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My parents like to keep the annual IKEA catalogs – it says it is the most printed book after the bible. Yesterday my mum showed me this…. the IKEA catalog from the year 1965.

It is not in the best shape and the front cover is missing, but still an extraordinarie experience to look through.

“Furnish 2 rooms, kitchen and hall for less than 3300 crowns” it says here on the ad below.

Like something? You could try if this order form still works….

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Swiss Franc

The Swiss Franc had historically been considered a safe haven currency, experiencing nearly zero inflation, being backed by very large quantities of gold, and guarded by Switzerland's geo-political neutrality. However, this link to gold was severed in 2000 by an amendment to the Swiss Constitution brought on by allegations Swiss banks held assets of holocaust victims.

The Swiss Franc is heavily traded internationally, and is referred to as a "Swissy" by traders.

HTML 5

Because of seemingly intractable problems with the development of XHTML (mainly that XHTML 2 is incompatible with previous versions of XHTML and HTML and also the MIME TYPE issue), a competing standard supported by Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari), Opera, Microsoft (Internet Explorer) and some other key Internet players has become the new favourite to succeed the old HTML 4.01 standard.

HTML 5 was passed as a draft recommendation by the W3C in January 2008 and is expected to become a full recommendation within the next couple of years.

And that's pretty much all the WordPress Codex has to say about HTML 5 (until now)...

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"Left at the next street. No, right. You know what? Just go straight."

He continued: "I probably shouldn't do it because whichever way I go, I always end up at one place - on Lonely Avenue. Luckily I'm not totally alone. Ray Charles beat me there."