Welcome to the Bright Corporation. We trade in the virtual world Second Life. Here you'll find everything you want to know about us and our services, plus a great deal more you probably don't, but we just don't seem able to avoid writing. Click here to contact us, here to visit us in-world at the , or just scroll down.
Shan Bright
Chief Executive Officer
Ich bin ein Berliner.
So announced John F Kennedy in 1963 to an embattled German city: most of whom were moved by this pledge of support during an intensely cold war, while those used to the local meaning of Berliner - a jam doughnut - were momentarily bemused to discover they were being addressed by the most powerful baked confectionary in the world.
But consider this: had he spoken in Second Life, no one further than 20m away would have heard him. Those more distant would have heard nothing but muttered reports - "What did he say he was?", "A doughnut" - unable to extrapolate his true and heroic sentiment from its context. The result? An nervous suspicion that he Americans were not only mad but unhealthily high in sugar content, demoralisation, obesity, and conquest by the east. Or something.
If your venue is more than 20m across, Second Life's chat range of 20m will prevent them all hearing you or each other. But place a few Bright Chat Relay boxes, and you can listen to your visitors wherever you are on the sim, make annoucements, DJ, and let them talk to each other.
Protect your sim against the threat of totalitarian expansionism today with the Bright Chat Relay.
(For a more historically literate explanation of this product, click here.)
Why do the likes of George Clooney and Angelina Jolie - Angelina Jolie, god help us - have millions of people salivating over the prospect of burying their faces in a cushion these stars may have left a faint bottom print in while sitting in their trailer between shooting scenes of The Men Who Stare At Goats, or Lara Croft Tomb Raider (or their intriguing joint sequel, The Goats Who Stare At Lara Croft), while you - a gorgeous, pouting avatar with a walk animation which frankly has even you licking the screen - have still to be offered a major part in any movie, with or without goats?
More to the point, how can anyone parse the question above without their head exploding?
To those who wisely didn't try too hard to separate its clauses and so retained cranial integrity, the answer is not because they are more beautiful, and clearly not that they are more 'talented' (a word desperately used to attach a sense of achievement to the accidental possession of freakishly regular features by agents and critics who know which side their bread is buttered)... but because they have achingly cool backing music.
Nothing turns routine cave exploration or humdrum gunplay of the kind we all encounter every day into something special more quickly than a quick blast of some retro 70s funk or ironic 50s kitsch.
It is for this reason that you should rush, gorgeously, poutingly, bouncily, to the collect your Bright Blues Walker, wearing which will mean that every step you take will be accompanied by a blues soundtrack so intensely cool that it has already been banned under a number of regional arms limitation treaties.
(For a marginally less and yet still fairly moistly excited description of this product, click here.)
Glad he didn't order lobster.Congratulations to Baulsem Tempura, who won this month's $1000 prize draw!
Baulsem's profile picture shows him tearing his pizza into pieces in a Second Life restaurant, and clearly wishing he could afford to eat in restaurants with enough spare prims to allow their customers to use cutlery. Well, now he can!
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
The Bright Collar has long adorned the necks of thousands of submissives who wander around Second Life like rabbits hoping to get run over.
It supports the remarkable Open collar system, which regularly and automatically upgrades its own script set. Unfortunately, in recent weeks, a number of submissives have reported problems with these updates.
They were, naturally, beaten.
However, as our whip-yielding arms have grown tired, our engineers have now upgraded the Bright Collar to use the very latest Open Collar script set: including a new and improved upgrade system. The new Bright Collar is available through our .
The collar is free, copyable, and transferable - so if your greatest pleasure is giving pain, there is no longer any limit to the number of human playthings you may accumulate: or indeed the number of rabbits you may run over.
(For a higher ratio of product information to rabbit-crunching, click here.)
The Bright Corporation has always taken a firm stand against seedy, explicit sexuality in Second Life. We've then rubbed ourselves up and down against it, buried our heads in its ample cleavage, and gurgled.
