Here's that widget implementation of the Oblique Strategies card decks that Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt invented: Oblique Strategies-One hundred worthwhile dilemmas (Right click on the link to download a zipped file of it to your desktop, then follow the installation directions once you double click on it to un-stuff it)
It features the complete sets of the Original (1975), the Second (1978) and Third (1979) Editions, as well as the elusive, commercially not-available Fourth set (1996) by Brian Eno and Peter Norton. Selection of the Editions is user-controllable via a preferences panel. The timing for the Auto-Flipback feature is accessible via the preferences panel as well.
Each card contains a phrase or cryptic remark which can be used to break a deadlock or dilemma situation. From the introduction to the 2001 edition: These cards evolved from our separate observations on the principles underlying what we were doing. Sometimes they were recognized in retrospect (intellect catching up with intuition), sometimes they were identified as they were happening, sometimes they were formulated. They can be used as a pack (a set of possibilities being continuously reviewed in the mind) or by drawing a single card from the shuffled pack when a dilemma occurs in a working situation. In this case,the card is trusted even if its appropriateness is quite unclear. They are not final, as new ideas will present themselves, and others will become self-evident.
Here's a couple more info on the Oblique Strategies...
An unofficial, yet thorough website complete with an online version of the deck in case you don't want to load the widget onto your machine.
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