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Well, graphic designer Melih Bilgil's video about the invention of the Internet feels a little bit like that, albeit sleeker and streamlined - the animated equivalent of an Ikea store. (See the 50 best websites...
Joining Pepsi's quest for O-mentum are advertisers like Audi ("Progress is beautiful") and Ikea ("Embrace change"). Trying to make a buck off the zeitgeist is an old story, but these ads also capture a particular mood of today. America right now is like some kind of agitated subatomic particle holding two opposite charges at once: dread and excitement. Just so, these ads convey both desperation--someone, please, buy something!--and the thrilling sense that a big change is afoot in the country's mind-set. (See pictures of the best Obama inaugural merchandise...
...like that would happen?" one worker told the New York Times. "No one expected something like that." But for people who study crowd crushes, there was nothing surprising about what happened at Wal-Mart. It was reminiscent of many tragedies that have come before, at soccer stadiums, concerts and Ikea stores, which only makes it more awful. "We know exactly how crowds work," says G. Keith Still, a crowd management expert who has helped plan high-density events around the world, including the annual pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. There is, he says, no excuse for these...
...have a replacement candidate in mind to be the next Ikea CEO? No, I don't. We don't have a system like GE had, where they pinpointed three candidates. We should have two or three candidates, but we don't. I could have done a better job on it. I think about it all the time, and it's part of my responsibility. I still have work to do on that...
...much of your own home is furnished with Ikea products? About 50 percent...