However, it is not everyone's cup of tea. Indeed, many prefer a good cup of tea to sex: though it can make your bits sore. It is for this reason (because not everyone appreciates adult content, not to protect the wobbly portions of sexual experimenters from hot tea) that we are proud to release the Bright Ratings Censor.
Wear this simple, invisible attachment, tell it which regional ratings (General, Moderate and Adult) you dislike, and it will warn you if you accidentally stray into one - and offer you a single click to teleport you to your chosen 'safe place'.
And for those using a RestrainedLove Viewer or RLV, it can also be used to give control over which ratings you may visit to other people - so you might use it to breathlessly enjoy the control of your Dominatrix as she forbids you ever to leave Adult regions, or to allow the in-world mother of your adorable child avatar to forbid you going into Adult regions where you might meet people who get breathless over Dominatrices.
(And yes, that is the plural, slave.)
(For a less internally conflicted description of this product, click here.)
As CEO of the Bright Corporation, and a short British woman (as our US friends would say, in their delightful adaption of the language of Shakespeare) "packing sweater meat", I know little of the culture of the US, and avoid sport as it tends to involve running around, with its inevitable Newtonian stresses. "American Football" has therefore seemed to me much as The Da Vinci Code might seem to a squirrel - inexplicable, entirely irrelevant to my life, but of peculiar interest to many creatures far larger than myself (actually, I'm with the squirrel on The Da Vinci Code too).
So when the terribly sweet Eddi Haskell contacted me, and asked if he could rent space on top of one of the Bright Apartment blocks to place a large sign in support of the Michigan Wolverines, there was only one answer I could give which was consistent with my cultural background and values. How much?
The philosophical issues thus settled, I set up a huge rotating sign showing the symbol of Eddi's beloved team - which he had commissioned in a playful taunt of our near-neighbours Ohio State, who have a virtual stadium in the next region, and who played Michigan a few days ago.
Many congratulations to Michigan for their victory, and in the tradition of the corporate sponsorship of sport, may we express our undying devotion to the Wolverines, at least until such time as another team offers us even bigger profit.
Eddi, who really is a sweetie, has blogged about the game here. Do go see: he says I'm cool.
Prince looking faintly annoyed about
being pictured on our site for no very
good reason.Congratulations to Ifeel4U Luv, who won September's $1000 prize draw!
Ifeel4U Luv, or IfeelU WoaYeah Funkadelic Hotmeat GreatBigLoveThing Luv, as his full name probably isn't but would be quite funny if it was, carries a link to a fan site for an artist who no longer has a name at all, but used to be called Prince. In-world exploration for Prince-related venues proved fruitless, though searching for Purple Rain did yield a link to several venues where one could enjoy golden rain, which - we are told - many residents seem to find equally stimulating.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
When was the last time you stood on someone?
Experts agree that the foot fetishist community remains largely oblivious to the serious medical risks inherent in standing on those you love. The muscles of your partner's bottom, for instance, though adorable, are not designed to cope with the weight of a human adult in heels. Standing their chest equally puts a tremendous and unsafe pressure on both the rib cage and vertebrae.
It only takes a single bone to crack to leave you in danger of stumbling and twisting, or even spraining, an ankle.
The right footwear is therefore essential: it must cup the heel, support the tendons at the back of the foot, and glisten in a way which reduces formerly coherent adults into puppy-like human playthings.
We are therefore proud to announce the release of Bright Boots. A built-in menu system allows you to choose between black, red, blue, green, cyan, yellow, and purple sheens and between square and stiletto heels. They will transform you into a Goddess of irresistible grace and power, withstand hours of being licked and worshipped by people you barely knew several minutes before, and are also suitable for walking around in.
(For a less fevered description of this product, click here.)
Consensual cuddling? Murder?
Consensual cuddly murder?
Welcome to Second Life.Congratulations to Ghost Urnestone, who won September's $1000 prize draw!
Ghost's profile picture is unannotated, and so we can only hope that it shows him enjoying an intimate moment with a loved one and not - as might appear the case - drinking the blood of an innocent and helpless bystander. Either way, he can now claim $1,000 worth of Bright products to enjoy with his beautiful blonde partner, or to help him evade the baying mob of villagers with flaming torches and pitchforks.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Yesterday (see below) we announced that we would distribute free security orbs to all tenants in Bright sky rentals. The orbs work without deeding, without "plugins", and without being hard-coded to any brand of rental system: each orb communicates with a central security hub, keeping tenancies private, while allowing landlords to manage the system.
