The Internet owns at life

[Spare Oom and War Drobe]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/interne....ap/index.html

In short a man with great promotional and bartering skills has managed to use a simple red paper clip to accomplish a lot. He plans on trading up until he gets a house to call his own. By using a blog and some internet fame it looks like it’s a real possibility.

The trades are as follows:
Red Paper Clip
Fish Shaped Pen
Ceramic doorknob with a smiley face, made by the son of an artist
Coleman camping stove
Generator
Empty beer keg and a neon Budweiser sign
Snowmobile
Trip to Yahk, expense-paid by a snowmobile company
1995 Van
Recording contract, studio time and a promise to pitch the finished product to music executives
1 year's free rent in a duplex in Phoenix


if its old I'll kill myself to make you feel better

[Moocow Milkblaster]

He should have just MacGyvered his own house out of the paperclip.

[Uber Uberest ~Rathe]

Read it on Cnn.com about 3 weeks ago and it was on the news quite a bit, but new to the board I believe. Pretty cool story, and just to note, the keg came with a promise to be filled.