Storing per-object data for fragment shader

Question

I have a fragment shader that uses a few uniforms which are set on a per-object basis. Is there a way to store these uniforms on the graphics card somehow? I've heard of (but cannot find a tutorial for) vertex buffer objects--is there a trick to storing the information in there, so that I don't need to re-set the variables every time I draw a new object?

Each object has very few vertices, but they are completely static.

Answer 1

There are indeed Uniform Buffer Objects in later versions of OpenGL http://www.opengl.org/wiki/Uniform_Buffer_Object