Well, now we're releasing the system that lets us do this as a product, so that if you're a landlord, you can offer this feature to your own tenants, who'll no longer feel left out, and we'll make some money even though they aren't renting from us. So are we motivated by altruism, or money? Well, money, really.
(For detailed information about this product, click here.)
Second Life is an extraordinary and visionary place, a realm of freedom and imagination, a world of possibility and human expression - and, perhaps as a result, a flypaper for weirdos.
Of course, the definition of "weird" is problematic. Is it weird to delight in binding your curvaceous slave to a huge pink fluffy board and bouncing ping-pong balls off her elastically responsive bottom with an airgun? Or is it weird not to? I'm sure we all know the answer to that one. I'm also sure we don't all know the same answer. (Though I know, above all, which answer my money is on.)
That's why you need security. Whether you want to enjoy your target practice in privacy, or prevent the kind of people who do this kind of thing landing on your roof with a compressed air shooter and a vivid grin, you need security: and today we began offering free "security orbs" to all tenants in our rental sky homes. Make a list of friends, turn on your security, and watch as those who might regard you as either a pervert, or merely a target, are teleported into space.
On the other hand, if you're warming to the idea of meeting unusually armed strangers, or inviting visiting Mormons to join in your play, you could always switch it off again. It's a security system, not your mother.
(For an entirely bottom-free description of our rental homes, and all their features, click here.)
There are, in real life, certain hotels at which it is possible to book rooms by the hour.
They have, of course, many legitimate uses. Reading very short books. Completing jig-saw puzzles with thick wooden pieces bearing a picture of a smiling puppy. Getting out of the rain long enough to dry your nail-varnish.
Strangely, however, their reputation is based on none of these entirely wholesome activities: and popular cynicism seems to regard them simply as "knocking shops", where couples go for brief, but intense, periods of privacy. This is, of course, a very unfair presupposition, which would doubtless shock many of the tenants, if they weren't too busy having their bits licked to care.
And so it is with a certain sense of futility that the Bright Corporation, in announcing the Bright Rental Timer - a rental system specifically designed to allow very short term rentals, measured in minutes or hours rather than days - pleads that this is a product which has many possible uses.
Offer private building areas in your sandbox. Allow private parties is side rooms off your main dance floor. Private changing cubicles in your clothes shop. The Bright Rental Timer allows your visitors short, security controlled stays: a built-in security system keeps unwanted visitors out and lets friends in. And you, the landlord, can offer such places for free, or paid, and for any period you choose.
And so, for the record, this is a product which will be of use to the licked and unlicked alike. But yes, it's also good for knocking shops, because we know which of these two groups most Second Life residents prefer to be in.
(For detailed information about the features of this extraordinarily powerful and flexible product, click here.)
Few things are more annoying than a talkative pink furry unicorn-like creature carefully explaining the latest drama-laden stages of a feud with her decidedly ex-friend, the Gorean 'master' turned trans-sexual dragon shapeshifter, Desmond: particularly as you are putting the finishing touches to your latest sandbox build. When you find yourself involuntarily adding anti-furry spikes to your, until now, entirely non-military table-lamp, you may wish you had somewhere private to build.
Now, you do. The Bright Corporation Sandbox is proud to announce the opening of four, huge, private, walled and roofed, building platforms: security controlled so that once you occupy one, you can control who is allowed in, and who isn't. Just visit our sandbox, and you will see signs for our new platforms, each one showing "vacant" or "occupied". Click a vacant sign, and you will be teleported way up into the sky, out of the way, and in your own 9000m2 private space, to create in peace.
On the other hand, if you quite like self-obsessed but undoubtedly cute pink furries, you could always ask her up too.
(For more information about our sandbox, click here.)
As of the August 7th 2011, according to gridsurvey.com, Second Life consisted of 31,141 regions, capable of storing 467,115,000 prims.
