My Reading Log: Interesting Stuff From the Past Few Days (2018-07-01)
I keep track of any posts on the Steem blockchain which I've found worth reading. Here's the stuff I've enjoyed over the last few days.
Happy reading!
Curation
New selections of June 30 2018
by @anonyvoter
"First things first : the new selections Regular Steemians @arseniclullaby @prepstothepros @roxy-cat I told you yesterday that I would add more comics authors… and @arseniclullaby is one 😊 If you like dark (and sometimes twisted) humor, this is the feed to follow. (BTW: I think more are coming so I…"
Curation - Xposed Curator's Rebound #13
by @mirrors
"Do you care to support Quality content, and encourage some struggling and undervalued…"
Games, art, and geekery
10 Great Licensed NES Games That Are Not from Capcom
by @triverse
"Licensed games back in the 8-bit days were really hit or miss for gamers. We did not have options like YouTube to check out prior to purchase. There were no game reviewers readily available covering every game imaginable. No, back then we had to rely on gaming publications like Gamepro or Video…"
Icewind Dale Turns 18 on PC
by @triverse
"How do you port a successful book series that is based in the rich world of a pen and paper game to computer? Simple. You don’t. That is what Black Isle Studios did with Icewind Dale when they ported it to PC’s in 2000 for Interplay. The game is based in another century from the books which frees up…"
Michael's Horror Lase-O-Rama: Leviathan (1990, MGM)
"Ever notice how every year Hollywood greenlights multiple films about basically the same thing, especially disasters? If you thought it was strange when Dante's Peak and Volcano came out within months of one another in 1997, if you thought it was odd Armageddon and Deep Impact…"
Public Art and Busking.
"So, as part of this Pop-Up Shop week-long display I have going on, I was given an hour of sidewalk time to busk while painting. I made exactly $0. Not one red penny thrown into the jar, but oh well. Lots of people took pictures, a few people took cards. A couple people even got content for their…"
Sold Art! Syndics of the Centerfolds Guild.
"This is the other piece sold the other day! Very exciting, that I get to send more artwork off to be enjoyed! This piece is a Rembrandt parody. He made a piece called Syndics of the Drapers Guild. All I did was add a bunch of tiny Playboy centerfolds into the mix, and poof. It's basically one of…"
Take a look a Classic: Age Of Empires II
by @tyronee
"Age Of Empires II Age of Empires II, one of the incredible games and great classic of Ensemble Studios and distributed by Microsoft Games Studios, which shared history with different games of the time such as Warcraft, Starcraft, Dune, Empire Earth, among others. Those memories when you outdid all…"
Harlequin and Poison ivy ☠️ “Bad Girls & Good Vibes”
by @chriscomics
"Bad girls and good vibes. This is some fan art I did awhile back, I’ve updated it a little bit recently though. I chose to to illustrate harlequin and poison ivy, not just because they’re DC Comic royalty but, because of the unique friendship they’ve developed. It’s hard to find a relationship as…"
Learning to Carve
"I'm a beginner when it comes to carving. I've been sculpting since about 1998. I sculpt with polymer clay, making pendants, dolls, and tiny figurines. I primarily sculpt dragons. I did try sculpting with clay that had to be kiln-baked back in 1993. I don't know if the sculpture I created was ever…"
The bride
by @agneslaczo
"Just a weird illustration of mine from the past.
Mixed media. From drawing to digital."
One Page Dungeon 5 - The Broken Dam - FREE RPG Resource
"Hello, friends, supporters, Denizens of the Tower, and random internet people. Here's my fifth installment of the one-page-dungeon series. The objective is to create self-contained adventures/dungeons with all things necessary to spawn fun adventures on a single page. This adventure is about a band…"
Get Yer Free Iron Man!
