Remember when the CFL was presented as the Future of Lightbulbs? We'd all be thrilled to replace our archaic incandescents with high-tech CFLs. Just to hasten us along in the proper direction, the old bulbs were banned, lest people go all squirrelly and anti-social and prefer them to CFLs. Then came LED bulbs, which were A) better, and B) didn't require opening every window in the house and wearing gas masks if you dropped one. Well:

In related news of things people didn't like:

The problem isn't the taste, but the neither-fish-nor-fowl character of "mid-calorie" drinks. People who want diet reject them, and people who don't care figure the stuff tastes odd because they're not full-calorie drinks.

It's almost as if there's an aspect of human psychology that can't be influenced by advertising, no matter how much they try. Unless you think there's a magic amount of money that would have made you buy Coke Life and drink it every day.

WAL-MART The New Yorker looks at the impact when Wal-Mart . . . leaves. Some people hate them when they come in, and hate them for leaving. This quote may be heresy for some:

And before that, Woolworth and Kresge's downtown stores drove out some local merchants. Seems impossible it'll be Wal-Mart's turn some day, but who'd have thought Woolworth would ever perish?