As many of you have noticed, there's some Movable Type construction work going on behind the scenes over here, which seems to have knocked out the commenting function for the moment. I hope that it'll be back quickly, and that the various service interruptions will diminish.

I was up late eating Indian food and following the election, with little time to post last night. No matter which side you were cheering for, I can recommend plenty of tandoori chicken and papads. My wife's home-made basmati rice, curried cauliflower, and cucumber yogurt are not (as of yet) available online, though, so you're on your own there.

So for today, I've updated the blogroll to the left. A few inactive sites have departed, but there's more than enough new linkage to make up for them. Welcome to Omics! Omics!, from longtime reader Keith Robison, Molecule of the Day (waving the chemistry flag at Scienceblogs), the clearly obsessed Kinase Pro, and the up-to-your-elbows lab details of Org Prep Daily. And there are plenty more these days: Whistling in the Wind, The Curious Wavefunction, Carbon-Based Curiosities, the Half-Decent Pharmaceutical Chemistry Blog, Dreaming Spirals, Chemical Forums, Mining Drugs, Chemical Musings (the former Interfacial Science), Atom Pusher, She Blinded Me With Science, Transition State, Chemoblog, Culture of Chemistry, and Lamentations on Chemistry.

Man, blogging does seem to have finally reached takeoff in the chemistry world over the last few months. Enjoy!