Not according to gridsurvey.com, but still obviously true, is that approximately 37% of these are lost shoes.
Another 34% are improbably proportioned free pink penises dropped by their noobie owners in their excitement at becoming tripods, 26% neon green wigs you tried to drag onto your head but ended up dropping on the uncomplaining brow of a nearby prim pet, 24% "Mercedes LuxuryLuxuryLuxury C-class Car Only L$10!" vehicles crashed underground during the pockets of lag Linden Lab add to Second Life to keep the process of driving their roads refreshingly unpredictable, 15% slave collars left buried in the walls of buildings (often with the slaves still in them, kept by RLV in a state of perpetual and probably never-ending helpless ecstacy), and 12% other assorted dark matter: so a quite literally incredible 148% of Second Life is filled with lost prims.
The Bright Finder can find them all. It is not the only finder on the market of course. But a careful examination of most of them will reveal that they cannot scan more than 16 items, or further than 96m: which might possibly be related to the fact that the scripting language function llSensor has a limit of 16 items and a range of 96m. Rather than put a script calling this function in a box, we've created a finder which actually moves around and, you know, finds things - any number, and anywhere on your parcel.
Ever wonder where you left that sweet collared boy in your private dungeon? The Bright Finger will find them for you - so you can pop down, say hello, and then leave them for another month knowing that they're loved.
(For more information about this product, click here.)
In 2008, Linden Lab introduced in-world web browsing with all the competence of a Chihuahua piloting a light aircraft. You could indeed display a web page on a prim, but - as disbelieving residents were stunned to learn - not only could you not click any links on that page to visit any of the web's other 20 billion pages, you couldn't even scroll to see what was at the bottom of the page you were looking at.
It was like being offered as much as you could eat from a locked restaurant using a straw poked through the keyhole (and I'm not dining there again).
We created the Bright Web Browser to solve as much of the problem as we could. It let you scroll your page, and provided a menu of "favourite" links: but in-page links proved impossible to fix - the Chihuahua Air and Pureed Cuisine Company otherwise known as Linden Lab simply didn't support them.
Not until 2010, that is, when they introduced version 2 of the Second Life viewer with 'shared media', which finally allowed you to surf the web in-world almost exactly as you would using your everyday browser: with scrolling, in-page links, and even flash. The trouble was, many didn't like v2, and didn't upgrade. Our web browser continued to provide them at least some web access.
But each new feature in v2 - display names, avatar physics, lighting & shadows - has widened the gap between Second Life as it is meant to be seen, and Second Life as it is seen through v1. Recently added support for 'mesh' is, so to speak, the game changer. Even the team who created Phoenix - the v1 based viewer which became the home for almost everyone who didn't like v2 - now say that v1 is doomed: and, encouragingly, have launched their own improved v2 called Firestorm. It is entirely Chihuahua free, and we recommend it.
The Bright Web Browser is no longer needed. We are retiring it from our product range.
In its place, we are releasing the new Bright Browser, with a new, shorter, low-lag name, and a simple menu which makes it easy to access all the fancy features of v2 web-on-a-prim. You can choose a home page, create a menu of favourite sites, control access to navigation and other features, and just generally get webby with it. And as using Second Life's new features, it took a twentieth of the time our old browser took to develop, we're releasing it free. Just get one already.
And don't worry: we are committed to the virtual environment and will be recycling the prims from our old model browsers into gags with special tubular add-ons for those who found the whole eating-through-a-straw thing strangely exciting.
(For more information about our new browser, click here.)
WhimsicalCongratulations to DeBergerac Ceriano, who won August's $1000 prize draw!
His profile simply shows this picture, and the words "Dis is me, on a GOOD-hair day!" Clearly a whimsical, quietly spoken soul, who smiles at the world's follies, and his own, and would be charming company until he bit your face off.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
An English saying runs "if you want to know the time, ask a policeman". While it is usually quoted in praise of the friendly helpfulness of the British bobby, some trace it to the stoutly independent men who were the worlds first cops, the London Metropolitan Police of 1829, and used to supplement their low pay by mugging people for their watches.
