Big article on crime, the Mafia and prostitution in Alphaville in the Globe today. Peter Ludlow, the philosophical and now journalistic leader of the virtual world, is quoted extensively. (Though at one point a flurry of pronouns made me think the Globe was accusing Ludlow of being a crook – thankfully not true.) It all makes the Sims world sound like Sydney, but without the bridge, opera house or harbour.