Sorry for the downtime. Things should be back to normal now. :) (thanks Joe!)

Scientists figure out what everyone has known for years.

"Geniuses and criminals may not seem to have much in common but they both do their best work in their 30s -- and mainly to impress the opposite sex....
'They do whatever they do in order to get laid,' said Kanazawa. "

Well, at least I still have some good years ahead of me. haha

Emergent behaviors in the Sims Online

Here's another interesting tidit about the Sims Online. There are gangs of players that offer up their services like the Mafia - prostitution, extortion, and even virtual "hits" that attack not a character's avatar, but their reputation within the game. A quote:

"Piers Mathieson and his wife, Jennifer, are two more hardcore "Sims" players. They log several hours most days.

After the Las Vegas couple distributed photos of themselves to friends, one griefer hacked into Piers' America Online account and stole his in-game character's possessions. Someone else posed as Piers and told other players that Jennifer had died of cancer.....Though the Mathiesons say they dispense justice, their online tactics can be just as rough. The couple say they have ransacked apartments, sent out their "troops" to urinate on others' lawns and once drove another player from the game. "