{"id":8004,"date":"2003-05-08T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2003-05-08T12:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8004"},"modified":"2003-05-08T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2003-05-08T12:56:26","slug":"oblique-goes-osx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8004","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Oblique&#8221; Goes OSX"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=200 align=left src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/strategies.jpg\">If you&#8217;re a fan of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt&#8217;s <b>Oblique Strategies<\/b> cards, as we are here at Street Tech Labs, AND you&#8217;re a Mac user, you&#8217;ll be thrilled to know that CurvedSpace has released an <a href=\"curvedspace.org\/software\/oblique.html\" target=new>OSX app<\/a> for the cards. We&#8217;ve used these whack-on-the-side-of-the-head maxims for years to get us out of many a creative jam. They&#8217;re surprisingly effective. <\/p>\n<p> Since people have started offering computer-based versions of the cards, I&#8217;ve been thinking if there&#8217;s some way that the strategies could go &quot;open source,&quot; and that somehow, you could add strategies to your own &quot;deck,&quot; rate their effectiveness (reinforce it if it proves useful to you again and again), and then, at a certain &quot;weight&quot; of usefulness, it would get sent to other&#8217;s decks. People would then rate the effectiveness of these communally-added cards, and at a certain collective weight, they&#8217;d be permanently added to the deck. I know all this flies in the face of the Zen-like minimalism of the current decks, both off and online, but I think this could be done in an unobtrusive way.<\/p>\n<p> <font color=red><b>[UPDATE: Turns out, there IS such an online collaborative strategies project, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtqe.net\/ObliqueStrategies\/Acute.html\" target=new>Acute Strategies.]<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt&#8217;s Oblique Strategies cards, as we are here at Street Tech Labs, AND you&#8217;re a Mac user, you&#8217;ll be thrilled to know that CurvedSpace has released an OSX app for the cards. We&#8217;ve used these whack-on-the-side-of-the-head maxims for years to get us out of many a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8004\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Oblique&#8221; Goes OSX&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}