Boing Boing » ikea http://boingboing.net Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 18:56:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Ikea to women: we 'regret' airbrushing you out of Saudi catalog http://boingboing.net/2012/10/02/ikea-to-women-we-regret-a.html http://boingboing.net/2012/10/02/ikea-to-women-we-regret-a.html#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:12:29 +0000 Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/?p=184798

The Swedish flatpack furniture company Ikea says it "regrets" that images of women went missing from the Saudi version of its mail-order catalog. Women are visible in the version of these same images in the English-language Ikea catalog. "Excluding women from the Saudi Arabian version of the catalogue is in conflict with the Ikea Group values," said a spokesbot this week. And, check it out: they're also PUTTING SOCKS ON PEOPLE! (HT: Antinous + Maciej Ostaszewski)

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Ikea makes a super-cheap, $9 articulated anglepoise knock-off lamp. The articulated arm is a useful for anything lightweight that needs to have an adjustable X- and Y-axis. Instructables user Brianandrewparker shows how to use a blob of Sugru to mount a webcam to the lamp-base and give yourself a nice, adjustable camera. He notes that this would be useful for mounting other things, too.

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