Find me a more varied, cooler crew than these dudes! By Ilan Adler I recently stumbled onto this amazing picture by way of listening to one of the best podcasts out there; Uhh Yeah Dude, a weekly podcast by two American Americans. Highly recommended. Anyways, this picture is from the 1993 Saturday Night Live show (Season 19 premiere) featuring NBA Legend Charles Barkley as the host and Nirvana as the musical guest. In this
When did you first become aware of Twitter? By Ilan Adler On a recent podcast Bill Simmons was talking about the Mayweather Pacquiao fight with Bryan Curtis. Simmons speculated about what would have happened had this fight occurred before 2008, before the rise of Twitter, social media on a mass scale, and the constant 24 hours news and blog cycle. This was in relation the Internet taking on the villain,
DIY Apple II Watch Project By Ilan Adler I just stumbled into this fantastic DIY post about a guy who decided to create his very own Apple II watch. This really cool project was created on Instructables by user Aleator777. In fact he released the complete instructions for creating your very own vintage Apple II watch! This includes all parts, what you need to create a 3d printing of, and all other technical
Breaking Down Aerosmith’s ‘Cryin’ By Ilan Adler For those who grew up in the 1990’s, music videos by Aerosmith were a staple of our MTV viewing habits. Whether it was the Bonnie & Bonnie hotness of Liv Tyler and Alicia Silverstone in the ‘Crazy‘ music video, Edward Furlong from T2: Judgement Day starring in ‘Livin’ on the Edge‘, The weirdness of fake computer generated people, the power glove, and Silverstone being smoking
Online Advertising Based on Questionable Tactics is Bad By Ilan Adler Ever since the dawn of the mainstream Internet, there have been plenty of companies trying to exploit it for short term profit. The latest news hitting the web, is the Superfish Fiasco, where Lenovo sold PC’s with pre-installed Superfish adware. This adware can be exploited to allow 3rd parties to create false SSL certificates which then masquerade as the real thing.
Discovering Rap Genius By Ilan Adler Back in late 2013 there was a much ballyhooed story about an SEO penalty handed to the site Rap Genius (now simply Genius) by Google. For those who missed it, Rap Genius tried to get people to create Exact match anchor text links to their site, in order to increase their SEO visibility. They sent emails specifically asking for exact match links, sometimes even as footers, in
Tragedy Strikes Nepal Again By Ilan Adler 10/25/14 Update: Another tragedy has struck Nepal, as a bus veered off the road and killed 14 people. This is the same bus route that I wrote about in my 2006 Nepal Bus Trip – Blast from the Past. Nepal has long been one of my favorite places in the world, and a look through the photo section of Putchka.com, can warrant how
Street Art in St. Louis We took this photo on a sidewalk in St. Louis’ Cherokee Street, one of the newest hip neighborhoods there. It features some cool shops, a really cool print press shop called Firecracker Press, and food for those into it. We spotted some of these cool pieces walking around the neighborhood.
Casey Neistat, YouTube Hero and fascinating storyteller By Ilan Adler Me and Shalhevet have been following Casey Neistat’s YouTube videos for quite some time now. Besides the fact that he is now well established and get generous amounts of budget money to do practically whatever he wants, he still has his own unique and personal touch on the films that he makes. I really think that we can learn a lot
A Wedding Card Optimized for SEO… By Ilan Adler A colleague of mine, Shira Blank, recently got married. Shira is the main content writer on the SEO/Content team, and does fantastic work. I thought that I would geek out and have a little fun with her wedding card, making it SEO friendly. Check it out below: