Well, I've had every intention of keeping up with Second Life friends and continuing to post here on the Winged Girl blog, but First Life has been trumping Second Life pretty much every waking moment for me lately, so while I might put in an occasional post just to be unpredictable (well, actually just because sometimes I feel an undeniable need to ( Read more... )

Hamlet Au posted today about avatar size, featuring a post from Doreen Garrigus's blog "Original Detail". Here's the thing in a nutshell: avatars in Second Life are naturally a little tall. The default shapes are tall, 50% on the slider is quite tall ... but why (Doreen asks) do people stay that size once they eventually realize how unrealistic it ( Read more... )

Let's say someone you know or love doesn't use Second Life. What images of Second Life could you show them that would help them understand what's wonderful about it? Images of beautiful locations? Shots of you doing some of your favorite things? Friends together? A chart of your store's growth? Something completely different? I'll collect pictures ( Read more... )

Second Links is a project I launched to make it easy to find the most active and informative blogs and Web sites about Second Life. I review the Second Links news page carefully every so often to see if any of the feeds are out of date. I've been keeping an eye on the Reuters Second Life news site, since it hadn't been updated for weeks, and as of ( Read more... )

Let's assume you already know about my obsession with wings in Second Life and jump right to the question of why, when there are wingmakers like Material Squirrel and Jen Shikami of Seven's Selections and Seraphina Pinion, along with some other innovative wing options like Coadey Concord's Aurora particle wings, there would be any need to get ( Read more... )

I admit, I sometimes play the "Who's Really a Boy?" guessing game. That's a bad name for it: I should really probably call it the "Whose First Life Self Is a Man?" game, but that doesn't have the same sparkle ( Read more... )

There are a few people in First Life who know I have a Second Life, but none I've talked to about the personal side of my Second Life any time lately. I talk about my First Life in anonymous terms with Second Life friends sometimes, but I certainly haven't been talking about my Second Life trysts and romances, obsessions and interests, with anyone ( Read more... )

Most of my posts are for people who use Second Life (the usual term is "residents" or "resis"), but this post is for people who *don't* use Second Life, who might find it a little weird or incomprehensible or boring or trivial or creepy. If someone you care about is using Second Life a lot and that makes no sense to you or worries you, this post ( Read more... )

Seeing my post yesterday about secrets, moggsoceanlane passed along a link to SL Secret, a regular feature on the Shopping Cart Disco fashion blog, where people send in images with brief disclosures on them. Some of them are artistically remarkable. Many of them are kind of shocking. Some of them I'm not sure I believe. A lot of them I do ( Read more... )

(If you're not having an affair, by the way, I hope you'll find something interesting in this post anyway ( Read more... )