Just added: A ridiculously big batch of new observations from visitors to the alt.games.the-sims newsgroup. A lot happens in six months on that newsgroup, available on Google and all good news servers.

Read about newly discovered "bugs" in Sims 2, including the one that suggest Toddlers are a product of reincarnation, the fires that burn sims in other rooms and what do diagonal doors have to do with it all anyway?

Meanwhile, have you ever wondered how fast a Sim actually walks? A usenet poster has worked it out. Also added today: The headmaster who eats everything in sight, three way conversations on the telephone and further proof that all nannies in SimVille are drunks.

Read the extra here.