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November 11, 2005 6:38 AM PST

What you can get for one red paper clip

by Mike Yamamoto

Here's a new one: This blog began as an open-ended story about one man's quest to barter a red paper clip for something else. Four trades later--involving the said clip, a wooden fish, a doorknob and a Coleman stove--he's now got a red generator. What next?

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