Bogart’s Jazzes Way to Frank’s
BY STAFF WRITER TROY ARISTOCARNAS Great things are going surely for in-world jazz lovers and romantic couples this 2010, the year of the playfully charmful Metal Tiger. The Frank’s Entertainment Group, whose jazz ballroom is billed as the premier of its kind in Second Life, early this year purchased Bogart’s Jazz Club, another revered name [...]
Guide to SL Viewer 2.0 Beta Information & Reactions
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER I’ll just say that the release of the new beta viewer is a very exciting moment in the history of Second Life. It is a major revision of the viewer and turns it into a social media browser, retooling controls to fit in better with how browsers work as [...]
Busy Feature in SL Doesn’t Cut It
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Note to newbies: This commentary refers to the “busy” option you have available to you on the top drop down menu under “World” when you’re logged into Second Life. To use busy and block the main chat, click on “World” then choose “Set Busy.” I’ve been in Second Life since early [...]
Animated Pet Shop
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT Some people have pets in Second Life, ranging from a dog to a dragon and even a polar bear! When my friend mentioned she had a polar bear, it got me thinking about pet shops and how they can’t all be the same–well, they ain’t, ‘cos as it so happens [...]
Wonderful Skyboxes
BY REPORTER MADAME1111 QUINTESSA I found some wonderful skyboxes to buy. There are different kinds–and even a starship is available. You can easily change the screens to a harbour, the alps . . . and every home has about twelve different changeable screens. These have a lot of animations; a hot tub, and a bed [...]
Three Years in Second Life!
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER I’m turning three on the 24th (tomorrow) and that’s a milestone worth writing about. Let me begin with my choice of names! I didn’t know that you could refresh the list of last names and sort through a much larger universe of names! I might have preferred “Mistwalker” or [...]
Kowloon
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Kowloon is one of the coolest places I’ve seen in Second Life. The sim is based on an old Japanese playstation game called Kowloon’s Gate, which is set in a darker side of Kowloon. Unfortunately the game was only released in Japan, but at least everyone in Second Life can enjoy [...]
Zooby’s Ultimate Animals
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Do you remember dogs and cats from earlier days of Second Life? Back then we liked them because we didn’t have anything else to compare them to, just as we used to accept non-prim hair and newbie skin. By the standards of today’s new scultped and scripted animals, however, the old [...]
Every Picture Tells a Story!
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER Just going to run with this backlog of pix I have taken … Alidar Moxie gave me an URL to check out and the first time I used it, it seemed borked, but upon second attempt a week later, rediscover Alien Isles! It has just completed renovations and looks [...]
Midnight Madness
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE There’s a fun thing you can do to get cool stuff in Second Life now. I like this more than Hunts, and even better than getting an outright freebie. It’s called Midnight Madness, and it allows people the chance to get nice items at no cost; but at the same time [...]
Star Dance Dome
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT Falling stars, a warm welcome and a spacious dance floor; that’s what you get and see at the exquisite Star Dance Dome. I stumbled upon this place through a kind invite from Pattisue Haefeli and her partner Buddy Aaron. They both own this quite unique club that plays ‘A great [...]
Cry Baby
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Well, it looks like my prim baby escaped from my inventory. It apparently wasn’t happy being stored between my couch and new outfit from Barerose and crawled out. The baby is now on my desk at Moonletters HQ crying its eyes out. My friend Madame1111 Quintessa and I like to hang [...]
What’s Happening at a Virtual Library Near You?
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER I stopped by the Reference Desk at Info Island, looking for a Bookmark HUD I had heard about. Not only did I find people gathering for some kind of tour/orientation, but among the leaders was Rolig Loon, the creator of the HUD. For people who are dedicated to helping [...]
Win 1000 Lindens at MHQ
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE I’ve remodeled Moonletters HQ (MHQ), and it’s looking quite punk if I may say so. I’m happy with the current indie rock sounds blasting from the radio. I’ve added back the game room, so there’s Zyngo, Daazy, Jaded Jokers, and Jtris to play while you get lazing on the couch. Never [...]
