Virtual homelessness

This is awesome. It's a blog reporting on the simulated game world of a homeless father and daughter, Kev and Alice. "That's a game?" you ask. Yup, welcome to The Sims 3, a simulation game where you create people and construct homes (or not, in this case) and neighborhoods, send young ones to school, older ones to work, and help your charges avoid death until old age takes them. Completely silly and fascinating at the same time. (Alice and Kev's creator also has a Twitter feed for them). Naturally I learned of this fabulous oddity through the Freakonomics blog. :)