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
- Live Nation Execs Brag About 'Robbing' Ticket Buyers In Slack DMs - 2026-03-13 12:00
- Apple's App Store In China Gets Lower 25% Commission To Appease Regulators - 2026-03-13 11:00
- Facial Recognition Error Jails Innocent Grandmother For Months - 2026-03-13 10:00
- Italian Prosecutors Seek Trial For Amazon, Four Execs Over Alleged $1.4 Billion Tax Evasion - 2026-03-13 09:00
- Apple MacBook Neo Beats Every Single x86 PC CPU For Single-Core Performance - 2026-03-13 06:00
hackaday
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 361: Hackaday Podcast Mailbag, A Phone is Not a Computer, 3D Printing History is New Again - 2026-03-13 12:15
- Running a PC off AA Cells With Buck Converters Really Boosts Performance - 2026-03-13 10:30
- This Week in Security: Plenty of Patches, Replacing Old Gear, and Phrack Calls for Papers - 2026-03-13 09:00
- OS/2 Never Went Away. Its Successor Has Received An Update - 2026-03-13 06:00
- Perfecting the Shape-Changing Fruit Bowl - 2026-03-13 03:00
neatorama
- Lost <i>Doctor Who</i> Episodes Rediscovered - 2026-03-13 09:56
- LEGO Remixes - 2026-03-13 09:44
- The Inventive Shoes of Jo Cope - 2026-03-13 09:28
- It's Time to Prepare for Your Saint Urho's Day Celebrations - 2026-03-13 07:05
- The Trailer for Steven Spielberg's <i>Disclosure Day</i> - 2026-03-12 18:22
NPR
- How Italy became the darlings (and contenders, too) of the World Baseball Classic - 2026-03-13 12:12
- After firings, funding cuts, and a shooting, can a demoralized CDC workforce recover? - 2026-03-13 11:54
- Giant robots battle it out in Detroit's Robowar - 2026-03-13 08:50
- FBI investigates attacks in Michigan and Virginia. And, Senate passes housing bill - 2026-03-13 06:45
- Countries are negotiating rules to mine the deep sea. The U.S. is pushing ahead alone - 2026-03-13 05:50
jacobin
- Defend Cuba From US Efforts to Crush It - 2026-03-13 08:33
- Neocons Have Shaped Washington’s Iran War Plans - 2026-03-13 06:06
- Don’t Expect Kristi Noem’s Departure to Change Anything - 2026-03-13 05:52
- The Democratic Party Has Made a Religion of Curated Facts - 2026-03-13 05:45
- Artificial Intelligence Is Already Making War More Horrific - 2026-03-13 05:01
africa is a country
- The arrest protocol on my fridge - 2026-03-12 05:00
- Slow death by food - 2026-03-11 06:30
- The Imam against the insurgents - 2026-03-10 04:00
- A sick health system - 2026-03-09 07:00
- From Mogadishu to Minneapolis - 2026-03-06 06:00
404media
- Behind the Blog: DOGE Bros and Data Labelers - 2026-03-13 11:56
- People Hate Datacenters, Survey Finds - 2026-03-13 07:40
- I Watched 6 Hours of DOGE Bro Testimony. Here's What They Had to Say For Themselves - 2026-03-12 12:25
- 'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back - 2026-03-12 10:08
- Here’s the Memo Approving Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for Use in the Senate - 2026-03-11 10:41
techdirt
- Ninth Circuit Guts California’s Kids Code Once Again - 2026-03-13 11:27
- Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’ - 2026-03-13 07:25
- MAHA Institute: Nix The Entire Childhood Vaccine Schedule - 2026-03-12 22:04
- Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs - 2026-03-12 17:52
- Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered Surveillance - 2026-03-12 15:46
the register personal tech
- AI Burning Man happens next week – here's what The Register expects at GTC 2026 - 2026-03-13 01:30
- Apple takes a bite out of app store fees in China - 2026-03-12 22:22
- Perplexity: Everything is Computer, everything is AI, Computer is everything, AI is us - 2026-03-12 17:39
- Fresh indie broadband provider incoming as Google's fiber biz and Stonepeak’s Astound merge - 2026-03-12 08:22
- Microsoft adding Xbox mode to Windows 11 - even the Professional edition - 2026-03-12 01:10
sciencedaily
- Study finds two types of colon polyps can raise bowel cancer risk fivefold - 2026-03-13 05:14
- Severe COVID or flu may raise lung cancer risk years later - 2026-03-13 04:56
- Monty Python Got It Wrong About Medieval Disease - 2026-03-13 04:38
- Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold - 2026-03-13 01:38
- Scientists built the hardest AI test ever and the results are surprising - 2026-03-13 01:08
space.com
- The March full moon glows red through Saharan dust in eerie composite view - 2026-03-13 11:00
- Best model rocket sets for beginners - 2026-03-13 10:00
- Can't wait for Artemis 2 to make history? Get up to 20% off these awesome Lego NASA Artemis rocket sets - 2026-03-13 09:28
- Satellite spies an erupting volcano | Space photo of the day for March 13, 2026 - 2026-03-13 09:00
- NASA begins building nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone for 2028 launch to Saturn moon Titan - 2026-03-13 08:00
space news
- Eutelsat exits two Russian capacity leases after satellite failure - 2026-03-13 11:35
- Kazakhstan must choose: be Eurasia’s tech broker or become a pawn in the new global space race - 2026-03-13 08:00
- Q&A: Rebecca Evernden on UK space strategy - 2026-03-13 06:00
- China ends month-long launch hiatus with separate Guowang and Shiyan-30 satellite missions - 2026-03-13 05:58
- Senate committee advances NASA deputy administrator nominee - 2026-03-13 05:16
phys.org
- How an unlikely all-female clonal fish species copied and pasted itself free from extinction - 2026-03-13 12:40
- Inside the light: How invisible electric fields drive device luminescence - 2026-03-13 12:20
- How an alga makes the most of dim light by rearranging ordinary chlorophyll - 2026-03-13 12:00
- As CO₂ rose in a warm ancient climate, study shows El Niño peaked then weakened - 2026-03-13 11:50
- Study reveals North Atlantic warming contributed to intensity of Valencia DANA storm - 2026-03-13 11:40
onion latest
- Uber Introduces Women-Only Option Nationwide - 2026-03-13 11:22
- Health Speculations Swirl After Trump Screams, ‘Fuck! I’m Dying!’ - 2026-03-13 11:20
- Horse Cast As Horse In Live Action ‘Tangled’ Remake - 2026-03-13 08:00
- Oreo and Binx - 2026-03-13 08:00
- Political Profile: James Talarico - 2026-03-13 08:00
changelogs
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