack available on Columbia records and tapes" near the end of the credits. There have been a couple RoIOs of the soundtrack, (some very professional looking) but your best bet would be to buy the Hi-Fi videotape of the film (or get the new LaserDisc, and you'll have a digital copy of the soundtrack!) Interestingly, the written lyrics in some early Wall LPs have this change as well.

Not at the moment. I make changes to this site more or less every day so a static copy would become out of date very quickly. I think the web is the best place for a site of this kind.

Of course! It's in the classical or avant-garde sections of better record stores, as well as on Amazon.com, cdemusic.org, and other online sources, or you can order it right here.

Ans.: By default you get 5 MB free mail space with your Tata Indicom Internet Service ID from VSNL. This includes all the folders including the trash folder. Please ensure that you empty your trash folder frequently.

It is not definitely necessary to update the firmware unless your computer does encounter any problem.

This indicates that the file has been archived. You will also notice that the extension on the end of the filename has been changed to .ARCHIVE

A12. Usually, yes. EIDE CD-ROM drives are often misunderstood. Some articles and technical documents may refer to EIDE as the Attached AT Peripheral Interface (ATAPI). First, the typical EIDE CD-ROM drive operates entirely through a software driver in CONFIG.SYS, bypassing the system BIOS completely. So a BIOS upgrade is not required to support an EIDE CD-ROM drive.