Left in the dark
The makers of these newfangled long-life lightbulbs have sent a Westmere reader back to the dark past. "I have spent hours - hours - of my life standing in front of the display at the supermarket, trying to translate old wattages into new wattages (and now lumens) and find the right combination of fitting (bayonet or screw), light quality (warm or cold) and physical size. People have come and stood beside me and then left with a sigh, sometimes a sob. I think one died of old age. The new bulbs break when you remove them to swap for another (blown) one and their long-life promises are unreliable (have they been independently verified?). They cost 10-20 times as much as ordinary bulbs. I'm off to some import warehouse to buy a tray of the incandescent variety."
Ghosts walk on Google Maps
Elle Lucciano writes on Quora: "When my great-uncle died, his house got bought and renovated by a young family. A few months later, it was on the market again and it was drastically different to how it'd been when he lived in it. My mum went on Google Maps to show us the difference of his house from how it was before he died and how it was after the renovations. She accidentally clicked the arrow to go along the road and we saw a man walking down the footpath. Zooming in closer you could see it was in fact my great-uncle (his face wasn't blurred out). What was even weirder was when we went back to look at their house, we saw his wife (who had died two years before him) cleaning the windows. They hadn't blurred her face out either!"
