{"id":6732,"date":"2010-05-11T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2010-05-05T11:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T17:19:03","slug":"frugal-librarian-26-electrojunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-26-electrojunk\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Librarian #26: Electrojunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1897\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/frugallibrarian-223x300.jpg?resize=115%2C155&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>One man&#8217;s junk&#8230;can still be that dude&#8217;s junk.\u00a0 But oh, it can be repurposed into something functional and amazing!<\/p>\n<p>-As of June 2008, there have been more than 1 billion personal computers distributed worldwide.<br \/>\n-The average American goes through a cell phone every 12 to 18 months, leaving 700 million sitting in desk drawers for a rainy day.<\/p>\n<p>Those are just the appliances you&#8217;ve used recently.\u00a0 How about your rotary phone, external modem, parallel port scanner, etc?<\/p>\n<p>Enter the new book <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2224204\" target=\"_blank\">62 Projects to Make with a Dead Computer (and Other Discarded Electronics)<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>by Randy Sarafan and you can construct an iMac terrarium, RAM money clip,\u00a0 and a scanner compost bin among many useful inventions.\u00a0 I mean, what else were you planning to do with that stuff?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One man&#8217;s junk&#8230;can still be that dude&#8217;s junk.\u00a0 But oh, it can be repurposed into something functional and amazing! -As of June 2008, there have been more than 1 billion personal computers distributed worldwide. -The average American goes through a cell phone every 12 to 18 months, leaving 700 million<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/frugal-librarian-26-electrojunk\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[384,382,370,521,147,1184],"class_list":["post-6732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-computers","tag-electronics","tag-frugal","tag-frugal-librarian","tag-recycling","tag-reuse"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1KA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6745,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions\/6745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}