ultrascience labs
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lab notes
Research articles and blog posts, some of it evergreen. Included archived blog posts restored from previous website incarnations.
r & d
Work logs for past and present hobby projects. Case mods, electronics, models, woodworking, vintage audio.
linkroll
A cultivated collection of link to sites of all types. Currently working on a linkroll and directories section - a linkroll of linkrolls.
current news
RSS headlines. Sources are subject to change. I try to use sources that are relatively resource light, and produce feed XML docs that aren't ridiculously boated. As usual, tread carefully in the comments sections, for example slashdot is a good source for headlines, but the comment section is full of Libertarians.
slashdot
- Louvre Museum In Paris to Discontinue Nintendo 3DS Audio Guides - 2025-04-03 19:20
- DeepMind Details All the Ways AGI Could Wreck the World - 2025-04-03 18:40
- Air Conditioning, Not Data Centers, Driving Global Energy Demand Growth - 2025-04-03 18:00
- US Stock Markets See Worst Day Since Covid Pandemic - 2025-04-03 17:42
- Intel, TSMC Tentatively Agree To Form Chipmaking Joint Venture - 2025-04-03 17:20
hackaday
- The Weird Way A DEC Alpha Boots - 2025-04-03 18:00
- Teardown of a Scam Ultrasonic Cleaner - 2025-04-03 15:00
- Australia’s Silliac Computer - 2025-04-03 13:30
- Ditto That - 2025-04-03 12:00
- MIT Wants You to Secure Your Hardware Designs - 2025-04-03 10:30
neatorama
- Airline Offers Snails and Garlic Ice Cream to Paris-Bound Passengers - 2025-04-03 12:23
- Pickle Fountains Are the Ultimate Party Food Presentation - 2025-04-03 07:28
- For the First Time, Humans Have Viewed Antarctica from Space - 2025-04-03 07:13
- The Earth, If It Were Rotated 90° - 2025-04-03 05:23
- Can You Identify This Ghibli Film by Its Color Palette? - 2025-03-31 08:32
NPR
- 19 states sue over Trump's voting executive order, arguing it's unconstitutional - 2025-04-03 17:30
- Trump takes aim at trade deficits. Are they actually bad? - 2025-04-03 17:08
- Russia escapes Trump Tariffs, as envoy pushes deals with Washington - 2025-04-03 17:02
- Judge considers 'contempt' after Trump officials stonewall ruling on migrant removal flights - 2025-04-03 16:33
- On top of layoffs, HHS ordered to cut 35% of spending on contracts - 2025-04-03 16:19
jacobin
- The Communists Who Told the World About Suharto’s Crimes - 2025-04-03 09:01
- Twilight of the Stock Jockeys - 2025-04-03 07:46
- Federal Worker Layoffs Will Affect the Entire US - 2025-04-03 07:10
- Trump’s Protectionist Turn Is a Death Blow for Neoliberalism - 2025-04-03 05:46
- Public Housing Is the Only Cure for Europe’s Housing Crisis - 2025-04-03 04:02
africa is a country
- The cost of care - 2025-04-03 07:00
- The memory keepers - 2025-04-02 07:00
- Making films against amnesia - 2025-04-01 08:00
- Liberal internationalism after USAID - 2025-03-31 08:00
- Criminalizing poverty in Nigeria - 2025-03-28 04:00
404media
- Podcast: OpenAI's Studio Ghibli AI Is 'An Insult to Life Itself' - 2025-04-03 11:25
- 'Sea of Idiocy:' Economists Say Trump Tariffs Will Raise Price of Switch 2 and Everything Else - 2025-04-03 11:03
- T-Mobile Shows Users the Names, Pictures, and Exact Locations of Random Children - 2025-04-02 11:56
- 'I Want to Make You Immortal:' How One Woman Confronted Her Deepfakes Harasser - 2025-04-02 09:35
- Vibe Coded AI App Generates Recipes for Cyanide Ice Cream and Cum Soup - 2025-04-02 08:52
techdirt
- Ctrl-Alt-Speech: World Wide Wedge Issue - 2025-04-03 17:31
- Anchorage Police Department: AI-Generated Police Reports Don’t Save Time - 2025-04-03 15:47
- Massive Expansion Of Italy’s Piracy Shield Underway Despite Growing Criticism Of Its Flaws - 2025-04-03 14:23
- Iowa Book Ban Law Again Mostly Dead Following Return Trip To Federal Court - 2025-04-03 13:10
- Daily Deal: uTalk Language Learning - 2025-04-03 13:04
the register personal tech
- Mediatek wants to make Chromebooks more like Copilot+ PCs - 2025-04-03 09:15
- Mozilla is rolling Thundermail, a Gmail, Office 365 rival - 2025-04-01 19:49
- Microsoft to mark five decades of Ctrl-Alt-Deleting the competition - 2025-04-01 10:32
- LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite - 2025-03-31 09:32
- Nvidia's latest AI PC boxes sound great – if you're a data scientist with $3,000 to spare - 2025-03-31 08:01
sciencedaily
- Climate change and prehistoric human populations: Eastward shift of settlement areas at the end of the last ice age - 2025-04-03 13:39
- Successful therapy confirmed for newborns with the fatal metabolic disorder MoCD type A - 2025-04-03 13:39
- MIT engineers develop a way to mass manufacture nanoparticles that deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors - 2025-04-03 13:38
- Researchers find intestinal immune cell prevents food allergies - 2025-04-03 13:38
- New vaccine concept tackles harmful bacteria in the intestine - 2025-04-03 13:38
space.com
- SpinLaunch wants to send 250 broadband 'microsatellites' to orbit with a single launch - 2025-04-03 17:00
- I'm going to a huge astronomy expo to see the latest telescope tech this weekend. I won't be alone. - 2025-04-03 16:45
- NASA's Artemis 2 astronauts reveal moon mission patch to honor 'AII' - 2025-04-03 16:00
- SpaceX fires up used Super Heavy booster ahead of 9th Starship test flight (photos, videos) - 2025-04-03 15:13
- True Anomaly to launch 1st deep-space security missions with autonomous Jackal satellites in 2026 - 2025-04-03 15:00
space news
- Startups demonstrate in-orbit satellite autonomy - 2025-04-03 16:03
- U.S. Space Force chief: China’s capabilities in orbit a ‘destabilizing force’ - 2025-04-03 15:39
- Space Sustainability and Orbital Traffic Management – A Conversation with Aarti Holla-Maini (replay) - 2025-04-03 14:20
- Exail unveils Spacelink-PCE, a new propagation channel emulator for satellite communication enhanced - 2025-04-03 13:19
- Do we need highways for space? - 2025-04-03 12:55
phys.org
- On water recycling, Nevada leads other states, report finds - 2025-04-03 15:41
- 'Making memories' via social media is an increasingly 'crucial' part of live events - 2025-04-03 15:30
- Dialysis device that uses nanoelectrokinetic technology could be used as portable artificial kidney - 2025-04-03 15:20
- SMEs' ability to innovate is strongly tied to the learning and decision-making skills of managers - 2025-04-03 15:03
- What you do before and during a tornado could mean the difference between life and death - 2025-04-03 15:00
onion latest
- Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering - 2025-04-03 15:56
- Communion Wafer ‘Miracle’ Turns Out To Be Bacteria - 2025-04-03 15:06
- CNBC Hosts Sit In Stunned Silence For 19th Consecutive Hour - 2025-04-03 15:01
- Cory Booker Sets Record For Longest Fingernails On Senate Floor - 2025-04-03 14:39
- Trump Informs Nation They Better Start Liking Those Little Canned Wieners - 2025-04-03 13:28
changelogs
March 2025
2025-03-10 - r&d - Added the "rei & asuka" entry under r&d -> case mods -> legacy case mods. I also realized that I also got my Dragon case work log entered but forgot to update the change log to document it. So check that out too, I guess.
February 2025
2025-02-26 - Spent a few days messing around with the site layout. Went crazy with the icons and integrated them into the nav areas of the site. I created new layouts to generate dynamic icon-based navigation. I also pushed the "about" sections to the bottom of their respective sections.
2025-02-20 - linkroll - Alphabetized the linkroll categories. Working on putting together a linkroll/directory category.
December 2024
2024-12-20 - lab notes - Taking advantage of the new lab notes blog format and manually importing content from the previous iterations of the site. I've imported both Greymatter versions of the blog (thanks to the Internet Archive) and I'm working through the Drupal blog posts pulled from the backups I restored in October. I'm including comment text inline with the post content - click "read more" under any of the older blog posts to see them. I should also note that since these restored posts are over 15 years old many of the links are dead. I'm linking to Internet Archive pages contemporary to the date of the blog post in question where needed and when possible.
