{"id":30083,"date":"2006-08-16T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2006\/08\/16\/computer-monitors-float-screen-upwards\/"},"modified":"2006-08-16T10:00:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T10:00:35","slug":"computer-monitors-float-screen-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20060816-35\/?p=30083","title":{"rendered":"Computer monitors float, screen upwards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer made another appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/\">my local public radio station<\/a>. Among the ocean garbage trivia is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuow.org\/programs\/weekday.asp?Archive=07-12\"> computer monitors float screen upwards<\/a> (timecode 4:00).<\/p>\n<p> Other fascinating facts: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Garbage from Japan collects near the United States;     garbage from the United States collects near Japan. <\/li>\n<li>Researchers studying dead albatross chicks have found     60-year-old plastic in the birds&#8217; stomachs. <\/li>\n<li>Some beaches &#8220;specialize&#8221; in certain types of garbage. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer made another appearance on my local public radio station. Among the ocean garbage trivia is the fact that computer monitors float screen upwards (timecode 4:00). Other fascinating facts: Garbage from Japan collects near the United States; garbage from the United States collects near Japan. Researchers studying dead albatross chicks have found 60-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-30083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer made another appearance on my local public radio station. Among the ocean garbage trivia is the fact that computer monitors float screen upwards (timecode 4:00). Other fascinating facts: Garbage from Japan collects near the United States; garbage from the United States collects near Japan. Researchers studying dead albatross chicks have found 60-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}