Stinky Sock
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT It was my turn to clean up at the indie club AAi, and after picking up the empties and giving the place a sweep, I dared to venture into the hidden room. The place is usually all right with just a few empty barrels and the odd mis-placed noob, but [...]
2010 ‘It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time!’
BY WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER Second Life seems to bring out the crazy gene in some people and I suppose I fall into that category. Perhaps it’s the daft situations you sometimes find yourself in, or the equally daft people you can find yourself around or it may just be that Second Life offers opportunities for [...]
Start New Year @ E & D Engineering
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER “Be There, Or Be… a Cube!” so says the notecard announcing the premiere live concert in the Prime 3D Event Series. The Overlook Lounge will host SL pianist Rulie Cisse, who will perform realtime piano improvisations, movie soundtracks, and popular music. She will be giving a ninety-minute concert at [...]
Susa Bubble
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Reporter Madame1111 Quintessa sent me a notecard with info on one of her favorite places in Second Life, a surreal art landscape featuring a girl named Susa Bubble. When I first arrived I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I saw water everywhere and images of little naked bald girls [...]
Winter Wonderland
BY WRITER LACEWING MESMERISER What sums up Christmas for you? Take the link to Winter Wonderland and walk through the snow tunnels and round drifts to find gifts round Christmas trees, Victorian shops, roaring fires, Hollywood, carol singers, Dickens, Tim Burton, Aslan and more. Wrap up warm though, it’s been snowing hard! Open until January [...]
Tis the Season … Peace on Earth!
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER It’s the season for giving. At the same time, so close to the end of the year, it’s a season for looking back and savoring the good times and putting the bad times in perspective. My Christian perspective is very focused on the giving, particularly the ultimate gift that [...]
Christmas Song Dedications
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Christmas is upon us and so I’m dedicating songs to you all. First, to the Penny Lanes I dedicate To the Moonletters readers. To all my mod friends. To those who dislike Santa. This Korn version of Kidnap the Sandy Claws rocks! To Moonletters staff and all my friends! To the [...]
Breaking News: Rod Humble Becomes CEO of Linden Lab
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Rod Humble has been announced as the new CEO of Linden Lab. His bio: Rod Humble is Chief Executive Officer at Linden Lab, and he leads the company’s strategy and the development of Second Life. Humble’s 20-year career in the game development industry has included work on more than 200 games. [...]
Gemin-I?
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT What star sign are you? In real life I’m a Gemini. I think I possess a lot of the traits associated with Geminis: I’m always wanting to learn new things, I’m a tad mischievous at times, I love languages and being able to communicate in different ways. But what about [...]
What It’s Like to Be a Man
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Second Life allows us the unique opportunity to present ourselves as a gender different from our own. While I don’t believe use of the opposite gender in SL can really tell us what it’s like–I don’t think that can be accomplished with pixels–it can still give a little taste of it. [...]
LOGO: Eyes and Nails Reconsidered
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER As promised on Saturday, I continue looking at the new LOGO store. The store also sells very nice jewelry that includes a nifty HUD for handling putting it on and taking it off. I tend to stick with just a few items in terms of jewelry and maybe something [...]
Another Year in SL
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Guess what? I have been in Second Life for coming up on four years now. It feels like a lifetime. In some ways there’s this sensation that time goes faster in Second Life–an hour can pass in what appears the blink of an eye–and yet if I get to know a [...]
Mohawk and Outfit For Men
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Recently I heard a guy say he wanted to get a mohawk. Well here you have it, and it includes clothes and accessories. If you buy it today it is only sixty lindens. Get it inworld: Juice Mainstore
LOGO: The Body Politik Is Reborn
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER I found that I had copied some notecard text as is my habit and named the file LOGO, putting it in my Moonetters/Text directory for later prompting. I’m completely blank on where it came from! I did a search since the landmarks don’t translate out from a notecard, and [...]
Alternative Reality
BY WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER Did you know that there’s more to life than, well, Second Life? To be perfectly honest, the thought never really crossed my mind – I had a vague idea that there were other virtual worlds somewhere out there but there was always so much to learn and discover about Second Life [...]
