The print book publishing business was growing by huge margins and raking in ever-growing amounts of money—until now. Ikea has ruined it. Why do Swedish people love lingonberries but hate the printed word?

Hey Ikea, are you selling us closet organizers or baby filing cabinets?

This too hot for television IKEA commercial currently running in Spain is way too hot to air on television in America, but thanks to the internet you can watch it anyway.

Sick of hearing about Sweden's excellent healthcare and education, and looking at Swedish people's glowing, high-cheekboned faces? Well you'll be happy to hear that they're falling for a ridiculous trend: sleeping on nail beds.

We're not sure how to break this to you. So we'll just say it: People in China go to Ikea just to hang out. And sleep on the beds.

The Way We Live Now: Under the thumb of the papacy. The Pope is calling for some super-Illuminati to rule the world economy. No need, dude; we had one already, called Ikea. And it's laying people off.

The first-ever IKEA store is opening in the borough of Brooklyn tomorrow, a development which has the local media all atwitter. Close to 40 people have lined up for the chance to be the first ones in the rapidly gentrifying Red Hook neighborhood to buy mass-produced Swedish furniture. To celebrate the occasion, the…

Before dawn yesterday morning a small group of fans of affordable Swedish design (read: people without jobs) began camping out in front of the Ikea in Red Hook. Why? The home furnishings chain is giving out an Ektorp sofa to the first 35 in line when the store officially opens tomorrow morning. Sleeping in a tent…

There's less than one week left until Ikea Red Hook's June 18th opening, and the store couldn't be opening at a better time, really. Between the sweltering summer heat (free air conditioning!) and rising grocery bills ($4.99 Swedish meatballs!), you could basically spend an entire cheapo day lounging in Ikea's…

Popular pretend-life game The Sims is now selling $20 add-on packs of virtual IKEA furniture to decorate their virtual houses. Advertising like this in video games seems, on its face, to be a win-win business proposition; companies get captive, slack-jawed audience for their virtual ads and products, and game…

Progress marches on with the inevitable opening of IKEA in Red Hook, Brooklyn. That will mean no more seventh-circle-of-hell bus rides to Elizabeth, New Jersey, on the dreaded Port Authority IKEA bus. (That experience was perhaps best summed up by this essay, titled "Yellow is the Color of Fear.")
[Brooklyn Paper]

Eavesdropping on the gays is the surest way to find out what products and people are hot and what are not. Rod Townsend records the gays in and around their natural environment of Fire Island and reports back. All dialogue 100% verbatim.

Okay, look here, Municipal Arts Society. We get that you're all invested in protecting historical beauty and charm and architectural salvaging and whatever else it is that you do, but you've chosen the wrong battle now. Do NOT fuck with our Ikea in Red Hook, or we're gonna get Swedish on your ass. By which we mean,…

Yeah, $40 is definitely too cheap for sex.