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
- 2026 Turing Award Goes To Inventors of Quantum Cryptography - 2026-03-18 12:00
- Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud 'a Pile of Shit', Yet Approved It Anyway - 2026-03-18 11:00
- Apple Can Delist Apps 'With Or Without Cause,' Judge Says In Loss For Musi App - 2026-03-18 10:00
- Experiments Show Potatoes Can Survive In Lunar Solar (With Lots of Help) - 2026-03-18 06:00
- Nvidia Announces Vera Rubin Space-1 Chip System For Orbital AI Data Centers - 2026-03-18 02:00
hackaday
- Hackaday Europe Tickets On Sale Now, CFP Extended - 2026-03-18 12:15
- Forgetfulino Puts Back Up of Source Inside the Binary - 2026-03-18 10:30
- The Rise and Fall of Free Dial Up Internet - 2026-03-18 09:00
- CorridorKey is What You Get When Artists Make AI Tools - 2026-03-18 06:00
- Building an LC Meter with a Franklin Oscillator - 2026-03-18 03:00
neatorama
- The Mutiny of the Trout Pitted Commoners Against the Nobility - 2026-03-18 09:13
- You've Been Playing Monopoly Wrong All These Years - 2026-03-18 08:24
- Newly-sighted People Have to Learn How to See - 2026-03-17 19:43
- The World's First Perfect Game of <i>Sarabande 2X Co-Op</i> - 2026-03-17 14:07
- Pinning Down the Moments When Disney Breaks Your Heart - 2026-03-17 07:50
NPR
- Mamdani put Ramadan at the center of NYC's cultural life, bringing joy -- and a backlash - 2026-03-18 11:38
- FAA tightens safety rules for helicopters and planes around major airports - 2026-03-18 11:21
- Trump temporarily waives the Jones Act to try to lower gasoline prices. Will it work? - 2026-03-18 09:49
- Greetings from Nyeri, Kenya, where grandmothers help coach the next generation - 2026-03-18 09:33
- A mysterious floral artist has taken over the New York Botanical Garden - 2026-03-18 09:00
jacobin
- Match Week Is a Scam That Exploits Medical Residents - 2026-03-18 08:03
- The Making of the Teenager - 2026-03-18 06:18
- Sectarianism Has Never Ended a War - 2026-03-18 05:48
- A Simple Demand: No Aid to Israel - 2026-03-18 04:31
- Israel Has Nuclear Weapons. It May Use Them. - 2026-03-18 04:08
africa is a country
- Where do the borders really lie? - 2026-03-18 06:00
- David Hundeyin may not be a false prophet - 2026-03-17 06:00
- Pilgrimage to power - 2026-03-16 08:00
- Who speaks for Iran? - 2026-03-13 08:45
- The arrest protocol on my fridge - 2026-03-12 05:00
404media
- Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain - 2026-03-18 09:27
- Podcast: The Disappearing DOGE Depositions - 2026-03-18 08:05
- Was Life Seeded from Space? ‘Complete Set’ of DNA Ingredients Discovered on Asteroid - 2026-03-17 12:29
- AI Job Loss Research Ignores How AI Is Utterly Destroying the Internet - 2026-03-17 09:59
- CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court - 2026-03-16 17:40
techdirt
- Daily Deal: The Modern No-Code Development Bundle - 2026-03-18 12:57
- Trump Has Racked Up At Least 157 Extrajudicial Boat Strike Murders In The Last 6 Months - 2026-03-18 11:27
- Pete Hegseth: We Can’t Wait For Larry Ellison To Turn CNN Into Another Right Wing Propaganda Mill - 2026-03-18 07:23
- Full Circle: Katie Perry Gets Her Trademark Back In Australia, Court Says No Risk Of Confusion - 2026-03-17 22:07
- Trump Administration Moves to Allow Intelligence Agencies Easier Access to Law Enforcement Files - 2026-03-17 17:48
the register personal tech
- Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months - 2026-03-18 06:02
- World
Coin's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - 2026-03-17 15:26 - Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS - 2026-03-17 05:06
- BBC World Service digital switch backfires as online audience drops - 2026-03-17 02:00
- Apple’s MacBook Neo turns out to be its most repairable lappy in 14 years - 2026-03-16 08:27
sciencedaily
- Your daily coffee may be protecting your brain, 43-year study finds - 2026-03-18 05:47
- These strange pink rocks just revealed a hidden giant beneath Antarctica - 2026-03-18 05:39
- These dinosaurs had wings but couldn’t fly - 2026-03-18 05:08
- AI uses as much energy as Iceland but scientists aren’t worried - 2026-03-18 04:52
- He survived 48 hours without lungs and lived - 2026-03-18 03:15
space.com
- 'Firefly' is getting an animated series featuring the original cast, and we're all shiny with anticipation - 2026-03-18 12:00
- One of the youngest visible moons of the year appears alongside Venus on March 19 - 2026-03-18 11:00
- Northern lights may be visible in 16 US states tonight as several CMEs race toward Earth - 2026-03-18 09:56
- X-59 gets ready for 2nd test flight | Space photo of the day for March 18, 2026 - 2026-03-18 09:00
- New moon of March 2026 brings stunning views of Jupiter, Venus, zodiacal light and more - 2026-03-18 08:02
space news
- Solar array deal sheds more light on South Korea’s defense constellation - 2026-03-18 09:57
- Frontier justice: navigating the future legal landscape for private actors in space law - 2026-03-18 08:00
- China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test - 2026-03-18 07:45
- NASA grappling with planetary science funding shortfall - 2026-03-18 07:09
- Space Force overhauls buying structure with new mission portfolios - 2026-03-17 17:44
phys.org
- Remote working challenges linked to management issues - 2026-03-18 12:50
- California's lead-ammo bans are working, but expanding condor ranges undercut gains - 2026-03-18 12:40
- Tracking male sea turtles just got easier - 2026-03-18 12:40
- How common are fireballs streaking across the sky? - 2026-03-18 12:30
- The way you walk can reveal your true feelings - 2026-03-18 12:20
onion latest
- Sabrina Carpenter Sends Especially Hot Concertgoer To Fuzzy Pink Electric Chair - 2026-03-18 08:00
- God Angry After New Construction Blocks View Of Creation - 2026-03-18 08:00
- The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Sam Altman - 2026-03-18 08:00
- Job Applicant Informed Role Of Pig Boy Has Been Filled - 2026-03-18 08:00
- 3,800 Workers Strike At Massive Meatpacking Plant - 2026-03-17 16:06
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