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Let's not be too polar: facelights, used sagely, can provide nuances and hues to enhance your avatar appearance. But unless you have good reason (e.g., you're the only one around), there's no need to hog multiple facelights:
If you've ever been in a store and trying to shop when suddenly, the walls light up like the LHC is ending the world — just kidding — making it hard for you to enjoy the immersive environment, you know what I mean.
Thankfully, Second Life has a lot of choices, and in the NEW! 1.21 Release Candidate (DOWNLOAD THE TEST VIEWER HERE… it's NOT the "main viewer"), is a new feature. You can turn off facelights with Advanced menu > Rendering > Attached Lights. You can also do it for particle-emitting attachments.
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Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo.
At first blush, it seems absurd. At second blush, you may be blushing precisely because of how obvious it is. I thought about this possibility shortly after reading about the rumored new visualizer in iTunes 8. While not a revolutionary leap, consider the gap: most VJ (Video Jockey) software is hard to use but can produce spectacular effects. Their much simpler siblings, music visualizers which "read" the music to provide trippy animations which match what you're hearing, offer some of the same effects but with a limited degree of control — you may be able to cycle through visualizations at the touch of a key like MilkDrop can, but compositing and other fundamentals of a full-fledged VJ program are out of the question.
Why does this make sense? I'll explain: several years ago, it seemed laughable that Apple would enter the audio sequencer market — there were plenty of fine 3rd-party solutions, including Emagic's Logic line. Well, in 2002, Apple bought Emagic, and Logic went Mac-only. Further in the timeline, Apple took the guts of Logic and wove it into GarageBand, an easy way of making your own music, and the audio studio equivalent to what iPhoto does for budding photographers, or what iMovie does for aspiring filmmakers.
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