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
- 40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power - 2026-04-26 02:34
- Is AI Cannibalizing Human Intelligence? A Neuroscientist's Way to Stop It - 2026-04-25 23:34
- Trump Fires All 24 Members of America's National Science Board - 2026-04-25 19:45
- Australia's Teen Social Media Ban Isn't Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds - 2026-04-25 18:09
- Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill - 2026-04-25 16:26
hackaday
- The Arduino UNO, Basically - 2026-04-26 03:00
- Slicer Settings for “Indestructible” Battle-Bot Worthy PLA Parts - 2026-04-26 00:00
- Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys - 2026-04-25 21:00
- You Wouldn’t Download a Combustion Engine - 2026-04-25 18:00
- 2026 Green Powered Challenge: Ventilate Your Way To Power! - 2026-04-25 15:00
neatorama
- The Werewolf Who Was On God's Side - 2026-04-25 20:25
- The Role of Dopamine May Lead to a Breakthrough in Alzheimer's Disease - 2026-04-25 16:32
- Doing Your Business Before the Modern Flush Toilet Came About - 2026-04-25 16:11
- These Are Lumberjack Sandals - 2026-04-25 05:46
- Shakespeare's Missing Skull, and the Possible Story Behind It - 2026-04-24 19:58
NPR
- The Supreme Court case that could redefine your digital privacy - 2026-04-26 04:00
- For students labeled 'emotionally disturbed,' separation can lead to isolation - 2026-04-26 04:00
- A suspect is in custody after Trump is rushed from correspondents' dinner - 2026-04-25 20:18
- New CEO Steve O'Donnell vows to unite NASCAR and return the fun - 2026-04-25 19:32
- Dirk Kempthorne, former Idaho governor and U.S. Interior secretary, dies at 74 - 2026-04-25 16:49
jacobin
- Yakov Kronrod’s Plan for Economic Democracy in the USSR - 2026-04-22 08:31
- Washington Wants Its Military Base Back - 2026-04-22 08:25
- Claire Valdez’s Bold Program for Labor in Congress - 2026-04-22 07:17
- The Jewish Labor Bund Stood Against Zionism - 2026-04-22 06:05
- Trump Officials Built an AI Tool to Turbocharge Deregulation - 2026-04-22 04:12
africa is a country
- How to fix a match for $280 - 2026-04-22 06:30
- Truquer un match pour 280 dollars - 2026-04-22 06:29
- The music is not yours - 2026-04-21 16:30
- Sovereignty beyond the nation - 2026-04-20 07:00
- Fields of dependency - 2026-04-17 09:00
404media
- A Mysterious Golden Orb Was Discovered Under the Sea. We Finally Know What It Is. - 2026-04-25 08:00
- Behind the Blog: Waiting in the Apple Store - 2026-04-24 12:05
- The AI Compute Crunch Is Here (and It's Affecting the Entire Economy) - 2026-04-24 08:53
- Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center - 2026-04-23 15:30
- Researchers Simulated a Delusional User to Test Chatbot Safety - 2026-04-23 08:52
techdirt
- Game Jam Winner Spotlight: I Could Do That! - 2026-04-25 14:00
- RFK Jr. & White House Appear At Odds Over Attempts To Rein Him In - 2026-04-24 21:39
- Good News If You Have A Sony TV And Were Hoping It Would Become Less Useful For No Reason - 2026-04-24 17:12
- Fifth Circuit Continues Running The Table, Says Ten Commandments Law In Texas Is Constitutional - 2026-04-24 14:55
- Kash Patel Filed a Defamation Case Monday. His Other Defamation Case Got Dismissed Tuesday. - 2026-04-24 12:55
the register personal tech
- More ancient Linux device support faces the chop - 2026-04-24 09:15
- To fix this Wi-Fi network, we'll need a crane - 2026-04-24 02:00
- YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard - 2026-04-23 12:43
- Pass the key, passwords have passed their sell-by date - 2026-04-23 03:00
- Right to repair champ Framework punts modular 13in laptop with Core Ultra Series 3 - 2026-04-22 07:31
sciencedaily
- Fish oil may be hurting your brain, new study finds - 2026-04-26 00:57
- Graphene kills harmful bacteria “superbugs” but spares human cells - 2026-04-26 00:07
- Warming waters are supercharging an invasive salmon predator in Alaska - 2026-04-25 22:24
- Aggressive “hulk” lizards are wiping out millions of years of evolution - 2026-04-25 22:14
- Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought - 2026-04-25 11:26
space.com
- Best space prison movies - 2026-04-25 10:00
- Satellite snaps amazing 36th birthday pic of Hubble Space Telescope (photo) - 2026-04-25 09:00
- From Apollo to alien worlds: 4 'firsts' you can spot in the night sky tonight - 2026-04-25 08:00
- Why do some starburst galaxies mysteriously shut down? New study provides clues - 2026-04-25 07:00
- Russia launches 3 tons of cargo to the International Space Station from Kazakhstan (video) - 2026-04-25 05:00
space news
- NASA reserves science payload space for Mars telecommunications mission - 2026-04-25 18:31
- Space Force faces surge in demand for heavy-lift launches - 2026-04-25 11:07
- Space Force awards up to $3.2 billion for Golden Dome interceptor prototypes - 2026-04-24 15:47
- The governance gap: Why orbital data centers need certification before they scale - 2026-04-24 07:00
- Astrobotic tests advanced rocket engine - 2026-04-24 06:56
phys.org
- Bonuses can lower self-set goals and reduce performance, experiment suggests - 2026-04-25 18:30
- Microfluidic device tracks cell 'squishiness' faster and more reliably than standard methods - 2026-04-25 17:40
- Australian farmers are battling another potential mouse plague—what is causing it? - 2026-04-25 17:30
- Forty years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl - 2026-04-25 16:30
- Fluorescent probe lights up centrioles and cilia in living cells across species - 2026-04-25 16:00
onion latest
- Over 200,000 Heated Socks Recalled Due To Burns - 2026-04-25 16:03
- U.S. Military To No Longer Require Flu Shots - 2026-04-24 14:46
- Regulars Angry Dive Bar Now Popular Enough To Be Financially Solvent - 2026-04-24 14:45
- Nation Enthralled By Adult Man With Huge Juicy Ass - 2026-04-24 14:41
- Red Light Therapy: Myth Vs. Fact - 2026-04-24 14:39
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