This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

I Kia hacking is what we've been doing.

And this is friend of the show Sean Cole. And yes, he said IKEA hacking.

I feel good about it.

It feels a little bit subversive and a little bit bourgeois.

It's like being a punk member of the mainstream. Given that our audience is, you know, our audience, you've probably heard of IKEA hacking.

It's the practice of buying stuff from IKEA

and then re-engineering it, hacking it,

into customized, more functional, and often just way better designed stuff.

In Sean's case, that stuff is three five foot high shells.

Sean has decided upon the Callix variety.

Plus two very heavy wooden doors from Home Depot all of which

he is drilling and screwing and bolting together into one big beautiful queen

size Frankenstein storage bed to cure his basementless New York City existence.

We are finishing the construction of the third callic shelf.

We become expert callous assemblers.

The locus of the IKEA hacking movement

is a website called IKEacers.

It's a showcase for those who would trick out their calyxes, their arkles torps,

their flardfels. They can both gather tips from their hackers and more importantly

boast pictures of their own hacks and even a step-by-step guide to how they made them.

IKEa hackers.net has been in the news a lot lately and not for happy reasons.

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