Hotel coffee cups

A list of small, useful things (links):

• The latest from Stellen für Chemiker
• The latest from All Things Metathesis
• An attempt to clean up the Great Pacific Ocean Plastic Patch (by XiaoZhi Lim)
• Cool summary of a conference by Philip Ball
• Ash once met V.S. Naipaul!
• Over at xykademiqz: Ever tried switching departments at a university?  
• Funny workplace axioms by Th'Gaussling
• Great piece about "hands" and the chemist by Sarah Anderson
• This is really gross but funny (will be avoiding hot pot restaurants in China from now on)

An open invitation to all interested in writing a blog, a hobby that will bring you millions thousands hundreds tens of dollars joy and happiness. Send me a link to your post, and I'd be happy to put it up.

Have a good weekend!