As usual, within only 182 years, it was the Bright Corporation which was to find a solution: a free clock which not even Dirty Harry's avatar could prise from your wall during one of his gritty, admirable, no-nonsense crusades in favour of justifiable police criminality. It shows digital time in 12 or 24 hour formats, for Second Life itself or any of the real worlds' 42 time zones, plus the weekday and date, and can even chime the hours.
So, if you want to know the time without being mugged, arrested, or shot, ask the Bright Corporation.
(For more information about clock, suitable for all those who think the police do a very hard and difficult job thank you very much, click here.)
Rupert Murdoch being goosed by
Shan Bright in a gesture of solidarity
during his recent Parliamentary visitThe Bright Corporation is known for taking a neutral political stance, partly from a deeply engrained sense of social responsibility which forbids the excercise of unaccountable private power, but mainly to avoid offending conservatives who might otherwise still be prepared to buy things from us and whose money is, frankly, not only as good as other people's, but often more plentifully available.
Nor has CEO Shan Bright ever interfered editorially in the treasured independence of brightcorporation.net, which has never done anything illegal except anything which can already be proved, and which she didn't know about anyway being merely its owner, and not some conveniently deniable manager who is well paid for being responsible on her behalf.
However, as her good friend and fellow member of the International Union of Crazed Corporate Megalomaniacs Rupert Murdoch faces questions in the British House of Commons about his company's imaginatively unpleasant business practices, she would like to take this opportunity to say something in his defence.
She just can't think of anything at the moment.
Thank you.
We are quivering with excitement about our updated Bright TV.
Use it to browse the web, with embedded online TV, music videos, and more, anywhere in Second Life: just rez and choose your channel. You don't have to own the land, you don't have to "deed" anything, and you don't have to sleep with the land-owner. (Though you can if you want, with the TV showing anything from your favourite Swedish hard-core to Fox News in the background... whatever gets you in the mood.)
If you own land yourself, you can use the Bright TV to set the "parcel audio" and "parcel video" played to all your visitors, and invite them to sleep with you, though on reflection perhaps suggesting a 'Fox News Orgy' wasn't most seductive line, whatever lip-glossed, heavily armed, Sarah Palin, the Queen of Republican Frisson is doing on it.
Now with more web channels, extra radio stations, easier to use functions, and facilitating the committing of improbable and immoral acts in front of the right-of-centre politician of your choice... we give you, the new Bright TV.
(For a less frenzied and more informed description of this wonderful gadget, click here.)
We, at the Bright Corporation, wish to see a more giving society.
We want you to give out landmarks to your thrillingly bouncy dance venues, notecards about your positively lethal personal attack helicopters, and free samples of your to-die-for ankle-breakingly heeled shoes worn only by women in SL, or in RL hospital casualty departments.
And we want you to give us your money.
Only $230 buys the newly updated Bright Networked Giver, which makes the promotion of communal jiggling, aerial death, and serious ligament damage (possibly all at once) simplicity itself.
Our Networked Giver has always allowed you to store your items in a single, central server, and drop givers all over the grid. But now, you can give out different items according to which side of your prim is clicked, or even which hotspot. With a one primmed giver, covered with your own suitable textures, you can distribute as many items as you wish through a chain of ads in your venue, shops rented in malls, or indeed anywhere.
Come and see the new giver - with a working demo - at the : and bring on the High-heeled Buxom Whirly-birds of Death (currently blowing up a venue near you, and giggling).
(For more detail about the Bright Networked Giver written by someone more sensible, click here.)
Probably irrelevant celebrity.Congratulations to Kathy Ireland, who won July's $1000 prize draw!
We have no idea if this is famous model and entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, but we've chosen to believe that it is, because this means we can add this picture to our web page and adds a dash of irrelevant celebrity which we're frankly happy to trade on.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
The Bright Corporation has long been proud to create and sell thoroughly disreputable products to people who enjoy that kind of thing: that is, almost everyone. However, Linden Lab, shocked to find that their virtual world was full of people doing the squelchy things they enjoyed with no thought to the effect this might have on the delicate sensibilities of possible corporate clients and red-neck legislators, some time ago instituted a policy of sexual apartheid - not between black and white, but between a continent where people could do what they wanted, and others where people could pretend they didn't want to do them.
