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
- Anthropic's Claude AI Can Respond With Charts, Diagrams, and Other Visualschat - 2026-03-12 13:00
- Google Maps Gets Its Biggest Navigation Redesign In a Decade, Plus More AI - 2026-03-12 12:00
- Atlassian CEO Cites AI Shift When Announcing Plan To Shed 1,600 Jobs - 2026-03-12 11:00
- Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia - 2026-03-12 10:00
- Reducing Europe's Nuclear Energy Sector Was 'Strategic Mistake', EU Chief Says - 2026-03-12 09:00
hackaday
- Controlling Vintage Mac OS With AI - 2026-03-12 10:30
- Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized - 2026-03-12 09:00
- Selective Ironing Adds Designs To 3D Prints - 2026-03-12 06:00
- Open Source Radar Has Up To 20 KM Range - 2026-03-12 03:00
- A Radio Power Amplifier for Not a Lot - 2026-03-12 00:00
neatorama
- The Shape of Paris is More Than Just Skateboarding - 2026-03-12 08:24
- How Well Can You Distinguish Two Colors? - 2026-03-11 18:10
- How the Body Works to Heal a Broken Bone - 2026-03-11 17:03
- You Can Churn Butter While Running - 2026-03-11 09:22
- The Bernese Bear Will Keep His Penis - 2026-03-11 09:11
NPR
- Suspect in attack at Michigan synagogue is dead, ATF official says - 2026-03-12 13:27
- This tale of a Chicago school book ban was inspired by true events - 2026-03-12 12:36
- Medicare Advantage 'dark money' group tries to win higher payments for insurers - 2026-03-12 11:44
- Senate passes bipartisan housing bill targeting large investors and easing regulations - 2026-03-12 11:39
- This reporter went bust while covering America's sports betting boom - 2026-03-12 11:25
jacobin
- Workers Can Organize Outside the NLRB - 2026-03-12 07:35
- MAGA’s War on Teaching Goes Full Conspiracy Theory - 2026-03-12 07:07
- How Work Got So Bad - 2026-03-12 06:01
- Police Tech Giant Axon Is Concealing Its Political Spending - 2026-03-12 05:58
- The Iran War Will Probably Increase Nuclear Weapons Globally - 2026-03-12 05:05
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
- 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
- Podcast: How to Talk to Your Friend Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' - 2026-03-11 09:37
- From Flock to ICE, Here’s a Breakdown of How You’re Being Watched - 2026-03-11 09:27
techdirt
- The Wyden Siren Goes Off Again: We’ll Be “Stunned” By What the NSA Is Doing Under Section 702 - 2026-03-12 12:47
- Daily Deal: The All-in-One Super-Sized Ethical Hacking Bundle - 2026-03-12 12:42
- Docs Expose CBP’s Use Of Ad Data To Track People’s Movements - 2026-03-12 11:31
- David Ellison Pinky Swears CNN Will Retain Editorial Independence, Points To CBS - 2026-03-12 07:28
- Beavers Are Not Moose: Buc-ee’s Sues Competitor Over Cartoon Moose Branding - 2026-03-11 22:07
the register personal tech
- 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 - 2026-03-12 01:10
- Intel finds its Zen undercutting AMD with Arrow Lake refresh - 2026-03-11 08:02
- Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study - 2026-03-11 07:08
- Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments - 2026-03-10 09:23
sciencedaily
- Depression may start with an energy problem in brain cells - 2026-03-12 06:09
- A surprising blood protein pattern may reveal Alzheimer’s - 2026-03-12 06:00
- Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon - 2026-03-12 05:56
- Cosmic rays turned ancient sand into a geological time machine - 2026-03-12 00:53
- 400 million-year-old fish fossils reveal how life began moving onto land - 2026-03-12 00:14
space.com
- ISS astronauts take out the space trash | Space photo of the day for March 11, 2026 - 2026-03-12 11:59
- NASA project leader blames next-generation X-ray telescope cancellation on agency mismanagement - 2026-03-12 11:00
- Yachance Night Light star projector review - 2026-03-12 10:00
- How to clean your camera's image sensor safely at home - 2026-03-12 10:00
- Bus-sized asteroid will fly past Earth tonight mere days after being discovered. Here's what to expect - 2026-03-12 08:05
space news
- Voyager opens defense and space tech hub in Long Beach - 2026-03-12 13:00
- Another Earth raises $4 million to boost AI training with synthetic satellite data - 2026-03-12 11:10
- The new wave of industry coming for the LEO frontier - 2026-03-12 09:57
- York Space acquires satellite propulsion manufacturer Orbion Space - 2026-03-12 08:00
- Astranis taps retired Gen. John Hyten to lead advisory board - 2026-03-12 08:00
phys.org
- Capsule technology opens new window into individual cells - 2026-03-12 13:40
- Documenting conflict between commerce and conservation at a mining operation in Bangladesh - 2026-03-12 13:40
- Musicologists map medieval chant tropes to 9th-century political borders - 2026-03-12 13:20
- Deep underground, a telescope may soon detect ghosts of stars that died before Earth existed - 2026-03-12 13:20
- NASA's tiny spacecraft sends first exoplanet images - 2026-03-12 13:02
onion latest
- Harry Styles Breaks Down His New Album Track By Track - 2026-03-12 10:31
- Exhausted Nation Lacks Strength To Form Opinion On Donald Glover Being Voice Of Yoshi - 2026-03-12 10:10
- Fiery Explosion Erupts In L.A. Canyon After Britney Spears Twirls Over Guardrail - 2026-03-12 09:18
- Lisa Park - 2026-03-12 08:00
- Still Supreme! Iran’s New Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei On Faith, Fitness, And Supremely Good Sex After 50 - 2026-03-12 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