An icon at the rightmost side of the OS X Menu Bar lets you shove your entire workspace over to the left, making room for a runninglist of alerts you may have missed.
Ruth Prigozy, in her pioneering 1977 essay, "Fitzgerald and Popular Music, " began compiling a runninglist that today includes close to 100 different songs that Fitzgerald directly cited in his five novels and 170 or so short stories.