They called the former Zindra, and we built our Adultshop there two years ago. But echoing the oft-expressed fears of the major media, we worried. What if a child, with unlimited and unsupervised access to the internet, having somehow avoided the terrabytes of free and explicit porn available on the web, accidentally downloaded a Second Life viewer, created an avatar, and saw a photorealist skin with nipples on it? Won't someone think of the children?
And so to warn innocent visitors of the nature of our business, which Linden Lab exiled to this ghetto but bravely continue to collect tier payments from, we put huge red horns on the roof.
Well, now we're built a bigger store, with bigger horns. Come see:
And if you're an investigative journalist writing an exposé, or a member of a Senate Sub-committee on Naughtiness, please spell our name correctly in your report.
(For a list of all our shops, click here.)
Congratulations to theVillageWitch Direwytch, who won June's $1000 prize draw! Our winner has no profile picture, so here is an artist's impression created by our in-house team, revealing more perhaps about their personal issues than our winner.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
According to the Second Life Bureau of Fictional Research, the average resident keeps twenty thousand items in their inventory, thirty five thousand of which are landmarks.
This average Second Life resident accumulates landmarks more frequently than a Gorean 'Master' (and there is no more average resident) wonders how many of his Kajira are actually women, and indeed what women look like in real life.
Putting the thought aside as he opens his new, boxed penis, he finds a badly sculpted tubular megaprim, an 'Intructions' notecard, and... a landmark. In pursuit of a partner actually larger than the new attachment inside whom to accommodate it, he teleports to "Tarn Bay" RP site, and on landing receives... a landmark. Clicking a sign to the "Tarn Dungeon" yields... a landmark...
You never asked for the vast majority of landmarks in your inventory - they arrived in product boxes, group notices, welcome messages, and the very atmosphere of our virtual world. Delete too many, and you'll lose the one you some day need. Keep them all, and you'll never find it.
The Bright Teleport HUD is the solution. Just drag your favourite landmarks - the ones you use every day - from your inventory and drop them into the on-screen button. Then, to get to "Tarn bay", type "/2 bay" (think of this as like "to the batmobile" - you may wish to punch the air in a gesture of determination as you do it). The HUD will find the landmark with "bay" in the name, and display a map: click Teleport, and you are there, being worshipped by certainly enthusiastic but somehow not entirely convincing silk-clad beauties.
Now all you have to do is suppress the sense of a yawning emptiness at the centre of your life.
(For more information about this product, click here.)
Another Amanda.Congratulations to Amanda Daladry, who won April's $1000 prize draw! We have no picture of this Amanda, so instead we're posting a picture of another Amanda, who must surely be similar. This Amanda is Amanda Waller, the terrifying anti-hero made famous by DC comics.
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Most SL rent boxes can be psychologically classified into two types: passive aggressives and catatonics.
The passive aggressive rent box invites residents to rent your land, and then lags the hell of them for doing so. It contains more scripts than a shemale's implants and is as memory efficient as Windows Vista. A parcel running ten passive aggressive rent boxes has very little time to do anything else, like rezzing your tenant's vendors or keeping their sweet sweet pose balls running.
Conversely, the catatonic rent box takes money, sends it to you, and, well, occupies space. It won't let you manage it unless you visit it. It won't allow itself to appear in rental reports. It won't, in short, due much other than lie there. It has all the dynamism of a top of the range draught excluder.
Uniquely fitting into neither group (where did you think we were going with this?) is the Bright Rental System, which teleports visitors to rentals, collects rent, sends reminders, counts prims, spots litter left by strangers, provides site-wide rental reports, can be managed remotely from anywhere in the region, provides notecards, gives out gifts... and is in general more packed with goodies than the shemale's implants: but does it all with one script in each rent box.
