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There was an entry semi-recently on Inhabitat about how there was some competition to design an amazing house on Second Life, and the winner would have their design built, so I foolishly thought "Hmm, that would be interesting, maybe I'll go have a look."

I had no idea Second Life was so insanely huge and utterly banal. Today I have been wasting an *awful* lot of time sending my mini-me rollerskating underwater, sailing, attempting to find out how in the hell you're supposed to make money, sleeping in random peoples' hammocks, and nosing around houses. I now have in my inventory: a sailboat, a million zillion items of revealing clothing, a beard, lots of drinks, a snake-charming flute, and the batmobile. I did not find any buildings marked for the Inhabitat competition, although I did trespass as much as possible and have come to the conclusion that people are mostly not very creative.

The only almost vaguely interesting thing I found was a set of tutorials about corals by Mitsubishi, which included some microscopes you look at and it shows you actual pictures of corals and some info, and an underwater scuba path which was quite pretty, if not actually worth the time.

Thankfully I just accidentally turned myself into a man so that's enough of that nonsense.