Comments on: The Sorted Books Project

By: anna

anna — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:38:57 +0000

I used to do this with the show titles from the TVGuide channel as they scrolled by, reading the lines from left to right. Try it sometime! You might end up with something you’d really like to see, like America’s Funniest Cops, or Will & Friends, or Everybody Loves Seinfeld.

By: anomalous4

anomalous4 — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 05:36:58 +0000

Tee hee —— my best friend and I have been doing that for years whenever we see a “best-seller list” posted anywhere. Things can get really wild when the list includes a lot of trashy romances.

Another great source of juxtapositions was the covers of old church anthem octavos, which used to list a few dozen best-selling titles instead of the current cheap artwork. Some wild and crazy theology could – and did – come out of those during my younger years in the choir!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:54:42 +0000

My bookcase holds in juxtiposition “How to Make Love to a Man”‘ How to Make Love to a Woman”, “How to Make Love to Each Other”, and “How to Read a Book”.

By: William

William — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:10:00 +0000

Larissa: Though I can’t help but commend you for reccommending XKCD, I think the search history was just that — the search history.

By: Larissa

Larissa — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:55:54 +0000

An online comic, xkcd, had something like this as the subject but it was with Google searches. Seen altogether they give interesting insight to the paranoid mind of people afraid of velociraptors. He titled it “Search History,” if you decide to look it up. My favorite is still Fourier, but Hamsterball is a close second. He does swear sometimes, just to give you a head’s up. The warning at the bottom of his page sums it up pretty well.

By: Higgins

Higgins — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:25:41 +0000

Link to the site is ‘view the whole collection.’ For convenience I also added the same link on ‘arranging books on shelves.’

By: Tru

Tru — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:37:36 +0000

Where’s the link to the site?

By: Mangesh

Mangesh — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:14:39 +0000

What a great site! I’m going to have to rearrange my book shelf immediately.

By: GoingLikeSixty

GoingLikeSixty — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:36:10 +0000

I like to play the same game with thread titles on forums.
Here’s one from today:

Kids on Chicken Pox Watch at Party
Do you pray before you eat?
Why can I buy a gun and not a TASER?