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
- Brain Interface Speaks Your Thoughts In Near Real-time - 2025-04-02 05:00
- James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rotate Clockwise - 2025-04-02 03:30
- Why Watts Should Replace mAh as Essential Spec for Mobile Devices - 2025-04-02 02:00
- OpenAI Accused of Training GPT-4o on Unlicensed O'Reilly Books - 2025-04-01 23:45
- Cheap TVs' Incessant Advertising Reaches Troubling New Lows - 2025-04-01 22:30
hackaday
- The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare - 2025-04-02 06:00
- A Toothbrush Hacked, in Three Parts - 2025-04-02 03:00
- Why the LM741 Sucks - 2025-04-02 00:00
- An Elegant Writer for a More Civilized Age - 2025-04-01 21:00
- A Forgotten Photographic Process Characterised - 2025-04-01 18:00
neatorama
- Can You Identify This Ghibli Film by Its Color Palette? - 2025-03-31 08:32
- Dr. Buckland’s Scotch Oats Essence Was Not What It Seemed - 2025-03-30 21:08
- Psychologists Wonder Why Men Like Looking at Breasts - 2025-03-30 14:21
- The Winners of the Smithsonian's Annual Photography Competition - 2025-03-30 13:38
- Seven Killers Who Appeared on TV Before They Were Caught - 2025-03-29 21:24
NPR
- How reciprocal tariffs could affect you. And, Maryland man mistakenly deported - 2025-04-02 06:00
- Latest Alzheimer's lab tests focus on memory loss, not brain plaques - 2025-04-02 05:00
- Today is Trump's 'Liberation Day.' What does that mean for tariffs? - 2025-04-02 04:00
- Supreme Court to decide if states can strip Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds - 2025-04-02 04:00
- Here's what to do if you're caught driving in high winds, tornadoes or dust storms - 2025-04-02 04:00
jacobin
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Was Revolutionary Cuba’s Great Director - 2025-04-01 10:26
- Andrée Blouin Was Africa’s Forgotten Power Broker - 2025-04-01 08:13
- Fighting Side by Side in Israel-Palestine - 2025-04-01 07:14
- The Shared Logic of Censorship - 2025-04-01 06:02
- The Norwegian Route Out of Tradwife Hell - 2025-04-01 04:00
africa is a country
- 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
- African music festivals and the politics of reclamation - 2025-03-27 06:30
- The politics of South African sound - 2025-03-26 06:00
404media
- OnlyFans Sued After Two Guys Realized They Might Not Actually Be Talking to Models - 2025-04-01 08:00
- Open Source Genetic Database Shuts Down to Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - 2025-03-31 11:13
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's Iconic Look Used to Promote Knockoff Leather Jackets - 2025-03-31 08:52
- Meet the Fish That Doesn’t Want to Be Met - 2025-03-29 08:00
- Behind the Blog: Foolishness and Breaking Through - 2025-03-28 10:57
techdirt
- Measles & Vitamin A Toxicity: How RFK Jr. Is Compounding The Outbreak Problem - 2025-04-01 22:15
- The Normalization Of Autocracy - 2025-04-01 17:33
- Techdirt Podcast Episode 413: Ron Wyden On Chutzpah - 2025-04-01 15:30
- Sorry, You Don’t Get To Declare ‘Case Closed’ On War Crime Planning Over Signal - 2025-04-01 14:11
- More History To Be Erased As Trump Strips Smithsonian Funding For Anything ‘Anti-American’ - 2025-04-01 12:51
the register personal tech
- 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
- Privacy died last century, the only way to go is off-grid - 2025-03-31 07:15
sciencedaily
- Rocky Mountain snow is contaminated, study shows - 2025-04-01 16:49
- New insight into factors associated with a common disease among dogs and humans - 2025-04-01 16:49
- Metasurfaces: Bilayer device can control many forms of polarized light - 2025-04-01 14:16
- Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers - 2025-04-01 12:15
- Surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs - 2025-04-01 12:15
space.com
- Plush polar bear with penguin art floats as Fram2 zero-g indicator in polar orbit - 2025-04-02 05:00
- Northern Lights in Mexico? Low-latitudes may be more vulnerable than expected to geomagnetic storms - 2025-04-02 04:00
- NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope takes its 1st cosmic images: 'The instrument team nailed it' - 2025-04-01 17:06
- New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video) - 2025-04-01 15:00
- 'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video) - 2025-04-01 14:22
space news
- CLPS companies seek expanded opportunities for commercial lunar landers - 2025-04-02 05:34
- MDA Space buys SatixFy to boost constellation production - 2025-04-01 10:32
- China launches internet technology test satellites with Long March 2D - 2025-04-01 05:55
- SpaceX launches Fram2 private astronaut mission - 2025-03-31 22:07
- Investigation into failed New Glenn landing completed - 2025-03-31 16:51
phys.org
- World's largest wildlife crossing reaches critical milestone - 2025-04-02 05:41
- Study uncovers mercury treatment in 19th-century French child suffering from rickets and scurvy - 2025-04-02 05:30
- Cost to build multifamily housing in California more than twice as high as in Texas, report finds - 2025-04-02 05:28
- A router for photons: Transducer could enable superconducting quantum networks - 2025-04-02 04:00
- Simulating the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation shows how it helped shape Earth - 2025-04-02 03:09
onion latest
- Trump ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking Third Term - 2025-04-01 16:38
- Attorney General Seeks Death Penalty For All UnitedHealthcare Customers - 2025-04-01 13:07
- College Campus Tour Ends Inside Unmarked ICE Vehicle - 2025-04-01 10:22
- Guy Ordering Nonalcoholic Beer Has Either Seen A Ton Of Shit Or No Shit At All - 2025-04-01 08:00
- Only Bag Of Chips Big Enough For Funeral Reception Says ‘Party Size!’ On It - 2025-04-01 08:00
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