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
- Meta Delays 'Behemoth' AI Model Release - 2025-05-15 16:25
- Google Restores File Permissions For Nexcloud - 2025-05-15 15:45
- Telegram Bans $35 Billion Black Markets Used To Sell Stolen Data, Launder Crypto - 2025-05-15 15:07
- Uber Expects More Drivers Amid Robotaxi Push - 2025-05-15 14:03
- American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show - 2025-05-15 13:20
hackaday
- LACED: Peeling Back PCB Layers With Chemical Etching and a Laser - 2025-05-15 15:00
- Mylar Space Blankets As RF Reflectors - 2025-05-15 13:30
- Remembering More Memory: XMS and a Real Hack - 2025-05-15 12:00
- FPV Drone Takes Off From a Rocketing Start - 2025-05-15 10:30
- Falling Down The Land Camera Rabbit Hole - 2025-05-15 09:00
neatorama
- Pigeon Whistles: A Most Unique Musical Instrument - 2025-05-15 10:56
- A Supercut of "Lose Yourself" Featuring 331 Movies - 2025-05-15 07:23
- 90 Years Ago: The First Full-Length Werewolf Movie - 2025-05-14 21:27
- What Makes Miracle Whip Different From Mayonnaise? - 2025-05-14 21:00
- Kamber Carroll's Sandwich Tables - 2025-05-14 08:26
NPR
- Dick's Sporting Goods is buying Foot Locker for $2.4 billion - 2025-05-15 16:19
- Denver air traffic controllers had 2-minute communications outage, FAA official says - 2025-05-15 15:51
- DHS asks for 20,000 National Guard troops to assist in deportations - 2025-05-15 15:20
- In Abu Dhabi, Trump makes first visit to a mosque as president - 2025-05-15 15:16
- The U.S. Has a New Plan for Gaza Aid - 2025-05-15 14:30
jacobin
- Hasan Piker’s Detention and the Attack on the 4th Amendment - 2025-05-15 09:44
- When Cities Partner With Predatory Financial Ghouls - 2025-05-15 08:07
- How Yemen’s Houthis Brought Maritime Capitalism to a Halt - 2025-05-15 07:36
- The GOP’s School Voucher Program Is Anti-Populism - 2025-05-15 06:04
- RFK Jr’s Plan to Dismantle Support for Americans With Autism - 2025-05-15 04:57
africa is a country
- The other route to the American dream - 2025-05-15 04:00
- The politics of class from above - 2025-05-14 04:00
- Green hydrogen, old colonialism - 2025-05-13 04:30
- Trump tariffs and US Imperialism - 2025-05-11 19:00
- Cinema against silence - 2025-05-09 06:30
404media
- CBP Seizes Shipment of T-Shirts Featuring Swarm of Bees Attacking a Cop - 2025-05-15 14:41
- ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game - 2025-05-15 12:45
- This Chatbot Promises to Help You Get Over That Ex Who Ghosted You - 2025-05-15 10:55
- Why Did Grok Start Talking About ‘White Genocide’? - 2025-05-15 10:06
- American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show - 2025-05-15 09:28
techdirt
- AI Is Making Many People Rethink Copyright - 2025-05-15 15:46
- Trump FCC To ‘Investigate’ Dish 5G Network, To The Direct Benefit Of… Elon Musk - 2025-05-15 14:10
- Missouri AG Thinks Supreme Court Ruling Lets Him Control Social Media Moderation (It Doesn’t) - 2025-05-15 12:54
- Daily Deal: The JavaScript DOM Game Developer Bundle - 2025-05-15 12:49
- Milwaukee PD Wants To Trade 2.5 Million Mugshots For Free Facial Recognition Tech - 2025-05-15 11:35
the register personal tech
- Coinbase extorted for $20M. Support staff bribed. Customers scammed. One hell of a SNAFU - 2025-05-15 11:31
- The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet - 2025-05-15 04:26
- Meta's still violating GDPR rules with latest plan to train AI on EU user data, says noyb - 2025-05-14 10:34
- VPN Secure parent company CEO explains why he had to axe thousands of 'lifetime' deals - 2025-05-14 09:17
- C-suite at Alphabet make B-A-N-K from 2024 equity awards - 2025-05-14 05:33
sciencedaily
- A multitude of protoplanetary discs detected in the galactic centre - 2025-05-15 12:21
- Cyberbullying in any form can be traumatizing for kids - 2025-05-15 12:19
- Scientists track down mutation that makes orange cats orange - 2025-05-15 12:14
- Digital reconstruction reveals 80 steps of prehistoric life - 2025-05-15 12:14
- Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment - 2025-05-15 12:14
space.com
- NASA resurrects Voyager 1 interstellar spacecraft's thrusters after 20 years: 'These thrusters were considered dead' - 2025-05-15 16:09
- Eight feet keep PACE | Space photo of the day for May 15, 2025 - 2025-05-15 14:37
- 'Why not a dolphin Jesus?' — 'Love, Death + Robots' creators talk us through this season's sci-fi episodes (exclusive) - 2025-05-15 14:00
- We finally have a premiere date for 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 - 2025-05-15 13:30
- Is NASA ready for the Red Planet? US senator's 'Mission to MARS Act' aims to modernize Johnson Space Center - 2025-05-15 13:00
space news
- Space Force officials say it’s too early to pin down Golden Dome costs - 2025-05-15 14:07
- Live – A Conversation with Rep. George Whitesides - 2025-05-15 12:11
- The cost of shrinking space science - 2025-05-15 11:44
- Accelerating investment in the final frontier: leveraging administrative approvals to bolster commercial space development - 2025-05-15 08:00
- Solestial banks $17 million and welcomes new CEO - 2025-05-15 07:49
phys.org
- NASA satellite images could provide early volcano warnings - 2025-05-15 16:30
- Empowering cities to act: New interactive tool highlights where climate action is most needed - 2025-05-15 16:17
- A vicious cycle: How methane emissions from warming wetlands could exacerbate climate change - 2025-05-15 16:08
- What keeps people from evacuating during a natural disaster? - 2025-05-15 16:06
- Advanced gene editor enables more precise insertion of complete genes - 2025-05-15 16:03
onion latest
- Cannes Bans Nudity On Red Carpet - 2025-05-15 14:27
- How The U.S. Is Resettling White South African Refugees - 2025-05-15 10:30
- Trump Grants Refugee Status To Former SS Guards - 2025-05-15 10:06
- Jamal Abbott and Vicente Stephens - 2025-05-15 08:00
- Strategies For Decluttering - 2025-05-15 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