Our latest version has so many new features that even babbling about shemales isn't sufficient: read about it here, and bring mental health to your rent box today, even if it's by now obvious to you that you never will to its creator.
What sort of home do you want to live in?
Would you like modern palewood floors and huge one-way windows? Warm carpets with and a view of the New York sky? Or come to that, cold stone floors and iron bars for that sense of helplessness which both thrills you and has the advantage of putting off visiting relatives?
Whatever your fantasy decor, enjoy it in our newly upgraded Sky Chalet rentals, which now enjoy the same menu-driven texture system previously offered only by our larger sky homes. The new design is also more spacious, with a more modern layout, and that certain je ne sais quoi which is the essense of any Bright home as expressed by people who shrug to communicate existential bewilderment.
So fight existential bewilderment today, from the comfort of a Bright Sky Chalet! (We may have to work on this slogan.)
(For more information about our rentals, click here.)
We are proud to announce the opening of our Bright Corporation Sandbox. As it is in the adult region of Reanna, in Linden Lab's Zindra ghetto of unspeakableness, you can build anything you like: things which tweak, tremble, strap, squelch, thwack, or all of these simultaneously. You can also build hats. You'll find shops for rent ($40/week), ad boards ($20/week), and people building (free of charge). And as access to Zindra is restricted to 'account verified' residents, you'll also avoid teens, 'WANNA FUK?' freebie noobies, and instantly created griefing alts: you get a better class of people in the gutter.
(For more information about our sandbox, click here.)
Rez, set your rent, and find a comfy chair to relax in as visitors to your venue pay you to advertise on the Bright Advertising Board. They will love the slideshow of textures, click counter, online indicator, pager button, map feature, IM notifications, and more. You'll love the tinkle of Lindens accompanying the chink of ice against glass as you sip your Martini. (Martini not included.)
(For more information about this product, click here.)
Few Second Life builders haven't tried building their perfect home: only to be mired in the confusion of editing some script to open their own door. At last, a solution which requires no scripting: just link, click, choose a few settings, and save them. The saved door will open, close, lock, clunk, ding-dong, and can be copied and transferred with your build. At last: doors without tears.
(For more information about this product, click here.)
Fancy a cool Brighteken, the beer that refreshes the pixels other beers cannot reach? Or a Brightamello gooey caramel flexiprim? Such virtual delights are available from the new Bright Snack Machine, a free, gorgeously detailed, three prim dispenser which will entertain your venue's visitors while irritating branding consultants aware that parody is "fair-use" and therefore legal.
They're tasty, they're non-fattening, and they annoy advertising companies - it doesn't get better than this.
(For more information about this product, click here.)
The Bright Corporation feels that it has a duty to fill the world with beauty, wake people to the wonder of art, and above all make as much money as possible doing so. In the same way that a line of panda-burgers would make the bashful Chinese mammal as populous as beef cattle overnight, our passion for profit is painting Second Life in colour. Indeed, we sometimes find it hard not to be moved by the purity of our own motives.
We have reduced our price for 24 prints from $240 - which reflected the SL would make a resident uploading these images themselves - to only $95, and we have introduced six new collections. Tremble among the dark imaginings of Hieronymus Bosch, wonder at the all-encompassing brilliance of Leonardo Da Vinci, have your life quickened by the passion and vision of Paul Gaugin, Gustav Klimt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Henri Rousseau, and above all, join humanity's struggle to keep art profitable.
(Our existing collections, of Vincent Van Gogh, and modern art photographer Admon Dagger, have also been reduced in price, as have our adult imagesets. For more information about our art click here, and about erotica, here.)
You and your partner / significant other / insignificant other whom you really are only interested in for their amazing megaprimmed breast attachments are busy enjoying couple animation pose-balls which are fun in Second Life, but you know would only aggravate your back trouble in reality when... you suddenly notice a noobie avatar wearing Linden hair and more attached genitalia than are traditional for the human male. He's been on your avatar scanner for ten minutes, but you've been buried in a cleavage so deep even light cannot escape it.
