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
How a simple paragraph in the NYTimes shows how bad Wall Street has become By Ilan Adler Like everyone in the past 48 hours, you probably heard about the new company formed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Alphabet. Alphabet will incorporate all Google holdings (i.e Nest, Ventures, etc.) under one umbrella with financial reports for each one. I won’t get into the specifics of the deal, because there are
Shit People Googled after the Game of Thrones Season 5 Finale By Ilan Adler Game of Thrones is a wildly popular show, not much new in that statement. Every episode, story arc, and character are heavily dissected, analysed and remarked upon in blogs, Reddit, and the mainstream media. But due to the show’s myriad amount of characters, plots and whatnot, after every episode there are things that need to be Googled
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
Typographic Illustration of a Quote By Shalhevet Reinman-Adler “Entrepreneurs are innovative, highly motivated and critical thinkers. When these attributes are combined with a drive to solve social problems, a social entrepreneur is born.” Quote by Muhammad Yunus
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.
The Dark Secret of Bing/Yahoo Search Ads By Ilan Adler This is blasphemy, this is madness! This is B-I-N-G! As you may recall from a previous post I wrote about Bing, I am not the biggest fan of Bing, especially not their subpar search advertising program. Even though they have somehow bribed people into writing ridiculous things like this, they are still terrible. I already wrote about their myriad account issues
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