I read The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century regularly. It’s not a book or anything, it’s just the blog of a really cool guy.
Anyway, in one of his recent blog entries, he talked about Flipping a Coin as a means to make a decision. I had never thought of the coin flip as a viable way of making a decision — and indeed this method is in line with that tradition by making the decision before the coin lands.