My art hero Brian Eno is profiled on Apple's site today. I find much of his current musical work boring, and am not entirely fond of his visual art. But he is an interesting thinker, and he has a way of coaxing other people into doing fantastic work while they're collaborating with him. Or being produced by him. So I pay attention to him.

Another Green World is good enough to earn him a lifetime pass. And then there's Remain in Light...

Hmm. The Eno Shop just informed me that there are four t-shirts available now with Oblique Strategies on them:

• Be less critical more often
• Into the impossible
• Not building a wall but making a brick
• Always first steps

Which are pretty good general writing strategies, don't you think? I think I'll take the card with the "brick" strategy on it and put it up somewhere where I can see it for NaNo month. I don't need any more t-shirts. (Computer industry hazard: I could probably go for two months without laundering a single shirt, just coasting on freebie shirts from dead companies. Well, I could have until I collected them all to donate a couple of months ago.)