Sixty Linden Sunday
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE One cool thing going on in Second Life now is Sixty Linden Sunday. This is where various merchants put items on sale for 60 lindens on Sundays, though I see they are now including Saturday as well. This is a shopper’s dream, and good for those of us who want a [...]
Go Cybernetic at Paradisis!
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER It’s probably a very well-known store and no secret to many of you, but I came across Paradisis as I often do, by asking someone wearing a striking outfit where she got it. (Of course, from now on, I’ll just click and do what Shauna instructed in Sunday’s Moonletters. [...]
My New Birdie
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE As regular readers will know, I love animals in real life, so this comes through in my Second Life. I collect enough virtual critters to start a zoo. Recently, SL builder Pluto Shelman sent me two parrots that sit on my shoulder. I was thrilled! He seemed surprised to see me [...]
Kuhrang Public Library
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT Bit of a bookworm? Me too. I love to get lost in a world of words. Come to a place in Second Life that lets you do just that. Marvel at, and choose from a selection of classics, Second Life related literature, travel books and more. The shelves are practically [...]
Mailbag: “Talking Bellies Are the Most Annoying Thing in Second Life!”
Dear Shauna, I was thinking about all those prim babies in Second Life. There are many places to buy them, starting from zero lindens on up to thousands. There are special birthing places, doctors, a lot of baby clothes, talking bellies (omg!), baby toys, furniture; all useful to get a baby in Second Life, but [...]
Just Opening: h@QZ
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER So the Q and Z in this new store’s name is for Abbi Quartz (pictured below) and Mikki Zheng but I didn’t catch what the h@ stands for! Abbi creates great punk-style accessories and cute boots. Mikki is more of a builder adding some ‘tude to the design of [...]
Moonletters Considering New Writers
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Do you enjoy reading this site? Have you ever thought you might like to write for us, but were too shy to ask? Moonletters has some fun writers at the moment, but I will, however, consider one more person to join our staff for weekly columns. This writing position is volunteer, [...]
Know Where People Get Their Clothes
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Have you ever seen clothes or shoes you thought were cool, but you didn’t want to ask the person wearing it where they got it from? Well, guess what. There’s a way to know without having to ask! That’s right, you can usually learn where your fashionista rival shops without having [...]
Paypourri: Hello, Goodbye!
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER Don’t miss this weekend’s CommUNITY Faire at 4 Bridges: music, poetry, funfair, light show. The press release promises: “A stunning display of fireworks, live original music and dances for earth and sky. Brought to you by an international cast from Sweden, UK and USA,” including: Junivers Stockholm – SL’s [...]
Free Chimera, AO, Skins, Shapes
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE I’ve been in Second Life since 2007, so I’m not one to usually be thrilled by freebie places. Most of the stuff I already have, or in the case of clothing I wouldn’t be caught dead in it. However, this freebie place Madame1111 Quintessa took me to had some things I [...]
Yabba Dabba Do!
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT That’s right, as the title says above, I have been and checked out the Bedrock sim. My mate Annie Anton said, ‘Jels, you gotta see this place’ so that’s just what I did! Wow the colours hit you first. Not quite sensory overload, but almost; heck this place resembles the [...]
Free High Quality Skin
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE If you’re looking for some nice male or female skin, Cybernetic has free ones available. These are located on the top floor. I only took a quick snapshot for you, but skin covers the wall all around, so there’s much more to see. Though free, these are higher quality than many [...]
Featured Blog: When It Changed
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER A number of the blogs I’ve recommended in the past have been about the dazzling places in SL and provide dazzling pictures. But lately I’ve been dazzled by prose! Not that Virtual Neko and Not Possible in Real Life didn’t have great writing, too, but it was the pictures [...]
Jellie Arrowmint’s Real Life Blog
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Moonletters staff writer, Jellie Arrowmint, has set up a blog which will feature her short stories, reviews, poems, playlists and more. She has done this under her real life name, Rachel Ellie, so if you’d like to see the woman behind the Second Life avatar give her blog a visit. You [...]
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