beyond the matrix

Archive of December, 2007

Brad Pitt Commissions Designs for New Orleans

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

By ROBIN POGREBIN
Thom Mayne of Morphosis in Los Angeles designed a house that would float if the city floods. James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates in Philadelphia created a house with native vines climbing up the side walls to provide shade and coolness. Steven B. Bingler of Concordia in New Orleans envisioned a house with wide [...]

The Last Days of the United States Dollar

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

James Howard Kunstler - Author of The Long Emergency
Kunstler.com kunstler@aol.com
The great debate among those of us on the Economy Deathwatch seems to be whether the debacle we observe around us will resolve as a crash or a slow-motion financial train wreck. It seems to me that at every layer of the [...]

Raisins Poison For Dogs

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

Laurinda Morris, DVM Danville Veterinary Clinic Danville , Ohio
If you have a dog… PLEASE read this and send it on. If you don't have a dog, please pass along to friends who do.
This week I had the first case in history of raisin toxicity ever seen at MedVet.
My patient was a 56-pound, 5 [...]