{"id":5935,"date":"2024-12-31T17:24:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T01:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5935"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:01:05","slug":"favorite-open-culture-posts-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5935","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Open Culture posts of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1994\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1984-Radio-Shack-catalog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5938\" style=\"width:500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1984-Radio-Shack-catalog.jpg 1920w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1984-Radio-Shack-catalog-768x798.jpg 768w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/1984-Radio-Shack-catalog-1479x1536.jpg 1479w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/center><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For nearly thirteen years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">Open Culture<\/a>, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/08\/browse-64-years-of-radioshack-catalogs-free-online.html\">Browse 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs Free Online \u2026 and Revisit the History of American Consumer Electronics<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/07\/how-choose-your-own-adventure-books-became-beloved-among-generations-of-readers.html\">How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Became Beloved Among Generations of Readers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/08\/how-olivetti-designed-the-first-personal-computer-in-history-the-programma-101-1965.html\">How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/04\/learn-the-korean-language-with-hundreds-of-episodes-of-lets-speak-korean-free-online.html\">Learn the Korean Language with Hundreds of Episodes of <em>Let\u2019s Speak Korean<\/em> Free Online<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/07\/martin-mull-rip-satirically-interviews-a-young-tom-waits-on-fernwood-2-night-1977.html\">Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on <em>Fernwood 2 Night<\/em> (1977)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/10\/revisit-episodes-of-liquid-television-mtvs-90s-showcase-of-funny-irreverent-bizarre-animation.html\">Revisit Episodes of <em>Liquid Television<\/em>, MTV\u2019s 90s Showcase of Funny, Irreverent &amp; Bizarre Animation<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/05\/rip-david-sanborn-tv-show-night-music.html\">RIP David Sanborn: See Him Play Alongside Miles Davis, Randy Newman, Sun Ra, Leonard Cohen and Others on His TV Show <em>Night Music<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/08\/what-it-takes-to-pass-the-knowledge-the-insanely-hard-exam-to-become-a-london-taxicab-driver.html\">What It Takes to Pass \u201cthe Knowledge,\u201d the \u201cInsanely Hard\u201d Exam to Become a London Taxicab Driver<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/06\/when-a-drunken-charles-bukowski-walked-off-the-prestigious-french-talk-show-apostrophes-1978.html\">When a Drunken Charles Bukowski Walked Off the Prestigious French Talk Show <em>Apostrophes<\/em> (1978)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/04\/why-the-short-lived-calvin-and-hobbes-is-still-one-of-the-most-beloved-and-influential-comic-strips.html\">Why the Short-Lived <em>Calvin and Hobbes<\/em> Is Still One of the Most Beloved &amp; Influential Comic Strips<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also&nbsp;my ten favorite Open Culture posts of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4718\">2012<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4721\">2013<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4725\">2014<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4728\">2015<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4577\">2016<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4321\">2017<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4571\">2018<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=4925\">2019<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5233\">2020<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5594\">2021<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5750\">2022<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=5824\">2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For nearly thirteen years now, I\u2019ve written a post every weekday at\u00a0Open Culture, usually to do with literature, film, music, art, architecture, television, radio, or language. Here are ten of my favorites from the more than 250 I wrote in 2024: See also&nbsp;my ten favorite Open Culture posts of&nbsp;2012,&nbsp;2013,&nbsp;2014,&nbsp;2015,&nbsp;2016,&nbsp;2017,&nbsp;2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5935"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6056,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5935\/revisions\/6056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}