The Tyler Cowen

1. Fun article from 38 North on Christopher Hill that packs a punch regardless of its levity. 
2. Wonderful video shot using GTA IV's engine. Via The Awesomer.
   
3. I normally hate glorifying gangsters but c'mon...

Grand Theft Auto IV Review

Is there any medium more ripe for watchdog scandals than video games? Movies are protected by a culturally-accepted rating system that is generally trusted to keep the more impressionable from consuming the darker stuff. Books, notwithstanding the recent uproar over The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure, seem to be past their scandal-causing prime of the Enlightenment. Even music, which as recently as twenty five years ago was knitting Tipper's panties into a knot, seems to have been accepted by the permed-soccer-mom mafia.