the Evil Line

I came into the office on Saturday to work, and instead, of course, I surfed the web. Here's what I found:

Yet another piece about how children don't play outside anymore.

Yet another piece about the potential clash between environmentalism and development. This one is strongly worded but maybe over simplified.

Terrence Tao's thoughts on "hard analysis" and "soft analysis". I take a look at Tao's blog whenever I want to feel like a fraudulent excuse for an incompetent mathematician; I got at least a few paragraphs into this one before getting lost, which is better than usual.

And my nomination for best blog post title of 2007, We'll Always Have Paris.