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The Best Worst Commercials You've Never Seen

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Ads, Bill Clinton, Ikea, Worst Commercials, Sperm, Guns, Levis, Banned Commercials, Commercials, Xbox 360, Advertising, The Matrix, Lorenzo Lamas, Marketing, Condoms, Hitchhiker, Scream, 7-Up, Durex, Media News

7-Up. Condoms. Levis. Condoms. XBOX 360. More Condoms. Beer. And... Viagra. No, this isn't Bill Clinton's shopping list. These are just some of the products whose commercials have been recently banned -- And I have no idea why.

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Greener B-Schools, Greener Employees

Andrew Winston | Posted 06.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Values, Employees, Business Schools, Ikea, Green Business, Patagonia, Stanford, Green News

Even though he's been studying sustainable business, Ash wants to work for a private-equity firm and says, "Am I really driven to do this by my values? The honest answer is no...It just makes good business sense to be sustainable."

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How Ikea Manipulated Me To Go Blue So They Can Be Green

Stacie Krajchir | Posted 05.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Ikea, Money, Catalogs, Shopping, Swedish, Environment, Designers, Eco, Green Living, Capitalism, Business, China, Living News

No more free bags people! From now on, those clear Ikea bags will be 5 cents each. Which is already a pretty universal thing and we in the bright sparkly US of A are just the late to the ban-the-bag party.

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Links to Other Diversions and Conversation-Starters

Jack Donaldson | Posted 05.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Ikea, Advertising, Comdey, Youtube, Pretty Boy Bam Bam, Aaron Karo, Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live, Hulu, Bobby Fisher, Blake Lively, Monty Python, Ifc, Elisha Cuthbert, Nerve, Discovery, Internet, Procrastination, Links, Gossip Girl, Living News

The Internet is a pretty vast place, so I compiled a cheat sheet of links for the week: a veritable potpourri of diverting videos, articles, commercials, and music.

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Tight-fisted Ikea Billionaire Drives 15-Year-Old Volvo, Assembles Own Furniture

Daily Mail | Lucy Ballinger | Posted 04.14.2008 | Business

Read More: Ikea Stores, World's Richest Men, Billionaires, Ikea, Ingvar Kamprad, Thrifty Billionaires, Ikea Founder, Ikea Furniture, Business News

In his faded coat, tinted prescription glasses and scuffed shoes, he looks like just another pensioner scraping by on a tight budget. But the man pic...

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The Column of Lasting Insignificance

John Wilcock | Posted 04.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Ikea, Cocaine, Pakistan, Ebony, Gerald Holton, Redux, Mlk, Whale Hunting, New York Times, Red Bull, Japan, Spectator, Make a Salad, Media News

Who has inherited the dream, asked Ebony magazine reporting on the battle between Martin Luther King's heirs for control of the organization that bears his name.

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The Lipstick Effect

Meredith Barnett | Posted 03.20.2008 | Living

Read More: The Waverly Inn Reservation, Christian Lacroix, La Redoute, H&M, storeadore.com, Wishingfish, Cap D'antibes, The Lipstick Effect, Rich Rocks, Estee Lauder, Richrocks Nyc, Jimmy Choo, Cb2, Leonard Lauder, The Waverly Inn, Ikea, Leading Lipstick Indicator, Store Adore, Living News

It's called the Lipstick Effect: During times of economic uncertainty, women load up on affordable luxuries as a substitute for more expensive items like clothing and jewelry.

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Comedian Moves Into IKEA

AP | Janet Frankston Lorin | Posted 01.09.2008 | Business

Read More: Stunts, Ikea, Mark Malkoff, Business News

When Mark Malkoff thought about where he could stay while his New York City apartment was being fumigated for cockroaches, he quickly ruled out friend...

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