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Ikea Plans to Build an Entire Neighborhood Near London

Ever wish you could live inside an Ikea store? Now, in a roundabout way, you can.

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Forget Bookcases — Now You Can Buy an Entire House from Ikea

The Swedish company has partnered with an architectural firm to bring customers miniature Ikea wonderlands

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Reading While Eating for November 2: For Richer or Poorer

Wednesday’s links talk rich lawmakers and the beginnings of beautiful relationships.

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Australian Ikea Store Introduces MÄNLAND, a Daycare for Husbands

The land of Swedish meatballs, color-coded spoons and squishy stuffed animals is now complete with a hubby-daycare center, complete with a buzzer reminding spouses to pick them up on your way out.

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Ikea Redesigns Classic Bookshelf, Foreshadows the Demise of Books

Citing a changing climate in the reading world, the furniture authorities are putting a new spin on the old bookshelf – by redesigning it to store anything but books.

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Talk About a Knockoff: Chinese Furniture Store Painstakingly Mimics Ikea

They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. But Ikea is surely not so happy with China’s 11 Furniture store, which replicates the Swedish original with surprising attention to detail.

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Reading While Eating for May 11: House and Home

Today’s links cater to your homemaking needs.

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Best of the Week: What Happens When You Mix Saddam, Beef Tacos and a Drug Catapult

Congrats, you made it through the work week!

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How IKEA Seduces Its Customers: By Trapping Them

It’s no revelation that IKEA drives you crazy, but now a scientist from University College London has worked out just how and why they do it.

A footprint is seen in the mud after red toxic sludge flooded the village of Devecser, 150 km (93 miles) west of Budapest, October 11, 2010. A million cubic metres of red mud burst out of a sludge reservoir last Monday, flooding three local villages and fouling rivers including a tributary of the Danube. The town of Devecser, home to 5,400 people, is on alert should it need to be evacuated.

Reading While Eating for October 12: Blenders and Bimbos

Have a case of the Tuesdays? Cheer up with links about The Simpsons and Scrabble.