[Newspoetry] update on newspoetry.com

[Joe Futrelle]

... I'm working with William on this; we're not quite sure how to get 
the domain back on track but I have some half-baked ideas.

In the meantime, if you like your irony in concentrated form, try this article:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/09/04/digital.bugle.ap/index.html

Push-button bugle to play taps at military funerals
Thursday, September  4, 2003 Posted:   3:29 PM EDT (1929 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chronically short of musicians for military 
funerals, the Pentagon has approved the use of a push-button bugle 
that plays taps by itself as the operator holds it to his lips.

Only some 500 buglers are on active duty on any one day, but about 
1,800 people with military service die across the country each day 
and are eligible for honors ceremonies, Air Force Lt. Col. Cynthia 
Colin, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said Thursday.

So the Defense Department worked with private industry to invent the 
"ceremonial bugle," which has a small digital recording device 
inserted into its bell to play the music.

A member of the honor guard at the funeral simply presses a button on 
the device. A five-second delay gives the guards time to raise the 
instrument to their lips as if they are going to play it.

-- 
Joe Futrelle
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