Some tracks were composed using Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies cards: " Boys Keep Swinging " entailed band members swapping instruments, " Move On " used the chords from Bowie's early composition " All the Young Dudes " played backwards, and " Red Money " took backing tracks from " Sister Midnight ", a piece previously composed with Iggy Pop.

Using his instruction cards the Oblique Strategies for guidance, the album contained fewer lyric-based rock songs and had stronger emphasis on instrumental productions ; many without the aid of guest musicians.

To look for new ideas, Eno turned to his instructional cards, the Oblique Strategies, and began coming up with new ideas as he did with his previous album Taking Tiger Mountain ( By Strategy ).

In response to their song " Brian Eno ", from their album Congratulations, MGMT has said they had a deck of Oblique Strategies in the studio, but they " don't know if used them correctly.

* The Oblique Strategies

* Random Oblique Strategies Gives you a random Oblique Strategy selected from editions 1 – 5.

* Brian Eno with Jarvis Cocker-Eno explains Oblique Strategies on Jarvis Cocker's BBC6 Radio show, Nov. 08, 2010.

* Random Oblique Strategies site with modern design.

* Oblique Strategies

In 1996 Norton helped produce an edition of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies cards for distribution to his friends and colleagues.

* Peter Schmidt – Oblique Strategies ( with Brian Eno ) and album cover art

Among the works shown was the first generative light box, a watercolour painting of Eno called " Portrait of Eno with Allusions ", several Tiger Mountain prints, the French edition of the oracle card set called Oblique Strategies, the four " Mandala Castles " and etchings created just for this exhibit.

They combined efforts to publish the Oblique Strategies cards in 1975.

The Oblique Strategies seem to have been an out growth of Schmidt's own " Thoughts Behind The Thoughts ".

In 1975 we produced a boxed set of oracle cards called " Oblique Strategies ", which were used extensively in the making of this record.

*" Oblique Strategies ", with Brian Eno, an edition of 500 copies.

" Brian Eno / Peter Schmidt-Card # 2 from Oblique Strategies, 1975

* Oblique intention: the result is a virtually certain consequence or a ' virtual certainty ' of the defendant's actions, and that the defendant appreciates that such was the case.

Therefore, the External Oblique Aponeurosis is slitted along its fiber, and the internal oblique muscle is split along its length, not cut.

Oblique type ( or slanted, sloped ) is roman type which is optically skewed, but lacking the individual letter forms and cursive accoutrements of true italics.

The RDB species Scarce Forester Adscita globulariae is present, and amongst many species of nationally scarce moths are the Cistus Forester Adscita geryon, Six-belted Clearwing Bembecia scopigera, Oblique Striped Phibalapteryx virgata, Pimpernel Pug Eupithecia pimpinellata, Shaded Pug Eupithecia subumbrata and Narrow-bordered Bee Hawk Moth Hemaris tityus.

* Oblique angle, in geometry, an angle that is not a multiple of 90 degrees

Oblique adaptations include that by the Reverend Robert Wilkins, who told the story of this parable in the song " Prodigal Son ", which is probably best known as a cover version by the Rolling Stones on their 1968 album Beggar's Banquet.

Oblique motion is motion of one melodic line while the other remains at the same pitch.

Oblique projection is a simple type of graphical projection used for producing pictorial, two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects.

Oblique projection is a type of parallel projection:

Oblique drawing is also the crudest " 3D " drawing method but the easiest to master.

Oblique is not really a 3D system but a 2 dimensional view of an object with ' forced depth '.

* Oblique fracture: A fracture that is diagonal to a bone's long axis.

The map projection used is Oblique Mercator on an 1841 Bessel ellipsoid.

* SLANT string -- " R " is Roman, " I " is Italic, " O " is Oblique, " RI " is Reverse Italic, " RO " is Reverse Oblique, " OT " is Other and a number indicates polymorphic slant capability.

For example, Univers 65 Bold Oblique has a smaller leaning angle than the Univers 66 Bold Italic.

* Occultist Kenneth Grant wrote a book called Beyond the Mauve Zone published in 1996, a brief summary of which states: " Oblique to the paths that give on to other dimensions, and beyond them, there lies a region which the author has named the Mauve Zone.

Image: Acraman x10. jpg | Oblique Landsat image of Lake Acraman draped over digital elevation model ( 10x vertical exaggeration ), looking east towards the Flinders Ranges where ejecta has been found ; screen capture from NASA World Wind.

Though Oblique illumination suffers from the same limitations as bright field microscopy ( low contrast of many biological samples ; low apparent resolution due to out of focus objects ), it may highlight otherwise invisible structures.

Oblique view of Olympus Mons, from a Viking program | Viking image mosaic overlain on Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter | MOLA altimetry data, showing the volcano's asymmetry.

Oblique reference to the origin of Habeas corpus underlies Scott's next novel, Ivanhoe, set during the era of the creation of the Magna Carta, which conservatives like Walter Scott and Edmund Burke regarded as rooted in immemorial British custom and precedent.

Oblique sounders use a transmitter at one end of a given propagation path, and a synchronized receiver, usually with an oscilloscope-type display ( ionogram ), at the other end.

Released fonts include Optima Pro Cyrillic Roman, Oblique, Bold, Bold Oblique.

* Oblique arytenoid muscles narrow the laryngeal inlet by constricting the distance between the arytenoid cartilages.

alt = Oblique aerial view of an enormous U-shaped building.

* Tan, Peter Jing ; and Dowe, David L. ( 2004 ); MML Inference of Oblique Decision Trees, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ( LNAI ) 3339, Springer-Verlag, pp1082-1088.

Other staff at the UU include The Senior Wrangler, the Chair of Indefinite Studies, the Lecturer in Recent Runes, the Chair of Oblique Frogs, The Professor of Revolvings, the Professor of Extreme Horticulture, The Professor of Applied Anthropics, the Reader in Esoteric Studies, the Lecturer in Creative Uncertainty, The Professor of Dust, Fluff, and Miscellaneous Particles, the Lecturer in Vindictive Astronomy, the Professor of Recondite Architecture and Origami Map-Folding, Ladislav Pelc, Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy, Professor Goitre, Posthumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy, Devious H. " Dragonbreath " Collabone, Professor Flead, Windle Poons, Professor Ritornello, Master of the Music, Professor Bengo Macarona, visiting professor from Genua and extraordinary football player, Mrs Whitlow, the domineering head of the kitchen, and Modo, the gardener.

Oblique aerial photo of March Field, taken in March 1932 looking southeast to northwest.

Oblique aerial photo of March Field in May 1940, just before World War II, looking north to south.

Oblique air photo of Thurmont, facing northeast, with Catoctin Mountain to the left.

* Oblique: at an angle to the direction of flow.

Oblique air photo of Chimayo and vicinity, including lake Santa Cruz in lower right.

Oblique air photo of the Colorado River where it crosses from Colorado County, Texas | Colorado County into Wharton County, Texas | Wharton County near Nada, Texas | Nada.

Oblique view of Fra Mauro taken from lunar orbit on the Apollo 12 mission.

The family was originally cast in Light, Medium, Bold, and Bold Oblique fonts in 1928.

Light Oblique, Medium Oblique, Demibold, and Demibold Oblique fonts were later released in 1930.