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
- Scientists Discover Mysterious New X-Ray Objects 'Unlike Any They Have Seen Before' - 2026-09-15 14:04
- Cops Searched Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of 'LMAO,' 'IDK,' 'Hehe,' And 'Asdfg' - 2026-09-15 09:34
- Math Professor Accuses OpenAI of Copying His Work, Says AI Compute Power Makes Racing to Publish 'Pointless' - 2026-09-15 05:04
- ChatGPT-Using Lawyer Cited Its Fake Witnesses and Police Testimony in Court - 2026-09-15 00:34
- Reservations Go Live for Valve's Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress? - 2026-09-14 20:04
hackaday
- Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up - 2026-09-15 13:30
- Hackaday Europe 2026: Bare Metal Made Easy - 2026-09-15 12:05
- Running Linux 6.11 on the ESP32-S3 with a Few Tweaks - 2026-09-15 10:30
- Linux Fu: Speak Up! - 2026-09-15 09:00
- Every ZX81 Expansion Card You Ever Wanted, All At Once - 2026-09-15 06:00
neatorama
- A Jumping Spider Captured Her Heart and Became a Pet - 2026-09-14 21:41
- The Deadliest Industrial Accident in United States History - 2026-09-14 17:41
- Restored Film from 1930 Reveals How to Wear a Monocle Correctly - 2026-09-14 12:20
- <i>Star Trek</i>, But It's an Italian Comedy - 2026-09-14 08:07
- Where Your Sense of Direction (or Lack Thereof) Comes From - 2026-09-14 06:44
NPR
- State of U.S. democracy reaches new low, report finds - 2026-09-15 13:57
- Family income rose and poverty fell in 2025 — but safety net cuts could erase gains - 2026-09-15 13:29
- Judge blocks plan to return Trump's name to the Kennedy Center - 2026-09-15 12:49
- Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty for Nick Reiner - 2026-09-15 12:36
- Republican Rep. Massie moves to impeach Defense Secretary Hegseth over Iran war - 2026-09-15 12:35
jacobin
- Donald Trump’s Imperialism of Decline Is a Global Menace - 2026-09-15 10:06
- The Fate of the Rohingyas Is Crucial for Myanmar’s Future - 2026-09-15 09:09
- The Rise of Germany’s Far Right Reflects a Systemic Crisis - 2026-09-15 08:06
- How Amazon Busts Unions, in Its Own Words - 2026-09-14 15:40
- Russian Elites Are Fighting for Unchecked Power - 2026-09-14 13:35
404media
- Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable - 2026-09-15 10:43
- A Digital Fly Brain Has Taken Over the Internet - 2026-09-15 10:28
- There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet - 2026-09-15 09:32
- New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites - 2026-09-14 12:26
- Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ - 2026-09-14 10:51
techdirt
- Minneapolis ICE Observer Sues DHS For Its Retaliatory Stripping Of His Global Entry Status - 2026-09-15 13:08
- Daily Deal: The Mastering Linux Development Bundle - 2026-09-15 13:03
- SCOTUS Won’t Revive Trump’s Ballot-Blocking Rule; Alito Thinks Imaginary Fraud Is The Bigger Problem - 2026-09-15 11:22
- LG TVs Snoop Your Local Network, Listen To You When ‘Off’ - 2026-09-15 07:23
- Adult Woman Dies From Measles Complications In Pennsylvania - 2026-09-14 22:02
sciencedaily
- Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane - 2026-09-15 10:15
- Smelling chocolate helped men complete more reps without feeling more tired - 2026-09-15 10:03
- This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets - 2026-09-15 09:43
- Scientists discover a major brain shift between ages 50 and 75 - 2026-09-15 09:28
- UV light reveals possible camouflage on a 125-million-year-old crocodile - 2026-09-15 09:07
space.com
- SpaceX's next Starship launch will lift off on Sept. 22 and aim to reach orbit for 1st time - 2026-09-15 13:33
- Microscopic alien technology may be hidden in moon dust, scientists say - 2026-09-15 13:00
- 'Captain EO' at 40: Michael Jackson's wild sci-fi movie that you could only watch at Disney theme parks - 2026-09-15 12:00
- Making rocket fuel out of Mars' thin air: New breakthrough could make it happen - 2026-09-15 11:00
- 'The violence leaves a mark': How satellites are helping the world monitor war and atrocities - 2026-09-15 10:00
space news
- More satellites watch the battlefield, putting a premium on making sense of the data - 2026-09-15 10:49
- Iceye’s global presence expands to address sovereign demand - 2026-09-15 01:00
- Sept. 21: What Comes Next for On-Orbit Servicing? - 2026-09-14 12:09
- Space’s growing billion-dollar club - 2026-09-14 10:35
- LatConnect 60 Expands India Market Presence for SWIRSAT With NSIL Agreement and GeoSyze Partnership - 2026-09-11 00:32
phys.org
- New peanut genome map uncovers hidden gene, boosts dense-planting yields 20% - 2026-09-15 14:10
- Not all roads lead to Rome: Research challenges what we think we know about Roman roads - 2026-09-15 14:00
- Drought-flood alternation under climate change - 2026-09-15 13:40
- Mitotic chromosomes may assemble from pre-existing chromatin 'building blocks' during cell division - 2026-09-15 13:40
- Is science journalism dying? Comparing a 'science crash' 40 years ago to today - 2026-09-15 13:30
onion latest
- Horrified Guests Begin Gagging As Dinner Host Reveals They’ve Been Eating USDA Beef - 2026-09-15 12:18
- Blind Man Who Drove 150 Miles Drunk Avoids Jail - 2026-09-15 12:15
- Casper Recalls Mattresses That Won’t Stop Expanding When Unboxed - 2026-09-15 08:00
- Video Game Prologue Still Going - 2026-09-15 08:00
- Virtuoso Grasshopper Absolutely Wailing On Leg - 2026-09-15 08:00
changelogs
September 2026
2026-09-14 - r&d - Posted Part 1 of the Sanyo S-540 worklog to the Speaker Design section.
2025-09-09 - removed Register Personal Tech feed from the ticker links. Played with fonts and layout, decided against the changes and rolled them back.
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