Spime Watch: objects with back stories

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/05/magazine/05FOB-Consumed-t.html?_r=2

*Nice article.

*Just for the record, I think that human-parseable, human-written "stories" about objects are a rather small subset of a potential world of "spimes." You'd need a lot of "micro-boredom" to mindfully concern yourself with the origin and destination of every object in your home – or even in your backpack.

*The cool part isn't watching them all, but having the potential to watch them all.