{"id":381,"date":"2003-09-13T12:55:42","date_gmt":"2003-09-13T17:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richardyoo.com\/blog\/?p=381"},"modified":"2003-09-13T12:55:42","modified_gmt":"2003-09-13T17:55:42","slug":"extreme-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/2003\/09\/13\/extreme-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>PCs are a marvel of engineering on the inside.<\/p>\n<p>The shell of a garden-variety desktop machine, on the other hand, is as dull as a command prompt. Users longing for a box whose beauty is more than CPU-deep have invented a new form of self-expression: casemodding &#8211; altering a PC&#8217;s exterior to make it as distinctive as its owner. Think of it as nerd folk art, equal parts Linus Torvalds and Martha Stewart. Modders don&#8217;t just dress up stock boxes. They stuff motherboards into gasoline cans, build containers that resemble gingerbread houses, and custom-fabricate phantasmagoric adornments; they combine expert craftsmanship with whimsy, nostalgia, and a Transformers-inspired sensawunda. It&#8217;s a mod, mod, mod, mod world.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.10\/makeover.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/11.10\/makeover.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCs are a marvel of engineering on the inside. The shell of a garden-variety desktop machine, on the other hand, is as dull as a command prompt. Users longing for a box whose beauty is more than CPU-deep have invented a new form of self-expression: casemodding &#8211; altering a PC&#8217;s exterior to make it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riggedup.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}