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If your flatware drawer looks anything like mine, it's overflowing with takeout utensils: the dreaded plastic forks and knives, crumpled napkins, packets of ancient soy sauce and ketchup, and -- of course -- lots and lots of wooden chopsticks. While I have yet to find a worthy cause for the plastic and condiments, here's an idea for the chopsticks: over the course of two years a man named Shuhei Ogawara collected over 7,000 disposable wooden chopsticks (7,382 to be exact) and built a 13-foot long canoe. At 66 pounds, it's heavier than a standard canoe, and there's still no word on if the thing will float, but it's a damn good idea nonetheless. (via Gizmodo)

-- B.B.