November 2024
2024-11-18 - linkroll - Adding more links new categories over the last several days. A bit of styling on the headers to improve readability.
2024-11-02 - Updated the styling for the ultrascience_efc theme used on the lab notes pages.
2024-11-02 - lab notes - adjusting content sorting. Lab notes is now in a blog format, using tags to sort blog entries and logn form research articles.
2024-11-01 - linkroll - Added new links
2024-11-01 - Added ticker feeds
October 2024
2024-10-31 - Working on the front page layout. Rolling latest changes into the changelogs. Still messing with the ticker feeds.
2024-10-30 - Updated Datenstrom Yellow to version 0.9, installed ticker extension for displaying RSS feed content. Currently just dumping it on the bottom of the homepage. I also installed the blog extension. I'm also considering other structural changes to the site.
2024-10-22 - lab notes - new article "A Site Recovery 15 years in the making" created to track archived site recovery work. Article is live, but very under construction
2024-10-22 - Been working on recovering the circa 2005 version of the site from my old backups. At the time it was using Drupal 4.7 running on a typical LAMP stack. Recovery work will be logged in a new lab notes article.
2024-10-04 - homepage - added icons, refreshed intro copy, cleaned up changelogs
September 2024
2024-09-16 - r & d - Whitewings worklogs updated under paper airplanes
2024-09-16 - lab notes - Updated the "whitewings" lab notes entry in the "models, hobbytronics & programming" notebook. Added links for model and manual scans. Updated the History of Jet Fighters and Volume 1 worklogs to include a list of models with assembly and flight reviews. Work will be ongoing there as I build and fly models.
2024-09-09 - r&d - Started work on the "Whitewings - History of Jet Fighters 1992" worklog under the r & d section
August 2024
2024-08-01 - August was offline work
July 2024
2024-07-15 - r&d - Started work on the "Whitewings - Excellent Paper Airplanes Volume 1 1980" worklog under the r & d section
2024-07-01 - lab notes - Created the "whitewings" lab notes entry in the "models, hobbytronics & programming" notebook
April 2024
2024-04-17- homepage - Continuing updates - all experimental. Added a current research section as a kind of "now" page.
2024-04-16 - lab notes -New article published "why we are still using 88x31 buttons"
2024-04-04 - homepage - Cleaning up changelogs and latest changes on homepage, added intro copy.
2024-04-04 - linkroll - Added a "categories" list.
2024-04-04 - homepage - Adding icons and images for interest.
2024-04-01 - r&d - Completed the "mdportal elite" entry under r&d -> case mods -> legacy case mods
March 2024
- r&d - Started with restoring my 'ancient' case mod project logs and updating them for the new site.
Updated theming for the R&D section of the site.
2024-03-06 - lab notes - New article published "windows xp running on a vm"
2024-03-01 - lab notes - New article published "searching for search"
February 2024
2024-2-30 - linkroll - Added new category papercraft
2024-2-23 - linkroll - Added links to tools and resources I've been using to build this site.
2024-2-23 - Applied font sub-setting to drastically reduce font download size, played with header font styling.
2024-2-3 - Updated blue theme colors for the landing page and played with background images and styling in general.
January 2024
2024-1-28 - linkroll - Added more links to the.
2024-1-26 - Working on categories/layout for the linkroll.
current research
Web
Thanks to my restored backups and the Internet Archive, I was able to pull in the blog content from my pre 2010 Greymatter and Drupal versions of the site in the lab notes. Content is tagged with "greymatter" and "drupal" as appropriate. Old comments are included. I'm still working on old project logs.
Hardware
Workshop reorganization has continued through the fall and into winter. But along the way I've knocked out a few projects and made headway on others. Details coming.
Papercraft/Models
Paper airplanes made for some fun summer and fall flying, but wet and cold winter weather has settled in so I've been spending time on the model railroad layout. It's a mixed-gauge two-level layout consisting of HO and HOn30. The main HOn30 in-town streetcar loop track has been laid and wired, and I've laid track on the HO portion. Details coming.
Infrastructure
Shop re-org and updates continue. I still need to document the work so I can keep track of it in the future - if only I had a website for tracking projects...
about
Welcome to the labs. Back in the early 2000s I was playing with case mods and website design and I set up this domain as a homepage to share my projects and sandbox to play with various development tools and styles.
I dropped it after several years, but lately I've wanted a place to record and share my old and new project work again. So I re-registered the site and dusted off my old data files.
system status
Generator: Datenstrom Yellow version 0.9