by @blewitt
"What once was a C lister is now an A lister. I’m taking about Iron Man here folks. This is obviously attributed to the fantastic job Marvel Studios has done...let alone Robert Downey Jr literally being Tony Stark. Bravo to all involved. Another thing Marvel excels at is destroying their titles…"
Automation and UBI
Automation and the State of New York
"Automation is one of the driving factors behind the development of the Manna Project. Many of those involved feel that automation is a threat to the employment force. Over the last year, we saw the production of many studies on this topic. The range of what is expect varies greatly…"
Basic Income initiatives that are in trial
"Here is an article that appeared on Medium.com that lists the some of the different basic income trials that are taking place. It also details the specifics like how they were funded and where they are.…"
STEM
How Did We Become Humans? What Makes Humans (Homo Sapiens) Unique?
by @samminator
"There is no disproving to the fact that humans in this extant form (Homo sapiens sapiens) evolved overtime from the ancestral timeline of some hominid species. For a baseline knowledge of this, you can check out this post and this post . But as it were; there are some distinguishing…"
Poor Misunderstood Exponential Curve. It Gets Better
by @flyyingkiwi
"Let’s start this post with a famous story. Sessa, an Indian minister, invented the game of chess and presented his king with a beautiful wooden chessboard. Fascinated with his new toy, and feeling in a generous mood, the king asked Sessa to name any payment for the marvellous gift.…"
Announcing the second SteemSTEM meetup: Bringing Steem to Virgo Labs
by @steemstem
"As announced in our 2018 summer update, we are excited to announce the 2nd steemSTEM meetup at Virgo! After having organised a visit down at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in February 2018 (see here for the final report), steemSTEM is now bringing Steem to the Virgo research laboratory in Pisa…"
TIL: Cool Mantis Facts!
by @ruth-girl
"Hello there! Do you remember this little guy from The Mantis Concert post? This superstar belongs to one of the 2,400 species of Mantises in the world! How did they get their name? Because of their weird body shape! Their big forearms and their upright posture resembling a…"
Taking a Bath during a Storm is Dangerous- Myth or Reality?
by @greenrun
"If you grew up in Nigeria, there is a big chance you must've heard a fair share of myths and legends. Some genuinely believe these to be true while others, maybe due to education plus enlightenment, may just take some of the stories as folktales. For instance, some think that whistling at night is…"
Crystal structures: understanding the strength of materials from "first principle"
"Matter can be defined in straight terms as anything that has inertia and occupies space (not space, as in astronomical space, lol). It exists in four basic form; the liquid, solid, gas and plasma. The major focus of this work is on the incompressible state of matter, the solid. Ever wondered why two…"
Bizarre Red Velvet Mite In The Genus Trombidium
by @dber
"The search for mushrooms sometimes turns up strange things - and this is no exception. The Red Velvet Mite, a member of the genus Trombidium, is about the brightest insect I have ever seen in real life. We saw this thing crawling around from five feet away, even though it was only a few millimeters…"
Science, Religion, and the Limits of Testability
"Can science and religion coexist? It's a frequent topic of discussion in all sorts of circles, especially in certain contentious internet based ones. Flame wars between fundamentalists and atheists are a dime a dozen on the internet. Our society does seem to be becoming increasingly secular. So can…"
Mad Lad Scientist Heals Millions
"In today´s post I will cover a topic I wanted to write about for such a long time. It has everything I find intriguing in a good story: an unsolved mystery, unknown danger, a daring hero and a well-deserved reward and happy ending. This story led to the discovery of a cure for one of the most…"
Doppler effect - physics explained
by @zen-art
"Can you guess what time it is? It is time for some science again and to be more precise, it's time for physics explained series. Today, I will write about an interesting little effect that happens with waves but before we start, here is the list of posts that I have already published in this series:…"
Rockhounding at work this past week
by @bitfiend
"Hello Steemians! While I have been a little preoccupied with work for the last two weeks, I could not help but keep my eyes to the ground every time I walked over some rocks. So this morning I want to share a picture of each of the agates I found. They aren't very big so I didn't want to get into…"
DMPC bilayer lipid membrane @290K
by @dexterdev
"This is a 320 nanoseconds long molecular dynamics simulation of a DMPC lipid bilayer patch in a water box at 290K. Water molecules are not shown for clarity."
