pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/plants-manufacturing/" rel="tag"Plants/Manufacturing/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/ford/" rel="tag"Ford/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/australia/" rel="tag"Australia/a/pimg vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/08fpv_f6_sedan-(12)_opt.jpg" alt="" /br /a href="http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/11/20/32581_news.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/11/fg_falcon_six.jpg" //abr /"No, thanks," says Ford of Australia to the Duratec V6. Instead, Ford of Oz will invest $21 million to upgrade its homegrown inline six-cylinder and keep the invading powerplant out. The ongoing commitment to its own engine saves jobs at Ford's Geelong plant, as well as keeps local Australian suppliers healthy. It doesn't make any sense for gaskets, castings, bearings and other various parts to come from some other continent, so it's a piece of good news for the economy in Victoria. The engine will be freshened to meet Euro IV emissions standards and will keep thundering away down under with exemplary second-order vibration characteristics. The Falcon, Falcon Ute, and Territory will continue to be homegrown products with homegrown hearts, that we still badly want here in he States. C'mon Ford, if Pontiac can do it, you can, too. emThanks for the tip, everyone!/embr /br /[Source: a href="http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/11/20/32581_news.html"GeelongAdvertiser/a]p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/ford-australia-saves-jobs-and-inline-6-with-big-investment/"Ford Australia saves jobs and inline-6 with big investment/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2008/11/20/32581_news.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/ford-australia-saves-jobs-and-inline-6-with-big-investment/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1378101/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/21/ford-australia-saves-jobs-and-inline-6-with-big-investment/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eDe62dSMeCsDqh_7kc01jD6k4IE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/eDe62dSMeCsDqh_7kc01jD6k4IE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=t0WQhQcL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=t0WQhQcL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=zQzgZpea"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=zQzgZpea" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/Vdk4b6WVdvY" height="1" width="1"/

[b]Furthernoise issue November 2008.[/b]br / br / Welcome to the November issue of Furthernoise. In what has been a truly momentous year for all sorts of reasons, we are proud to finish it off with a brand new issue stacked to the gunwales with new releases and an audio player restocked with new tunes to take you through into the new year. Furthernoise is the sister site of www.furtherfield.orgbr / br / Furthernoise issue November 2008br / http://www.furthernoise.org/index.php?iss=71br / br / "The Birth of Primary Cinema from the Spirit of Sound - Feature Article by Frank Rothkamm" (feature) Primary Cinema remains cinema, it is not painting or staged photography. It is comprehended as a sequence of images with sound which ultimately constructs its meaning. It de-emphasizes change and reduces bright-ness and distributes events on a galactic scale, but despite its apparent emptiness it remains true cinema as the marriage of projected images and sound in space and time.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=273br / feature by Frank Rothkammbr / br / "The Gyres, Between Nowhere and Goodbye, The End of Everything" (feature)br / Cathal Rodgers moonlights from his grubby guitarings with Irish doom-mongers Wreck Of The Hesperus as Wereju. Moonlight is apposite in application to Wereju, less evil more eerie twin, drawing out long rays of wild half-lit nightshade shimmer over grey evacuated fields, a sound described by the artist as "ageless drifting melancholia of an abandoned planet".br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=261br / feature by Alan Lockettbr / br / "A Ritual Which is Incomprehensible (to the smile of Pauline Oliveros) - Claudio Parodi" (review) The second in an ongoing series of conceptual works by Claudio Parodi sourcing and manipulating music from Tiziano Milano's Suoni CD (2005), not so much to remix but as staple material for processing in the studio. This time as with the last, the album is dedicated to a well known sound artist, and Pauline Oliveros is the chosen one on this occasion.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=272br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Bedside Stories - Taub" (review)br / Bedside Stories is the new release by Taub, aka Me Raabenstein and Harold Nono. It is a work of haunting sonic landscapes and fragmented realities, glued together with precision and beauty. It will lull you into worlds of spacious minimal sounsdcapes and sonic cinematic journeys, which constantly resolve back to a single sound event or just quiet.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=271br / review by Roger Millsbr / br / "Document 2 - Sevenhourgerm" (review)br / Document 2 by Sevenhourgerm aka Matthew Atkins is a CDR including nine experimental tracks released on the Minimal Resource Manipulation label. Found sounds and noise are crafted into varying degrees of coherency, with rhythm and melody flirting at the edge of perception.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=276br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Electronic Drifting: The Music of Richard Lainhart" (review)br / Many contemporary musicians take their inspiration from natural processes. Richard Lainhart's musical models come from clouds, flames and waves, whose nebulous and ever shifting formations are the catalyst for his beautiful electronic works.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=262br / review by Caleb Deupreebr / br / "Imperfect Silence - Various" (review)br / Imperfect Silence is a radical collaboration between artists working together purely online. Global boundaries and cultural differences make way for free jazz and diverse sonic improvisation, as Phil Hargreaves edits together the material to provide a personal narrative of Cadavre Esquis.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=275br / review by Alex Youngbr / br / "Italian Noise Label Dokura Serves up 3 Mini Cdrs" (review)br / Dokura is an Italian noise label that releases limited edition tapes, 3 inch CDRs and the occasional vinyl lp from a variety of international artists. With 10 releases to date, the little label seems to be aiming at noise of the instrumental variety swinging closer to the lo-fi dark ambient drone.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=269br / review by Derek Mortonbr / br / "Lost Hilde - Stray Ghost" (review)br / The releases on Highpoint Lowlife switch genres like someone channel surfing through alternative music TV. Lost Hilde adds yet another station to the programming, and an engrossing one at that. Everything begins as a smooth midnight cruise through glitched and looped synthetic sounds.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=270br / review by Max Schaeferbr / br / "Sympathetic Vibration - Marcus Jones" (review)br / Often, recordings exist as complete works in themselves, or as documents or mementos of a live performance. Sympathetic Vibration is one of a rapidly expanding body of works that do not fit easily into either category, blurring the boundaries between recorded materials and live event. Stacey Sewell chats to its creator, phonographer and sound designer Markus Jones.br / http://www.furthernoise.org/page.php?ID=274br / review by Stacey Sewellbr / br / Roger Millsbr / Editor, Furthernoiseimg src="http://rhizome.org/syndicate/nothing.gif?f=announce" border="0"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-announce/~4/460844550" height="1" width="1"/