Doctor SL
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT Real life has been sucky of late for reasons I will not go into, but at times like these Second Life rears its wonderful head and beckons me in. ’Come join me where you can pretend to be ok, where you can hide behind an alt that hardly anyone knows, [...]
Best Low Prim Livingroom
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Looking for a high quality livingroom set, but don’t have prims to spare? Primsavers is the place to go. They’re released a new livingroom set called “Farah” and not only is it just 12 prims total, but you can change the texture of the cushions and the wood, making it look [...]
Twelve Days of Christmas
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER Sorry! You’ve already missed a day, but get over to Exodi & WoE for their twelve days of Christmas event. Go ahead, use the SLurl at the bottom of the article; I’ll wait. They are giving away twelve sets of presents under their tree in the center of the [...]
Ultimate Christmas Lights
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE Want Christmas lights with some depth but need them to be low prim? The ultimate Christmas lights may look like they have a few prims, and in the old days one string like this would take no less than thirteen. Due to the miracle of sculpted prims, however, Ultimate Christmas lights [...]
Men and Fashion
BY WRITER LACEWING MESMERISER Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and I was in infants school, I clearly remember thinking that I was so glad I was a little girl because I wouldn’t want to grow up to be a man and wear such dull clothes. Things have changed significantly of course, and guys can [...]
Fetish Art Show & Diloba Arthouse Previews
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER My lovely friend Sasara Klaar is among the artists exhibiting at Darkadia for the next month. I can’t really show much of the artwork on our PG-rated page since the theme is Fetish. Among the artists in the show are Feathers Boa, whom I have written about before, whose [...]
Trinity
BY WRITER SHANE WILDMIST I have been to hell. Now don’t get judgmental, I just went there for a visit. The simulation is called Trinity, and it’s a roleplaying sim which is a home for angels, demons, the fallen, mermaids, the seven sin sisters, humans, faun, fae, elf, lycan, vampire, dragons and nekos. The moment [...]
I’ll Have a ‘P’ Please
BY STAFF WRITER JELLIE ARROWMINT Well I’ll be dayamed! Second Life sure does cater for every necessity. There I was perusing what Michigan Shack has to offer, when I came across something we look for when nature calls. That’s right, a lavvy, a jon, the throne. It always amuses me when I see such things [...]
The Eye of the Beholder
BY WRITER FERAL MOSSRIDER There are some quite beautiful places to be explored and experienced in Second Life – places where their creators have invested time and effort to produce something that is both aesthetically and emotionally pleasing for the visitor. Some are based on real world locations, others are conjured solely from the imagination, [...]
Another Day of Truth
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER Carrying on my Tuesday Day of Truth installments: Day 17, A book you’ve read that changed your views on something. Here’s one that pretty tough. My operator reads alot of books, and some more than once; maybe it’s her weak mind, but a number of books have influenced her. [...]
Linus Radford Releases New Video
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE My friend Randal Prater, known as Linus Radford inworld, has released a new video. He’s used Second Life imagery for it this, so thought I’d share some of the “king of mope” with you. Some history on Randal/Linus: He initially found me back in 2007 because we’re both musicians and he [...]
*PICKLES* Spirit of Christmas Collection
BY REPORTER MADAME1111 QUINTESSA Get your free Christmas decorations, and sit comfortably while you wait for Santa Claus. Available on SL Marketplace: Spirit of Christmas Collection
My New Family
BY CHIEF STAFF WRITER PAYPABAK WRITER I have been in several families in Second Life. Besides roleplaying families or factions, I have been in the Stormriders, a group of girls headed by Kim Broome, whom I hardly see anymore. I would definitely call my friends at Moonletters family, as well. (I know one staffer even [...]
The Joy of Griefers
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE A few years ago I ran a popular online forum for indie musicians. My band mate and I started it with the best of intentions, and having experienced other online boards knew what we liked and what we didn’t like when it came to running things. With wide-eyed idealism we intended [...]
IM Hell
BY EDITOR SHAUNA SKYE They say women are better at multitasking than men. Maybe this is true, but I don’t think that stereotype applies to me. If I’m in Second Life and have someone standing in front of me talking, then I get a couple of IMs, I start to lose my ability to function [...]
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