Quantcast
Channel: NathanLustig.com
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live

Club Trillion

If you like college basketball and have the humor of a college student, you need to read this blog called Club Trillion: Views From the End of the Bench.It's written by Ohio State's last man on the...

View Article



Would you Delete 10 Facebook Friends For a Free Whopper?

While I probably haven't eaten fast food in at least six months, Burger King is my favorite burger chain solely based on its innovative marketing.They are at it again with their Facebook application...

View Article

Floating Plastic Island 2x the Size of USA

No, its not science fiction.I just finished reading the Economist's special report on the world's oceans. Its really good, worth the read, and best of all, its free on the Economist website.One of the...

View Article

How Much Pollution do your Google Searches Generate?

Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist and owner of CO2stats.com, claims that every two Google searches uses as much energy as boiling a kettle of water.   I have no idea if this is correct, but it seems very...

View Article

Isreali/Palestinian Conflicts on Second Life

The biggest news over the last week has been Israel's bombing and subsequent invasion of Gaza to try to stop Hamas from firing rockets into Israel.Israel's response has led to outcry from countries...

View Article


UW Grad New CEO of Yahoo

Carol Bartz was named the new CEO of Yahoo! today, replacing Jerry Yang. I know nothing about her, other than she's a UW grad, which is good enough in my book!Yahoo! faces huge challenges ahead and...

View Article

Were Flight 1549 Passengers Lucky the Pilot was American?

In Outliers, Gladwell talks about how Korean Airlines reduced its crashes from the most in the world to one of the safest airlines in the world.  He argues that pilots from countries where it is...

View Article

Is Any Party Worth $170,000,000?

The inauguration is a huge national event, but to me it is just one great big party. This inauguration has more significance because of the historical ramifications, but still, is it worth the $170m...

View Article


How Much Does A Hustler Make?

SudhirVenkatesh's book Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor will tell you the answer.I just finished reading it this week and while it wasn't as engaging as his previous Gang Leader...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Audacity of Dope

I shamelessly pulled this headline from The Smoking Gun because I couldn't do any better. Apparently drug dealers in New York were selling Obama brand Heroin. Other brands were "bin Laden heroin,"...

View Article

The Business School Way of Life

John Talton's recent article on britannica.com called "Business Schools & Financial Services: Oh The Harm They've Caused" is a great article on a subject that I have been meaning to write about for...

View Article

Business School Way of Life...Revisited

My previous post from Saturday generated the most feedback of any of my posts so far.  I received tons of emails from some people who agreed and others who thought I was full of it.  I'll try to...

View Article

Sprint, Fox and 24: A Rant

Sprint must be the dumbest cell phone company around right now.  First, they have those black and white ads with Dan Hesse, their CEO, walking down the street.  Who is going to buy a cool phone because...

View Article


"Get Your Obama Check"

When I logged into Facebook today, one of the ads on the right hand side (the ones that don't get blocked by adblock), grabbed my attention.  Normally all of the ads are pictures of girls with the...

View Article

The Stimulus and Health Care: A Bad Idea

Betsy McCaughey's article on Bloomberg titled "Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan" shines a light on a portion of the stimulus plan that I had not heard of until today.  Her article is...

View Article


This is why we should have let the banks fail

Steven Pearlstein writes in today's Washington Post about how the President of one of the smaller banks used some entrepreneurial skills to put some TARP money to good use.Kim Price, the President of...

View Article

Facebook Must Be In Trouble

I recently blogged about the Facebook ads called "Get Your Obama Check."  Those appear to be gone already, but they have been replaced by new ones with a similar message.  These ads are called "Ball...

View Article


The 100 Hour Challenge

My friend Matt and I are going to be participating in the 100 Hour Challenge, a pretty cool contest here at UW put on by Wiscontrepreneur.  Here's how it works.  Contestants have 100 hours to take...

View Article

24 Hours Left

There are just under 24 hours left in the 100 hour challenge.  Matt, Forrest and I are working on our project at this very moment.  Its been fun so far and we are just finishing up our website.  Be...

View Article

Paul Graham's 13 Sentences

Paul Graham is one of my favorite writers right now.  Here's his bio from his website:Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris...

View Article
Browsing all 25 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images