Above the dining area of my apartment hangs a five-armed chandelier, which until today held five bare incandescent lightbulbs. When I moved in, I thought it was the most hideous lighting fixture I had ever seen. I couldn't imagine how a functional device could be uglier, more tasteless or, oddly enough, more laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Well, today my superintendent entered all the units in the building and changed the lightbulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs... including the five bulbs in my dining-area chandelier.

( Behold, the ugliest chandelier in the world )