Nathan Lustig

An Egyptian student studying Engineering at the University of South Florida was sentenced today for a video he put on YouTube.  It showed how to make a bomb detonator from a remote control car that he bought at WalMart.  He narrated the how-to video in Arabic and called the US a “vile nation.”  It had [...]

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TED, or Technology, Entertainment and Design, is a group started in 1984 to bring together the smartest and most interesting people from the year to talk about what they’ve been doing in an 18 minute speech.  In 2003, TED put all of the talks online, free for anyone to watch. It’s one of my favorite [...]

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If you are like me and DVR sports from time to time, you know how tempting it can be to fast forward to the good parts. Evan Schumacher’s ShouldIWatch.com is a website that will help people decide if they want to watch their DVR’ed games, without knowing the final score or who won.  It only [...]

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The Freakonomics blog wonders about Apple’s decision to sell its iPhone at WalMart for only $99. Will the iPhone loose its “cool” factor by being sold at WalMart?  Will other iPhone users be mad that they paid $300+ earlier and now can get them at WalMart for $99? It’s a big gamble, but I think [...]

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According to this story from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the NY Yankees just spent a little over $240 million dollars in guaranteed money to sign pitchers C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett.  When Mark Attanasio purchased the Brewers, he paid $223 million, or $17 million less than the Yankees are going to pay their #1 and #2 [...]

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Here’s a list of my favorite books of 2008.  These weren’t necessarily books published in 2008, but were books that I read this year and enjoyed. Non Fiction The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable – Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2007) Pop! Why Bubbles are Great for the Economy – Daniel Gross (2007) Collapse: How [...]

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