Continuing the "end of 2005" theme (anyone would think it
was the last week of December), in-game embedded journalist Hamlet Linden reports on the highlights of the year in the
virtual world Second Life. A massively-multiplayer space, Second Life isn't exactly a game, but is a
place where you can build and script pretty much anything -- a giant virtual sandbox.Hamlet (known in the "first life" world as Wagner James Au) has explored a lot of what the world has to offer in the past year, including such intriguing pieces of Second Life culture as private detectives, Tringo, Cory Doctorow's publishing experiment and sweatshop workers. Given free rein in the world, it's pretty impressive to see how rich and complex it has become without major input from the developers.
