Insignificant Object

In the months before we published the 100th story in our Significant Objects experiment, many of you clicked on an author's name — in the Contributors list, at the right-hand side of this page — and found yourself directed to an Object Coming Soon page. The page announced: "We haven't posted this particular object, and its associated story, yet. But we will soon!" The following photo, taken in my living room, illustrated the Object Coming Soon page:

The stuff shown in this photo was collected ...