Funk Babblings

You can get 75W equivalent CFL's, but the whole stupid "watt=light output" thing is stupid to begin with, you're really looking for the lumen output. While CFLs are still pretty bad in the 60Hz flicker area, they can be used in ceiling fixtures and most other applications (the early problems were with base-up, base-down, base-sideways configurations, which have mostly been rectified).

I haven't switched to total CFLs yet either, mainly because I still live in an apartment and long-term energy savings aren't relevant.

The other issue, is, as you mention, the quality of the light. I use "day-color" inc. bulbs mostly, I like the natural range. CFLS, like all Fluorescents, are very close to true light, but they emit a wide range of colors in very narrow spectrums, i.e. a block of seven colors (due to the chemical fluorescence of the various chemicals in the bulbs which is then passed through the phosphorus coating, instead of the output of a continual stream of light wavelengths that are emitted through the incandescence of the tungsten element in the regular bulb.

/knows *way* too much about how lights work, damn job...
//sorry for any spelling errors, I've been drinking... :)