If you're out in company, and you want to stop and chat, play, caress, or torture each other in privacy, then the Bright Privacy Radar is for you. Just rez it, click it, and it will make a note of anyone nearby - listing them as 'friends' - and then keep an eye out for anyone else coming too close. If they do, it will turn red and call - in voice - "alert, alert..."
Best of all, it's free. Collect it and keep it in your handbag/wallet. Whether you want to chase them away, or just enjoy putting on a show, it's nice to know when someone is watching.
(For a list of all our freebies, click here.)
Congratulations to Carl Pralou, who won January's $1000 prize draw! Sorry, he has no profile picture, so here is a picture of some money. Sigh. Isn't it beautiful?
Join Bright Corporation Investors too! Each month we choose a member who has our Megashop in their picks to receive L$1,000 store credit. Just visit and click the investors sign. Even if you don't win the L$1,000 prize, each month we send out 'dividends' in the form of quality freebies to all our members.
Make money without doing anything.
It's hard to imagine a more attractive ad short of eat chocolate without getting fat (for girls) or nymphomaniac with no gag-reflex (for boys), and since our Oral Heaven ZeroCal Chocolate Company and Dating Agency ran into some petty legal difficulties we believe this is now the best offer in cyberspace not backed by Nigerian bank reserves.
We've updated our already amazing dealership, adding individual vendors for every Bright product as well as the original multivendors, and switching to new, even less laggy scripts. If you've got a dealership, upgrade now. If not, get one, rez the vendors, and collect 25% of every sale.
Collect yours from the today. When you're rich, you may finally get some action, and no one will care if you're fat.
(For more information about Bright Dealerships, click here.)
The withdrawal method: ineffectual
Apez has joined the ranks of the undead.
Apez offers an on-line SL shop, in-world vendors, and rent boxes, all of which collect money into Apez 'accounts'. This worked well until November, when it was announced Apez was to be 'sold'. Reading 'sold' as 'already spent on T-girls and Sion chickens', customers raced to withdraw their Lindens. Apez ran out of cash, 'suspending' withdrawals and threatening to 'void' account balances.
The site is still live, and still officially being sold: but banks suddenly specialising in deposits rather than withdrawals been tried in SL before: so, if not dead, then undead.
Reluctantly but inevitably, we've removed all Bright listings from Apez. To those who used Apez's affiliate system to sell our products through their vendors for commission, we recommend our free Bright Dealership vendors.
To everyone else... our products remain online at SL Marketplace, and our in-world shops are listed here.
And to Apez, while none of us are as young as we used to be, by the time bits of flesh are falling from our bodies as we shamble through the bar even the most flirtatious of us must accept it's going to be tough to pull. It's time to shut down: if there ever is an Apez 2, they'll benefit from the... well, separation.
Notepad++
It won't attempt to have sex with youSecond Life is, of course, wonderful. Propositions from noobies with unlikely appendages attached to anatomically improbable parts of their body may be a nuisance, but escape the mutant avatars and it's wonderful. "LOL LMAO! WTFDTM?" group chat, and party invites from "DJs" you don't remember friending can annoy, but kill the IMs and it's great. Slow-rezzing graphics, connection problems & viewer crashes are tiresome, but putting these aside, it's perfect. Oh, and lag...
Remove avatars, chat, IMs, intensive graphics, lag, and a net connection, and you have Second Life Lite(tm), a computer running a text editor. It won't chat you up, spam you down, lag you dead, crash you out, or attempt to have sex with you.
We recommend Notepad++, which is fun, free, and less flirtatious than Andrea Dworkin in a Spearmint Rhino: and still lets you work on your LSL programs.
It has everything the programmer needs, including code folding and syntax highlighting, the only problem being that while it understands many languages (like HTML, Javascript, and C) it doesn't understand Second Life's LSL (or Linden Scripting Language).
The Bright Corporation is proud to announce a solution: BrightLSL is also free, and can be added to Notepad++ to teach it about LSL, recognising every statement, syntactical device, function name and constant in the language.
Once you've written your program, you'll have to log back in and paste it into the LSL editor... but, in truth, you were beginning to miss the attention anyway, weren't you?
(For information on finding and using Notepad++ and BrightLSL, click here.)