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
- Social Networks Agree to Be Rated On Their Teen Safety Efforts - 2026-02-14 14:52
- ByteDance's Seedance 2 Criticized Over AI-Generated Video of Tom Cruise Fighting Brad Pitt - 2026-02-14 13:34
- Earth is Warming Faster Than Ever. But Why? - 2026-02-14 12:34
- The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling - 2026-02-14 11:34
- Sudden Telnet Traffic Drop. Are Telcos Filtering Ports to Block Critical Vulnerability? - 2026-02-14 10:34
hackaday
- Windows 98 on a 2020 ThinkPad P14s Gen 1 Laptop - 2026-02-14 12:00
- Honor Thy Error - 2026-02-14 09:00
- There’s Always Room for 3D Printed Batteries - 2026-02-14 06:00
- Building the Most Simple Motor in Mostly LEGO - 2026-02-14 03:00
- Rock Sphere Machine Produces Off the Charts Satisfaction - 2026-02-14 00:00
neatorama
- When Does Valentine's Day Become Super Creepy? - 2026-02-14 07:14
- The Y Chromosome Tends to Disappear as Men Age, But What Does That Mean? - 2026-02-14 05:32
- <i>The Office's</i> Michael Scott in the World of <i>Fallout 4</i> - 2026-02-13 20:43
- Ancient Roman Medicines Included Human Poop - 2026-02-13 18:13
- How to Build a Working LEGO Submarine - 2026-02-13 10:22
NPR
- American speedskater Jordan Stolz wins second Olympic gold with 500-meter race victory - 2026-02-14 13:02
- US military reports a series of airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria - 2026-02-14 10:29
- 5 European nations say Alexei Navalny was poisoned and blame the Kremlin - 2026-02-14 07:54
- Opinion: Disqualified but not forgotten - 2026-02-14 07:00
- It's a dangerous complication of pregnancy -- but a new drug holds promise - 2026-02-14 06:46
jacobin
- At NYC’s Richest Hospital, 4,200 Nurses Are Still on Strike - 2026-02-14 05:04
- Ending the Surge in Minnesota Isn’t Enough - 2026-02-14 02:55
- Trump Is Using Mexico’s Oil to Put the Squeeze on Cuba - 2026-02-14 02:46
- The Class War on White-Collar Workers Is Just More Capitalism - 2026-02-14 02:46
- There Is Still No Ceasefire in Sight for the People of Gaza - 2026-02-13 09:25
africa is a country
- Visiting Ngara - 2026-02-13 06:00
- Revolution without illusion - 2026-02-12 07:00
- Who owns Ghana’s mission schools? - 2026-02-11 03:30
- Gen Z’s electoral dilemma - 2026-02-10 04:30
- A world reimagined in Black - 2026-02-09 06:00
404media
- Astronomers Create Strange ‘Vortex Crystals’ from Space in the Lab - 2026-02-14 08:00
- Behind the Blog: Unglamorous Work - 2026-02-13 09:27
- Tumbler Ridge Shooter Created Mall Shooting Simulator in Roblox - 2026-02-12 15:56
- Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars - 2026-02-12 13:34
- Cops Are Buying ‘GeoSpy’, an AI That Geolocates Photos in Seconds - 2026-02-12 08:14
techdirt
- This Week In Techdirt History: February 8th – 14th - 2026-02-14 14:00
- UK Supreme Court Affirms Ruling That Oatly Can’t Use ‘Milk’ In Its Almond Milk Branding - 2026-02-13 21:39
- Copyright Kills Competition - 2026-02-13 17:28
- Cops Criticize Flock Safety After It’s Caught Handing Out Access To Federal Agencies - 2026-02-13 15:29
- News Publishers Are Now Blocking The Internet Archive, And We May All Regret It - 2026-02-13 13:57
the register personal tech
- Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny - 2026-02-13 08:05
- Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware - 2026-02-12 08:01
- Memory price explosion triggers PC buying spree - 2026-02-12 07:31
- UK unveils telecoms charter to curb mid-contract bill shocks - 2026-02-12 04:58
- Meta will let users tweak Threads algorithms as long as they ask nicely - 2026-02-11 14:50
sciencedaily
- This breakthrough could finally unlock male birth control - 2026-02-14 09:47
- Brain inspired machines are better at math than expected - 2026-02-14 09:19
- Scientists discover pets are helping an invasive flatworm spread - 2026-02-14 08:34
- Couples who savor happy moments together have stronger, longer-lasting relationships - 2026-02-14 07:25
- The human exposome could change everything we know about disease - 2026-02-14 07:06
space.com
- The 8 best sci-fi couples to emulate this Valentine's Day - 2026-02-14 13:00
- 7 love-struck sci-fi TV series to snuggle up with on Valentine's Day - 2026-02-14 09:00
- This Week In Space podcast: Episode 197 — Inside UNOOSA - 2026-02-14 08:04
- Single this Valentine's Day? Don't worry, the universe has a rose just for you (photo) - 2026-02-14 08:00
- A stellar treat for Valentine's Day: Heart-shaped outburst stuns astronomers - 2026-02-14 07:00
space news
- NASA continues SLS hydrogen leak tests - 2026-02-14 09:59
- A new book captures the forces shaping space: China, the moon and industry - 2026-02-13 17:09
- Senate committee advances FCC satellite licensing bill after changes - 2026-02-13 14:56
- Startup bets on new approach to space-based missile defense - 2026-02-13 09:00
- Crew-12 launches to ISS - 2026-02-13 06:53
phys.org
- What's in your wine? Using NMR to reveal its chemical profile - 2026-02-14 14:10
- Astronomers trace a star's three-year infrared glow to black hole birth - 2026-02-14 14:00
- How Indigenous ideas about nonlinear time can help us navigate ecological crises - 2026-02-14 14:00
- When AI meets physics: Unlocking complex protein structures to accelerate biomedical breakthroughs - 2026-02-14 13:30
- Gradient cathodes boost stability of Li-rich batteries - 2026-02-14 13:00
onion latest
- Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field - 2026-02-14 11:45
- FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie - 2026-02-13 13:47
- ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics - 2026-02-13 08:00
- Kid Rock Sells Entire Music Catalog For Extra-Large Bucket Of Cheese Balls - 2026-02-13 08:00
- Skin of Omission - 2026-02-13 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