Delightful Creatures Curious mouse gets stuck in teapot spout Mark Frauenfelder

Games You can play Breakout or Snake on Fellow's fancy kettles Rob Beschizza

mistakes Do not boil your underwear in hotel kettles Rob Beschizza

Boing Boing Gadgets Three months with the cheapest electric kettle that didn't look like it would kill me Rob Beschizza

charity Rare coins and other valuables found in Salvation Army donation buckets across the US Allan Rose Hill

History Why did Beethoven go deaf? DNA testing solves 200 year old mystery Yoy Luadha

travel Here's a list of wonderful curiosities to visit in the desert Popkin

climate change New Belgium Brewing tackles carbon emissions by ditching gas for electric heat-pump boilers Thom Dunn

Coffee Statues of giant coffee pots around the USA Popkin

Boing Boing Gadgets Pour Over Gooseneck Coffee Kettle will give you a pep in your morning step Boing Boing's Shop

san francisco That time Evel Knievel fought the Hell's Angels Janelle Hessig

bitcoin Bitcoin mining currently consumes more electricity than all of Argentina David Pescovitz

kitchen stuff The best looking electric kettle Mark Frauenfelder

science fiction 2017: the medium-disastrous projection (as told by Charlie Stross) Cory Doctorow

military ISIS left behind at least 14,000 landmines when it retreated from Manbij Cory Doctorow

Business High tech/high debt: the feudal future of technology makes us all into lesser lessors Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Backslash: a toolkit for protesters facing hyper-militarized, surveillance-heavy police Cory Doctorow

Copyfight DoJ to Apple: your software is licensed, not sold, so we can force you to decrypt Cory Doctorow

security Putting your kettle on the Internet of Things makes your wifi passwords an open secret Cory Doctorow