Building a Bluetooth adapter for the Skywatcher AZ-EQ6 telescope mount
"This Post will show you, how you can easily build a Bluetooth adapter for your AZ-EQ6 mount to control it wirelessly from a computer with EQMOD . This should also work with other Skywatcher mounts, but I have only tested it for my AZ-EQ6. If you have your computer for controlling the mount attached…"
Space Warfare - An Area Denial Strategy For Poor Countries
"On June 18 2018 U.S. President Donald Trump signed into existence the US Space Force which will be a new arm of the American military separate from the Air Force, Army, Marines, Coast Guard and Navy. This got me thinking more seriously…"
amateur PROnouns
Today I Learned: Why Do We Write the Pronoun "I" in Upper Case?
by @ybanezkim26
"While having launch earlier, I was reading some articles and I was bothered by that small letter "i" in one article posted here. I have to be honest that I am really particular with grammar and semantics. I always made it a conscious effort to edit my posts multiple times before uploading them.…"
Growing things
The ultimate step by step garden pond tutorial with many pictures. 🐟 A how to, for a home for your fishes and water plant. 🌱 DIY
by @avizor
"Hello dear steemians and gardening fans out there, today i like to present you a how to how to build up a garden pond. Yes you always start with a big pit. It tooks us 2 days with 2 man and only manpower to burrow it out. It has space for about 3000Liters water. The pit can have several levels to…"
Folklore
Legends of the Southwest: La Llorona
by @pinkspectre
"The Southwest is a mystic, colorful land, rife with a variety of legends and tales. Some of these tales, like the legend of La Llorona, are so eerie they have pervaded the minds of all those who grew up with the stories. Gabriel Perez Salazar. Wikimedia Commons The story of La Llorona is a horror…"
FOOD
"English food is boring"...NO BLOODY WAY: Two Aussie's eat their way around England
by @galenkp
"I thought I'd do something a little different tonight and share some of the incredible meals we have been enjoying whilst holidaying in the UK. Coming from Adelaide in South Australia where we have a pretty solid food-culture I didn't really know what to expect from the food here in England however…"
Meat but not animal: Veggie steak
by @nonzerosum
"Meat but not animal is a concept that I’ve really got into lately. I spent the first 30 or so years of my life as a meat eater, and I did love me a good steak every now and then. So when I saw this product in my local Tescos I just had to try it out. At the beginning of 2017 I decided to reduce my…"
Big, beautiful world
Bold Venture Park and Darwen Tower
"After my recent failure to conquer Pen-y-ghent, I sought out something a little easier to climb this weekend and also a little closer to home. Darwen is closer and the tower an easier climb for sure. The weather was also lovely and sunny unlike last weeks’ gloomfest. This tower is quite prominent…"
My climbing Mount Vesuvius. Part #2
by @zirochka
"Hello, friends! It is a continuation of yesterday's story about special day of my Italian vacations - visiting Vesuvio and Pompei. My climbing Mount Vesuvius. Part #1 The top appeared unexcpectedly as I thought I'll be more tired :) There are a lot of equipment like sensors here and there on the…"
A fortnight in the mighty Himalayas on a bicycle! Part IV
"Many moons ago, I knew nothing about cycling. For that matter even now I just about balance my bike and life! This story is about how I got into serious cycling after giving it up in my school days. Previous Episode Recap: On a desolate stretch of road, four big, mean looking viscous mountain dogs…"
Climbing Mount Batur - Bali Indonesia
"I love trekking and climbing mountains, the challenge of looking at a peak high in the clouds and knowing that I’m going to be up there makes me want to run all the way to the top in one go. So when Peter and I were on Bali and I saw a poster for the sunrise trek to the top of Mount Batur, I knew I…"
Somewhere in Europe #18: Drachenfels, Germany (Looking for the dragon and the Rhine treasure...)
by @r00sj3
"Remember that cathedral in Cologne that I didn't like? We went to visit the place where the building material came from, Drachenfels in the Siebengebirge. That probably doesn't mean much to you. But let me translate that for you and let your imagination take you there. Drachenfels means Dragon's…"
Crypto community and steemitself
Yensesa Tokens Share-drop Campaign - Join us as we build and become the biggest decentralized exchange in Africa.
