Boing Boing

Surgeons Confirm IKEA Pencil Acceptable Bone-Cutting Tool

The free IKEA pencil — the little stub in the box next to the maps and measuring tapes — has changed color over the years, from blue to yellow to bare wood, but never its dimensions: 7 by 87 millimeters. IKEA orders 5.2 million of them a year for its Canadian stores alone. Read…