travel Photographer shows how similar tourist's Instagram travel images are in 'Instatravel' Rusty Blazenhoff

politics Extensive list of space opera cliches Cory Doctorow

Gadgets This 5-course creative writing training is on sale for just $21 Boing Boing's Shop

music Chuck Klosterman on space rock David Pescovitz

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

writing Here are cognitive scientist Steven Pinker's 13 tips for better writing Mark Frauenfelder

Gadgets Writer's block? These literate apps have got it hacked Boing Boing's Shop

podcasts Interview with Stewart Brand on the 50th anniversary of the Whole Earth Catalog Rob Reid

Technology Interesting sneak peek of Vaunt, Intel's new smart glasses Andrea James

Funny Supercut of Instagram travel photo clichés David Pescovitz

surveillance Congressional Democrats have so little faith in Trump's leadership that they've awarded him the power to conduct limitless, warrantless mass surveillance of Americans Cory Doctorow

video A most relaxing skydiving video Andrea James

News Halt and Catch Fire: The Most Relevant Show on Television is Set in the 80s Maureen Herman

books Batmanga – Campy, humorous, and sometimes so on the nose it's laughable Wink

media Tabloids: Drunk Obama resigns, Sanders is a Russian spy, Unabomber has a baby Peter Sheridan

drugs 5 books that bust the myths of drug writing Barbra Leslie

Reviews Krampus trashes the horror potential of traditional mythology in a film that's neither funny nor scary Al Ridenour

data News story rewrites itself depending on where you are Rob Beschizza

offworld Why games need to stop letting everyone save the world Critical Distance

offworld This cyberpunk murder mystery looks lovely, but feels incomplete Laura Hudson