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
- Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab - 2026-04-06 13:00
- More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class - 2026-04-06 12:00
- Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars - 2026-04-06 11:00
- Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS - 2026-04-06 10:00
- Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor - 2026-04-06 06:34
hackaday
- In Space (Probably) Everyone Can Hear You.. Well, You Know - 2026-04-06 12:00
- Lab Gloves May be Skewing Microplastics Data - 2026-04-06 10:30
- With Affordable Storage Options Dwindling, Where to Store Our Data? - 2026-04-06 09:00
- Simulating the AVR8 for a browser-based Arduino emulator - 2026-04-06 06:00
- Flying Cell Towers for Lower-Latency - 2026-04-06 03:00
neatorama
- Kermitsune Miku - 2026-04-06 10:01
- Outsourcing Our Logical Thinking to Artificial Intelligence - 2026-04-06 08:03
- 10 Parts of Modern Life that Are Gross and Disgusting - 2026-04-05 21:40
- Everyday Life in the World's Most Remote Town - 2026-04-05 13:10
- Giving a Cat a Bath All Depends on the Cat - 2026-04-05 12:31
NPR
- Medical supplies are stuck in Dubai, as clinics around the world face shortages - 2026-04-06 12:12
- Trump holds a press conference after profanity-laced post on Iran - 2026-04-06 11:08
- Over-the-counter medication abortion? These researchers say it would be safe - 2026-04-06 10:42
- Supreme Court clears the way for Bannon contempt case to be dismissed - 2026-04-06 08:53
- Trump threatens Iran's power plants, bridges. And, Artemis II readies for lunar flyby - 2026-04-06 05:55
jacobin
- Trump’s $1.5 Trillion for War Comes From Americans’ Pockets - 2026-04-06 08:58
- Americans (Still) Support a Federal Jobs Guarantee - 2026-04-06 07:52
- A Socialist Teacher Is Running for Kentucky State House - 2026-04-06 06:34
- When Rank-and-File Unionists Took On the Mob - 2026-04-06 06:02
- Europe’s Steel Industry Should Be Publicly Owned and Controlled - 2026-04-06 04:06
africa is a country
- The human cost of Kenya’s expanding lakes - 2026-04-03 05:00
- You can’t kick politics out of football - 2026-04-02 17:00
- In Guadalajara, we found joy - 2026-04-02 05:00
- À Guadalajara, nous avons trouvé la joie - 2026-04-02 04:59
- Being right at the wrong time - 2026-04-01 08:00
404media
- Multiple Hackers Warned Anti-Porn App Quittr About Security Issue for Months - 2026-04-06 12:36
- Wisconsinites Can Keep Watching Porn After Governor Vetoes Age Verification Bill - 2026-04-06 10:30
- Wildlife Conservation Police Are Searching Thousands of Flock Cameras for ICE - 2026-04-06 08:53
- Gambling Is Thousands of Years Older Than We Thought, Rewriting Human Evolution - 2026-04-04 08:00
- Behind the Blog: Systems As Designed - 2026-04-03 11:55
techdirt
- Trump Celebrates Easter By Dropping An F-Bomb, Threatening More War Crimes - 2026-04-06 13:02
- Daily Deal: The Academy of Game Art Bundle - 2026-04-06 12:56
- Jacob Siegel’s Error-Filled Book On ‘Censorship’ Got Fact-Checked. He’s Calling It Censorship. - 2026-04-06 11:25
- Supreme Court Shrugs Off Opportunity To Save The First Amendment From The Fifth Circuit’s Antipathy - 2026-04-06 07:24
- Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt - 2026-04-05 14:00
the register personal tech
- We know what day it is but these Raspberry Pi price hikes are no joke - 2026-04-01 04:28
- Raspberry Pi leans into semiconductors as sales climb – especially in US and China - 2026-03-31 08:45
- Android keyboard ditches keys entirely, predicts what you mean - 2026-03-31 04:27
- UK fines Irish Apple outpost over sanctions-busting payments to Russian dev - 2026-03-30 10:09
- Google is to journalism what Vikings were to monks. Now their man will run the BBC - 2026-03-30 04:03
sciencedaily
- AI breakthrough cuts energy use by 100x while boosting accuracy - 2026-04-05 20:23
- Study of 1,700 languages reveals surprising hidden patterns - 2026-04-05 19:01
- Scientists find hidden brain cells helping deadly cancer grow - 2026-04-05 18:48
- Scientists found a protein that drives brain aging — and how to stop it - 2026-04-05 06:08
- Scientists trap light in a layer 1,000x thinner than hair - 2026-04-05 05:43
space.com
- Artemis 2 breaks humanity's all-time distance record during historic loop around the moon (video) - 2026-04-06 13:00
- 'Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord' is Lucasfilm's darkest and most focused animated show yet (review) - 2026-04-06 12:00
- The moon up close: How the Artemis 2 astronauts are photographing their historic lunar flyby - 2026-04-06 11:55
- Deja vu: Trump proposes cutting NASA science funding by 47% again - 2026-04-06 10:00
- Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition - 2026-04-06 08:00
space news
- The moon base has a hardware plan. It needs a software strategy, too. - 2026-04-06 08:00
- Seagate Space Signs MOU with Firefly Aerospace to Collaborate on Offshore Launch Infrastructure for Alpha - 2026-04-06 07:15
- Military space programs confront hidden supply constraints - 2026-04-06 06:30
- Artemis 2 ready to fly around the moon - 2026-04-06 06:21
- Isaacman defends NASA budget proposal despite steep cuts - 2026-04-05 17:20
phys.org
- Why cats stop eating—it's not just fullness - 2026-04-06 13:30
- Expanded MAGIC toolkit makes genome-wide single-cell mosaic analysis possible in Drosophila - 2026-04-06 13:20
- Artemis II crew breaks Apollo 13 record, reaching 252,760 miles from Earth - 2026-04-06 13:14
- Three Himalayan predators coexist by partitioning prey, reducing direct competition - 2026-04-06 13:00
- Robotic floats uncover hidden ocean chemistry in low-oxygen zones - 2026-04-06 12:40
onion latest
- Trump Warns Iran To Accept His Ultimatum Or Face Wrath Of Next Ultimatum - 2026-04-06 13:10
- Social Media Users Sour On Democracy - 2026-04-06 11:22
- Guess You Should’ve Made Your Coffee At Home - 2026-04-06 08:00
- Art Thief Leaves Behind Tacky Jeff Koons Piece - 2026-04-06 08:00
- Pros And Cons Of U.S. Withdrawing From NATO - 2026-04-06 08:00
changelogs
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