http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?RecentChanges John Abbe's personal wiki-weblog, often writing on Lanka, wikis, MacOS, nonviolence, and whatever else i feel like enCopyright 2002, John Abbe and whomever signs.John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net]John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net] AbbeNormal http://www.ourpla.net/pikie/logovsmall.gif http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?RecentChanges John Abbe's personal wiki-weblog, often writing on Lanka, wikis, MacOS, nonviolence, and whatever else i feel like Search this weblog: fullsearch http://www.ourpla.net http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?MultipleViewpointDrama Telling a (hi)story from multiple perspectives. Anna Deavere Smith has done two films in 1991 and 92, one on a conflict between Hasidic Jewish and African-American communities in Brooklyn - Fires in the Mirror (also a book), and one on the riots after the not guilty verdict in the first trial of the police who beat Rodney King - Twilight: Los Angeles. I've seen Fires in the Mirror, and watching it was like seeing something through many facets of a prism and eventualy somehow coming to a whole picture of what happened, without it reconciling to a single self-coherent story. (Her doing four characters in a TED talk: <a href="http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/60">http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/60</a> ) An older film taking a similar approach is Kurosawa's Rashoman. Also see the 1999 film Go. ... text/htmlenCopyright 2002, John Abbe and whomever signs.John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net]2010-10-04T05:32-08:00 http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?RandomWebPages It was a sad day (between Oct 8-13, 1997) when Yahoo! got rid of the random link at the top of their front page. Though the link is gone it has continued to work on and off: <a href="http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl/">http://random.yahoo.com/bin/ryl/</a> Since <a href="http://ourpla.net/cgi/fy?_ObBlog/001134182238.690774-YahooEatsSomethingDelicious"> they bought del.icio.us</a>, they own something maybe better anyway: delicious.com/recent?random&amp;min=10 - You can omit the "&amp;min=10", or change the number to whatever you want for the minimum number of people who have saved the link. <a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/">http://www.stumbleupon.com/</a> is sort of random-minus, learning what you like as you use it, so that in theory it becomes more likely to give you links that you will find interesting. Random links from the DMOZ directory - <a href="http://randmoz.habilis.net/Rand/Top">http://randmoz.habilis.net/Rand/Top</a> or you can narrow in by category from here: <a href="http://randmoz.habilis.net/">http://randmoz.habilis.net/</a> ... text/htmlenCopyright 2002, John Abbe and whomever signs.John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net]2010-09-07T14:07-08:00 http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?GoodQuestions "In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's [sic] questionings is more important than his answers." --Andre Malraux "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." --Thomas Pynchon ... text/htmlenCopyright 2002, John Abbe and whomever signs.John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net]2010-08-22T12:10-08:00 http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?MyReligions <a href="http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?MyReligion">MyReligion</a> is about my core faith. This page (<a href="http://www.ourpla.net/cgi/pikie?MyReligions">MyReligions</a>) is for a more whole/collage look at my relationship to religions - other things that i have believed, believe in my head but not my gut, practice, or that support me in some way. <hr> ... text/htmlenCopyright 2002, John Abbe and whomever signs.John Abbe [johnca@ourpla.net]2010-06-02T11:35-08:00