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habits of thinking

Last night, Matthew and I went to a screening of Slacker at the Harry Ransom Center. I had been having random thoughts about Eno's Oblique Strategies for a week or so, and a couple scenes in the movie feature the use of an Oblique Strategies deck. It seems like I should start using them for generating thoughts. One of the first interesting interactive things I found on the Web was an Oblique Strategies generator, so I decided to hunt around to see what the Web has to offer. I'm pretty sure the generator I saw in college was this one at Hyperreal, but online generators abound.

I thought to myself, this would be a perfect for a Dashboard widget! It would nicely complement the Terror Alert widget I have installed, but provide a little more utility. Lo and behold, there is a widget for generating Oblique Strategies. Now I can get a worthwhile dilemma just by punching F8!

It's interesting to note that this capsule review of Slacker quotes Oblique Strategies, but credits it to a character.

Posted by McChris at July 1, 2005 01:09 PM
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I take it you do not agree with the war in Iraq, and I suppose that if you had lived in the time of World War II, you would have been against going to war against Germany. DO YOU ENJOY WATCHING FILMS OF THE JEWS BEING BURNED IN NAZI OVAN'S. DO YOU ENJOY IT JUST AS MUCH AS YOU ENJOY SADDAM GASSING THE KURDS?

You shouldn't even be allowed to vote, never the less live in this country. Go to NAZI GERMANY, where you and your kind belong you anti-war protester.

Posted by: John Q. AMERICAN at July 23, 2005 02:06 AM
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