Quickhit

[A towel that is in the form of a pill](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/pill-towel-do-not-take-on-any-stomach-241299.php).

[The boring store in Chicago](http://www.methodsreporter.com/2007/02/27/826chi-boring-store-eggers/). Certainly not a spy store.

[Bake your own chess set](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/play-your-chess-and-eat-it-too-241017.php).

A [picture from the frontiers of atomic force microscopy](http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11272&feedId=online-news_rss20). ([Via](http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/02/atomic-force-microscope-takes-a-closer-look-at-individual-atoms/))

[Just as soon as I have enough money for seven screens](http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/every-nerds-dream-desk-setup-240775.php).

[A new journal with an interesting refereeing strategy](http://andrewleigh.com/?p=1353). Hope it works.

Apparently [L. Ron Hubbard didn't believe calculus worked](http://www.rr.cistron.nl/xenu/quotes.htm#calculus). ([Via](http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2007/02/23/scientology-nuttiness-part-dydx-calculus/))

[Two great cartoons](http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/02/my_two_favorite.html) from Brad DeLong.

Nice explanation from John Quiggin about [why happiness measurement just doesn't work](http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/22/whats-wrong-with-happiness-measurement/).

East Germany still lives, with [one island left in the Carribean](http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/79-east-germany-lives-on-as-a-tiny-carribean-island/).