by @yensesa
"In early 2018 the Yensesa team began working to solve the biggest issue facing Steemians and other crypto believers in the African community: Converting hard-earned Steem / SBD into fiat currency without losing significant value to fees & poor exchange rates in the process. By May of 2018 Yensesa…"
Steem Pay Update - Creating the First REAL ECONOMY on Steem Blockchain!
by @asbear
"https://github.com/ianpark/steempay New Steem Pay is release with powerful features for offline commerce. Steem Pay will create the first REAL ECONOMY on Steem blockchain! I am excited to announce that a new Steem Pay is released with powerful features for offline commerce. This version introduces…"
Now Accepting Steem and SBD ( Steem Dollars ) - A Post about a Company Supporting Cryptocurrency
"Our company AustinVisuals.com has been around for over 10 years. By the nature of what we do and who we are, we are always on the cutting edge of technology. We have been recently selected to work on a project called Steem Monsters. We are very excited to be able to bring this project to life. In an…"
Transforming Content Promotion on Steemit.com Through Better Use of the "Promoted" Functionality
by @techslut
"The way the "Promoted" tab on Steemit.com is intended to work is rather efficient. By "burning" the payment for promotion, this allows for the growth of the token value. Unfortunately, it doesn't work and it's unclear if Trending should even be "the real Promoted". I propose a possible solution I…"
So, what's all this then?
My goals here are to foster interaction on steem and provide visibility for good content.
Why not just resteem
This is basically a UI issue; I've noted in my feed that some great accounts which resteem dozens of times a day tend to drown out other posts. Until there's a way to separate author-content from resteems in there general steem-verse (i.e. on Steemit), I don't like resteeming much.
Criteria and format
The only real criterion I have is that the article should be something I was happy to have read. Ideally, it would be recent enough to still be active for 3 to 4 days after I post. A few other other things:
- There's no restriction on category, though I tend to read more STEM/nerdy stuff
- The list is not exhaustive
- If I left you off, it's not because I don't think your post was worth reading
- I'm still figuring out how to arrange topics
- Post order is like the point system on 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' - meaningless
- If you're a prolific author, I might only list one post in full format, then mention others.
- If I post your stuff a lot, I may leave you out from time to time to make room for others.
- If time allows, I may provide commentary on posts, but right now I'm letting them stand on their own merits.
- Artists! I'm trying to post your art in such a way that people can see enough of it to know if they want to follow the link. I definitely don't want to just repost your stuff in full resolution. Let me know what makes you happy.
Call to Action
I enjoyed compiling this list and you can do it, too. Even if your vote counts for nothing and you have 3 whole followers, start keeping track of what you actually liked reading and let the world know about it. I don't think there's a relevant tag yet, so let's go ahead and use #readinglog. If there is a better tag out there, let me know.
Remember, a community without interactions is just a bunch of people. Comment, vote, promote, even resteem!
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Thanks for taking the time to read the nonsense I put out. It truly means a lot to know that in the few months I’ve been on here, people ACTUALLY do read my crap!! Lol. You as always, are a rockstar.
Not only am I reading it, but your posts (along with others in the comics corner) have been slowly reigniting what had become a passive hobby into an active interest again. Thank goodness for digital comics, since physically downsizing was one of the main reasons I didn't want to start collecting again.
Insert evil laugh here...
Ha! So much so that I'm considering attending my first con ever (I know). There's a good one a reasonable drive from me coming up in a month.
Any tips for a first-timer on a budget with a (super-awesome) toddler in tow?
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Thanks a lot for the mention, really appreciated!
(And now I have to check the other posts… I hope you don't mind if I use your hard work to add new profiles on my directory... but you seem to be a great source of information. Are you a talent-magnet? ;-))
I'd be delighted if you used my logs to find people, connecting creators is a lot of what this is all about. Not a talent magnet, just years of experience browsing the internet.
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Pretty good posts!