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
- Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029 - 2026-04-07 12:00
- New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei - 2026-04-07 11:00
- Stanford Daily Ponders Fate of Bill Gates Namesake Building On April Fools' Day - 2026-04-07 10:00
- LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning - 2026-04-07 06:00
- China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine - 2026-04-07 02:00
hackaday
- 2026 Hackaday Europe: First Round of Speakers Announced! - 2026-04-07 12:15
- Thermostat? Do It With a 555! - 2026-04-07 10:30
- CCA Ethernet Cables: Not Up To Scratch, But Are They Dangerous? - 2026-04-07 09:00
- The Heat Island Effect is Warming Up the AI Data Center Controversy - 2026-04-07 06:00
- 934 MHz: When The Government Really Doesn’t Want You To Have CB - 2026-04-07 03:00
neatorama
- An Honest Trailer for <i>Avatar: Fire and Ash</i> - 2026-04-07 12:37
- Egret Baby Picture Wins the Annual Smithsonian Photography Competition - 2026-04-07 12:09
- Bill McClintock Brings Us "Roxanne Works Hard for the Money" - 2026-04-06 20:10
- Kermitsune Miku - 2026-04-06 10:01
- Outsourcing Our Logical Thinking to Artificial Intelligence - 2026-04-06 08:03
NPR
- Astronauts suggest naming a moon crater 'Carroll' after their commander's late wife - 2026-04-07 12:09
- Drive slower, go electric, don't drive at all? Americans weigh options for saving gas - 2026-04-07 11:00
- Photos: NASA releases first images from moon flyby - 2026-04-07 09:35
- Australia charges ex‑soldier with 5 war‑crime murders in Afghanistan - 2026-04-07 07:46
- Trump's deadline for an Iran deal looms. And, Artemis II crew begins the journey home - 2026-04-07 05:49
jacobin
- Congressional Democrats Are Out of Step With Their Base - 2026-04-07 06:58
- Workers at Cocktail Bar Attaboy Are Unionizing - 2026-04-07 06:41
- Trump’s Goal Is to Suppress Votes, Not Prevent Election Fraud - 2026-04-07 05:04
- Movements Need the Critical Thinking That AI Destroys - 2026-04-07 04:23
- Is There a Way Out From Trump’s Iran Ultimatum? - 2026-04-07 03:57
africa is a country
- The making of Arundhati Roy - 2026-04-07 07:00
- The human cost of Kenya’s expanding lakes - 2026-04-03 05:00
- You can’t kick politics out of football - 2026-04-02 17:00
- In Guadalajara, we found joy - 2026-04-02 05:00
- À Guadalajara, nous avons trouvé la joie - 2026-04-02 04:59
404media
- Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters - 2026-04-07 10:56
- Data Center Tech Lobbyists Fearmonger in Attempt to Retroactively Roll Back Right to Repair Law - 2026-04-07 08:56
- Multiple Hackers Warned Anti-Porn App Quittr About Security Issue for Months - 2026-04-06 12:36
- Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill - 2026-04-06 10:30
- Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE - 2026-04-06 08:53
techdirt
- The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI - 2026-04-07 12:52
- Daily Deal: Costco 1-Year Gold Star Membership + $20 Digital Costco Shop Card - 2026-04-07 12:47
- Trump’s Office Of Legal Counsel Says Trump Doesn’t Need To Follow The Presidential Records Rules - 2026-04-07 11:24
- America First? Paramount Finalizes $24 Billion In Middle East Backing For Warner Bros Deal - 2026-04-07 07:25
- Congress Wants To Put The Law Behind A Paywall. Again. - 2026-04-06 22:10
the register personal tech
- Break, no fix: Apple and Samsung make repairs hard - 2026-04-07 10:08
- Apple's chips are the core of a new landscape, but its biggest win is Windows - 2026-04-07 04:31
- Brits are falling out of love with posting every thought online - 2026-04-07 03:35
- We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke - 2026-04-01 04:28
- Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China - 2026-03-31 08:45
sciencedaily
- Scientists say 7 days of meditation can rewire your brain - 2026-04-07 02:56
- This diet could slash cholera infections by up to 100x - 2026-04-07 02:22
- This new chip survives 1300°F (700°C) and could change AI forever - 2026-04-07 00:32
- Earth’s most powerful ocean current didn’t form the way we thought - 2026-04-06 23:07
- Scientists found a “lost world” of animals that shouldn’t exist yet - 2026-04-06 22:41
space.com
- A satellite just captured images of a tsunami being born. Here's why that's a big deal - 2026-04-07 12:00
- Artemis 2 captures historic 'Earthset' photo | Space photo of the day for April 7, 2026 - 2026-04-07 11:40
- Watch Comet MAPS get destroyed by cataclysmic fragmentation near the sun - 2026-04-07 11:00
- 'Unreal' solar eclipse: Artemis 2 crew just saw one of the rarest sights in spaceflight history - 2026-04-07 09:00
- The Artemis 2 astronauts just flew by the moon. Lunar scientists can't wait for what's next - 2026-04-07 07:00
space news
- NASA’s new moon base project requires operational technology systems in space, but they are vulnerable. - 2026-04-07 08:00
- Starfish Space raises more than $100 million - 2026-04-07 08:00
- Nominate space industry leaders for the 2026 SpaceNews Icon Awards - 2026-04-07 07:30
- Earth observation operators push to deliver satellite images within minutes - 2026-04-07 06:00
- Artemis 2 swings around the moon - 2026-04-06 20:51
phys.org
- Network analysis reveals mammal food web drivers across Africa - 2026-04-07 12:40
- From decades-long studies of humble grasses, new clues to climate resistance - 2026-04-07 12:30
- Ranks of Disparity: New approach fixes flaw in fairness algorithms - 2026-04-07 12:20
- Rich biodiversity found in Japan's deepest ocean trenches, including an unidentified 'mystery' species - 2026-04-07 12:00
- Students prefer AI chatbots, until they know it is one - 2026-04-07 12:00
onion latest
- Snob Doesn’t Think Audiobook Counts As Real Porn - 2026-04-07 11:05
- Artemis II Astronaut Decapitated By Telephone Pole After Sticking Head Out Window - 2026-04-07 11:02
- Bari Weiss Attempts To Boost Ratings By Kidnapping Tony Dokoupil’s Mom - 2026-04-07 10:03
- Samantha Irizarry and Isaac Porter - 2026-04-07 08:00
- Unclear Where Girlfriend Keeps Making All These Friends - 2026-04-07 08:00
changelogs
April 2026
2025-04-03 - linkroll - added more links.
December 2025
2025-12-22 - r & d - Infrastructure worklogs updated in shop rehab redux
November 2025
2025-11-09 - updated the ticker links to open in new tabs.
2025-11-07 - updated yellow to version 0.9.16
July 2025
2025-07-15 - linkroll - added links to the esoterica, linkrolls, design inspiration, and woodworking sections.
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 0.9.16