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
- Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror - 2026-03-10 02:00
- European Consortium Wants Open-Source Alternative To Google Play Integrity - 2026-03-09 22:30
- Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience - 2026-03-09 20:00
- EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - 2026-03-09 18:00
- Live Nation Avoids Ticketmaster Breakup By 'Open Sourcing' Their Ticketing Model - 2026-03-09 17:00
hackaday
- Seeing the World Through Animal Eyes - 2026-03-10 03:00
- Diagnosing a Mysterious Fault with a Commodore 1541 Disk Drive - 2026-03-10 00:00
- The Sweetest Programming Language: MNM - 2026-03-09 21:00
- Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed - 2026-03-09 18:00
- Real-Time ISS Tracker Shows Off the Goods - 2026-03-09 15:00
neatorama
- Saint Michel d'Aiguilhe, a Chapel 279 Feet Above the Surrounding Village - 2026-03-09 13:10
- The Downside of Using AI for Everyday Tasks - 2026-03-09 13:07
- A Diagnosis of Hysteria Once Explained Everything - 2026-03-09 11:54
- Ford Motor Company's World War I Helmet - 2026-03-08 19:26
- Stretchy Grilled Cheese Fabric Art - 2026-03-08 19:14
NPR
- Trump gives mixed messages about when the war with Iran will end - 2026-03-10 04:35
- Morning news brief - 2026-03-10 04:08
- Why the 'mad scramble' to fill hormone therapy prescriptions for menopause - 2026-03-10 04:00
- Georgia special election to replace MTG tests the power of Trump's endorsement - 2026-03-10 04:00
- Out of work and with 2 teens, this mom may lose food stamps under Trump's changes - 2026-03-10 04:00
jacobin
- Should Unions Radically Rethink First Contracts? - 2026-03-09 07:30
- Gavin Newsom’s Closely Curated Vulnerability Isn’t Convincing - 2026-03-09 07:24
- Why Is There No Antiwar Movement in the US? - 2026-03-09 06:46
- Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship - 2026-03-09 05:43
- Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire - 2026-03-09 03:58
africa is a country
- A sick health system - 2026-03-09 07:00
- From Mogadishu to Minneapolis - 2026-03-06 06:00
- The empire strikes Iran - 2026-03-05 03:00
- Afrobeats after Fela - 2026-03-04 05:00
- Whose language is the nation’s? - 2026-03-03 06:01
404media
- Understanding Roblox’s Grooming Problem - 2026-03-09 10:36
- How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' - 2026-03-09 09:12
- I Visited the ‘Freedom Truck’ to Meet PragerU’s AI Slop Founders - 2026-03-09 08:26
- Humanity Has Altered an Asteroid’s Orbit Around the Sun - 2026-03-07 08:00
- Behind the Blog: An AI Army Foot Fetish - 2026-03-06 10:26
techdirt
- Real Consequences: Trump’s Bullshit Claim About Tylenol Is Seeing Real World Results - 2026-03-09 22:05
- DOJ Un-Drops Its Appeal Against Law Firms, Files Brief That Gets The First Amendment Exactly Backwards - 2026-03-09 17:12
- Congressional Republicans Push Bills That Would Block Kids Access To Content For Ideological Reasons - 2026-03-09 15:03
- ICE Detainment Center Guards Allegedly Set Up Suicide Death Pools - 2026-03-09 13:03
- Daily Deal: The Courses Digest, Labs Digest, and Exams Digest Bundle - 2026-03-09 12:57
the register personal tech
- Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers - 2026-03-10 04:30
- Vulture rediscovers RSS to dull the pain of the modern web - 2026-03-09 12:26
- Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns - 2026-03-09 06:58
- Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters - 2026-03-09 06:14
- Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds - 2026-03-09 01:12
sciencedaily
- NASA’s DART asteroid smash shows we could deflect a future threat - 2026-03-09 20:12
- Scientists detect a sudden acceleration in global warming - 2026-03-09 19:26
- Hidden metabolism found operating inside the cell nucleus - 2026-03-09 18:54
- Light-guided evolution creates proteins that can switch, sense, and compute - 2026-03-09 18:05
- Scientists found a surprising way to make exercise work better - 2026-03-09 17:24
space.com
- SpaceX launches 15,000-pound TV satellite to orbit on its 30th mission of the year (photos) - 2026-03-10 00:43
- Incoming! 1,300-pound NASA satellite will crash to Earth on March 10 - 2026-03-09 17:00
- Jupiter appears to change direction in the night sky tonight: Here's why - 2026-03-09 15:00
- The 1st trailer for HBO's 'Lanterns' drops with no green, no aliens, and a boatload of f-bombs - 2026-03-09 13:00
- China's 1st moon astronauts could land in Rimae Bode, a 'geological museum' on the lunar near side - 2026-03-09 11:01
space news
- Meridian Space Diplomacy Forum & Executive Space Training – March 25 & 26 - 2026-03-09 16:52
- SSTL to build spacecraft for private space telescope - 2026-03-09 16:48
- Missile detection satellites designed by BAE Systems pass early review - 2026-03-09 16:15
- Voyager Technologies invests in Max Space - 2026-03-09 08:00
- GNSS resilience is an economic and security priority - 2026-03-09 08:00
phys.org
- How to make farms tree-friendly and boost food production - 2026-03-09 20:00
- U.S. Indigenous peoples experience higher rates of fatal police violence in and around reservations - 2026-03-09 18:40
- Study warns Colombia could lose one-fifth of cocoa land by 2050 - 2026-03-09 18:40
- Evaluating landing sites for China's manned moon mission - 2026-03-09 18:20
- Raccoons solve puzzles for the fun of it, new study finds - 2026-03-09 18:00
onion latest
- United Airlines To Kick Off Passengers Who Refuse To Use Headphones - 2026-03-09 13:52
- Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ - 2026-03-09 13:50
- What To Know About The New Requirements For SNAP Benefits - 2026-03-09 12:10
- It Wasn’t Called ‘The 2008 RV Market Crash,’ Was It? - 2026-03-09 08:00
- IT Guy Warns Employees Not To Trust Emails He Sends After A Few Drinks - 2026-03-09 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