Hey, so as of this morning’s auction close, we’re up to $894.54 for 826 National! Pretty good!

In other news:

In Twitter land the other day we got a nice shout out from @ugly_sauce, which is nice because that’s bARTer Sauce, another interesting online project all about objects and creativity and value. Read more about it here.

Our own Twitter account, @SignificObs, was created primarily to distribute our stories — but increasingly the tweets there do include other links related to this project, to its contributors, to objects, to object-related art, to reading, and so on. I’m looking into a plug-in that could produce a useful weekly Twitter digest on this site. (Recommendations welcome.) Meanwhile, recent examples that might interest you:

• Palojono compares Significant Objects to “power of story to make or break a new product”: http://bit.ly/6FLmUo
• Lessons from Significant Objects for … law firm branding? http://bit.ly/4INdDh
• The Attic on Significant Objects: http://bit.ly/4OR6WC
• “Balloon Boy! The Musical,” by (s.o. contributor) Ben Greenman, on McSweeney’s. Quite funny. http://bit.ly/5Xqk3K
• “Objects of Life,” exhibition includes a “suite of 14 significant objects.” Significant to Patti Smith, that is. http://bit.ly/6UZtnp
• Lisa Congdon object project, looks promising: http://collectionaday2010.blogspot.com/
• The mesmerizing demo video for Fortune Teller Device (written about by Rachel Axler / @rachelaxler): http://bit.ly/6Zf1iB
• “Everything I Have,” artwork by Simon Evans. http://bit.ly/5H0MV9. Nice.
• Ceal Floyer’s “Helix” series: ‘What looks like randomly arranged objects is actually a rigidly organized artwork.’ http://bit.ly/7UjppK
• Reading and the brain: NYT review of recent book on that subject: http://bit.ly/6OoZC0
• Coming later this month on BBC radio: A History of the World in 100 objects. Sounds cool, right? http://bit.ly/78kr8S

Aside from twitter.com/SignificObs, you can also enjoy Significant Objects stories via our Facebook page, or get them by email, or our RSS feed, or simply by visiting the site or our store, obsessively.