Rock Star Fame meme

via debgeisler:

- Go to Wikipedia. The first random Wikipedia article title that you get is the name of your band.

- Go to The Quotations Page random quotations. (wikiquote project) The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

- Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days." The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

- Be creative. Post it.

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Shelving survey

sdavido and I are having a difference of opinion, and I'm curious as to how other people feel about it...

Imagine, if you will, a series of related books. Let's use Garfield books as an example. I say they should be shelved with the first volume on the right (3, 2, 1), because the titles are oriented that way; if you tilt your head to read the titles, you will be reading from right-to-left on the shelf, with right being the "top" of the title. SD- says they should be shelved with the first volume on the left (1, 2, 3), because English reads left-to-right. But then when you read across the titles you're going in the wrong direction, which feels odd to me.

(Stacking them vertically, which is the easiest way around the problem, won't work in many cases because of the space available.)

What say you, fellow bibliophiles?

[Poll #1110996]

Edit: Assume I'm talking about English books here...