Four years of sustained imaginative effort isn't.

Also, at the very least going rate ($.10/12) his website is worth $146. That's more valuation than most startups (i.e., the countless failures) :)

He gives all these ideas away for free, seems to have fun writing them, while making a point about IP in general ( http://iotd.patrickandrews.com/about/ ).

Why belittle the effort?

Take a picture of your wifes cat every day for 4 years and then get back to us.

Exactly. Its a stunt, but not otherwise interesting.