Doing my third diaper change of the morning reminded me of this excellent Malcolm Gladwell article I read a year or two ago.  In it, he looks at the history of disposable diapers, their science and the impact various elements have had on the economic aspects of the product. 

Shea and I did the cloth v. disposable debate and like all good neo-hippies of the world, we were going to go with cloth.  But someone (Quinn?  Ian?) showing me a Wired article about how each is equally bad for the environment (PDF) in its own way along with the extra complications of trying to do cloth while maintaining two separate households, tilted the pointer towards convenience.