Category: Navigation
Released: Nov 13, 2008
Price: $1.99

Description:
What's your current address? When you want to let someone know what your current address is then PinPoint has the answer. PinPoint locates you, shows a map and the current ADDRESS. Within seconds you can tell or email someone your address along with an image of the map and the link to Google maps. Why is PinPoint different? 1: It's non-technical: No need to deal with longitude and latitude 2: Real ADDRESS: Converts the location into a readable address 3: Not a Map application: But includes a small map for fast response 4: Gives you visual, textual and vibration feedback. You can use PinPoint to: - Let someone know where to meet- Email an address to yourself to keep a record - Let your partner know how far you away from home- Find out the Post Code of your current location Check out http://blog.firepin.com for our product blog.

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[Lynne] had this crazy idea to build a piece of clothing that would give you feedback about your surroundings using sonar. She started with a carefully selected thrift store jacket. She wanted something that looked good and also provided plenty of places to hide electronics. She used the LilyPad system, with a vibration pad and a sonar range finder. When the system detects an object within a certain distance directly in front of the wearer, it warns them with some vibration. Not only is it practical, it looks pretty cool too. Did we mention she designs clothing?

She notes, in the comments section, that while it can detect an obstacle, it cannot detect a void. How could she detect a drop in the floor or a step down?

      

I have been noticing some speaker or subwoofer distortion coming from my late 2008 MBP. It is most evident in Adium when I receive or send a message using the default sound set and the volume up past half. It seems to be a resonance that is transmitted through the chassis of the laptop. It's reproducible with certain music as well, but it is most evident with the Adium sounds. I'm not near an Apple store to check it out, so can someone maybe open up Adium and send a few messages at full volume to see if there is this rattling/vibration type sound? Placing pressure on the chassis at different points with my hands helps to alleviate the issue partially, but it's still there. Thanks!

Category: Healthcare & Fitness
Released: Nov 17, 2008
Price: $3.99

Description:
A simple and attractive timer designed for tracking your workout set break and exercise times. FitTimer gives you an easy and effective way to control your break times while you are working out. Weight training is a proven way to improve strength, lose weight and keep you healthy. Although it is good for you, it can also be quite time-consuming. A well-designed workout can take between 1 and 2 hours to complete. Some people spend even more time working out. The main reason workouts can take so much time is because your body needs to rest between sets and exercises. But how much rest do you need? Do you know how much time you actually spend resting? A person on average spends about 70% to 80% of their workout resting. That means that out of an hour workout you only get about 7 to 9 minutes of actual exercise. The main goal of FitTimer is to allow you to control your break time and measure the time you use for exercise. So, unless gym is your life, you probably need FitTimer to help you save time and stay fit at the same time. So what do you get when you buy FitTimer? Features: * Keeps track of each set's exercise and break time. * Attractive modern design * Sound and vibration indicators * Works seamlessly with music playing in the background. * Costs only a fraction of the price of a stopwatch with similar capabilities. * No need for an additional device (stopwatch) * Rotated interface mode for people who wear the timer on their belt

Website: http://www.eideticsoftware.com/fittimer
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