I have 4 dogs and 2 cats and I love them all, but I'm going to try to weigh the pros and cons. Just from my own personal experience.

Dogs:
Pros - Very fun, easy to train (usually), lifelong companionship
Cons - poop in the house sometimes, sometimes they won't listen to you

Cats:
Pros - relaxing company, they clean up…

Pfft.

The biggest damage aspartame does is to fool people into avoiding healthy food. This is why you see people drinking endless amounts of diet soda and gaining weight. Try a "juice fast" like the guy in "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead" and see what I mean.

I thouroughly enjoy it when Gawker sites actually post something I can actually learn and I find interesting. Like the article last week on GMO foods. Whether it's 100% fact or not at least gives you a diff perspective. That's why I enjoy Gizmodo & Lifehacker 1000x better than Gawker. Cuz all seems Gawker does is bash…

I'm in the middle of cutting cable right now (literally, waiting for Guardian to update the home alarm to cellular today so I can drop the whole tv/phone/internet bundle). The biggest drawback, in my opinion, is the lack of a unified across-the-board hub for streaming services. Why do I have to manually keep track…

Macros and learning to play with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) coding is like speed for Excel. Don't be afraid to search for what you're trying to do most of the time you can find the answer on a forum and just paste in the VBA code into your workbook.

I don't understand why this topic infuriates people so much. There's always two camps - That bike is slowing me down and breaking the law vs. That car is breaking the law and I can die. They're both valid. Note: I am both a driver and a cyclist.

When policy and planning is entirely focused on cars instead of people, focused on speed instead of places, it destroys towns and cities. Strip malls happen because what should be quiet local roads are turned into 40 mph highways. Instead of regularly spaced blocks, you get single-entrance developments with…

We picked up one of these - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00… - last year and it worked great as a baby video monitor. We watch the feed with a retired iPod Touch, but you could do the same thing with your smartphone.

"and an enthusiastic call to see hypothetical suspension bridge designs continue to play with unexpected sources of stability, include rings, knots, bows, and arches, mathematical models disguised as urban infrastructure and pinned down across rivers and parks like rare butterflies."

Icbog, you raise a point well worth addressing. Finances are never just about money; emotional and political issues always tag along.

Don't touch the SIDES!

Obligatory.

I feel like there's a lot of room for innovation in the personal cloud technology.

I love these comments. When NASA puts a rover on Mars we go "Awesome!" When NASA says here's our global warming models we go, "Al Gore's just tryin' to get rich!" *Face palm.

Actually the models do an excellent job at recreating the observed historical climate.

Finally, a solution to world hunger!

This isn't about me being an angel.

Lego

Whoa. I think Apple may be in the midst of pulling off the coup of the century. Maybe when Jobs said "I cracked it", he wasn't talking about ease of use, but rather how to get ala carte TV channels. After all, let's face it, there are probably hundreds or thousands of UI designers who could make a usable TV UI if they…