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Old Sep 6th, 07, 2:55 pm   #1
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Check out the NY Times article, Romancing the Flat Pack: Ikea, Repurposed.

Article includes link to slideshow featuring various hackers, including IKEAFAN's splatgirl. Splatgirl had mentioned the upcoming article in her blog a couple weeks ago so it was a thrill to finally see the article.

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Slideshow of "hacks"

Winnie Lam was thinking about food when she made her Chocolate Sundae Toppings footstool, fashioned from a few bags of cotton pompoms hot-glued to an Ikea stool. “It came from staring into a bowl of ice cream one day,” said Ms. Lam, 31, who lives in Mountain View, Calif., and is a product manager at Google. “I’m a chocolate lover, but I’d rather look at it than eat it.”

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