There is a basic human need to customize things and make them your own. People add chrome and neon lights to their cars, stick pieces of metal through their flesh, and there's scarcely a wall in any urban area without a healthy coating of graffiti.
But for some reason, electronic devices, although ubiquitous in our lives, rarely get the DIY treatment. For most people, the arcane circuits inside our computers, phones and video games are just not something you want to poke around in. But for a few brave souls, the technology we use daily is fair game for some homebrew modifications. Not content to let corporations decide how they use their electronics, they take matters into their own hands. They are the modifiers.
... Michael Citrome, Montreal Mirror, June 3 - 9, 2004.
