ultrascience labs
This brand makes the thing which a consumer is satisfied with. - engrish.com
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
- The Browser Company Retires Its Arc Browser, Pushes Users to Dia - 2026-10-22 16:00
- Moderna Shares Plunge After Leak of Cancer Vaccine Data - 2026-10-22 15:01
- Bose Is Buying Skullcandy - 2026-10-22 14:00
- Zoe Kleinman: PHP Is the Cyber Equivalent of an Unexploded Bomb - 2026-10-22 13:00
- Anthropic Takes On Muse With Claude Duet - 2026-10-22 12:00
hackaday
- An Open Source Linear Capacitive Encoder - 2026-10-22 15:00
- Keeping Old Wi-Fi Radios Alive With Stream Conversion - 2026-10-22 13:30
- KiCad… In The Browser? - 2026-10-22 10:30
- Japan Launches Mission to Study Martian Moon - 2026-10-22 09:00
- Floating-Point Addition and Subtraction on Intel’s 8087 - 2026-10-22 06:00
neatorama
- Broken Peach Does "Thriller" for Halloween 2026 - 2026-10-22 04:27
- Famous Preserved Body Parts on Display Around the World - 2026-10-21 17:09
- This French Embassy is Just 50 Meters from France Itself - 2026-10-21 15:08
- Running Doom on a Menstrual Tracker - 2026-10-21 10:37
- Cephalopod Reproduction is Bizarre, Complicated, and Hardcore - 2026-10-21 08:52
NPR
- Actor Tom Skerritt, who played dads, cops and commanding officers, has died - 2026-10-22 15:12
- Federal judge restricts DHS field operations looking for noncitizen voters - 2026-10-22 14:16
- Greetings from the Brazil-Argentina border, where waterfalls are flowing at near-record rates - 2026-10-22 08:50
- U.S., Israel may attack Iran post-elections. And, SpaceX and Tesla consider merging - 2026-10-22 06:28
- Achy from sitting at a desk all day? Try doing this - 2026-10-22 04:01
jacobin
- Lawsuits Can’t Restrain Big Tech - 2026-10-22 12:48
- Evangelicals’ 10 Lessons in Leader Development for the Left - 2026-10-22 11:44
- The Creativity Con Ate the Middle Class - 2026-10-22 10:09
- The Strange Power of You Can See Everything - 2026-10-22 10:00
- We Can Beat the Right With a Left-Wing Affordability Agenda - 2026-10-22 08:46
404media
- Portal Texas Used to ‘Rubber Stamp’ Data Centers Down After 404 Media Reporting - 2026-10-22 15:26
- This Woman's Living a CashApp Scam Nightmare - 2026-10-22 10:33
- AI Is Changing Everything About Hacking. No One Knows What Happens Next - 2026-10-22 09:23
- AI Is Already 'Amplifying the Destruction' of War - 2026-10-22 09:20
- Cops Warned to Look for ‘Suspicious Behavior’ From People Opposing Flock at City Council Meetings - 2026-10-21 12:09
techdirt
- Starlink Throttling In Ukraine Again Shows Musk’s Right Wing Extremism Is A National Security Threat - 2026-10-22 15:03
- JD Vance Says Trump Hates People Cashing In On Government Access. Meet Former Trump Lawyer Alina Habba’s $50 Million Contract. - 2026-10-22 13:06
- Daily Deal: Build A Weather App With Ruby On Rails - 2026-10-22 13:01
- ICE Officers Who Ran Over Man Were Trying To Arrest Someone Who Had Been Dead For Years - 2026-10-22 11:24
- Brendan Carr, A Weak Coward, Threatens Journalists For Covering Polls Trump Doesn’t Like - 2026-10-22 07:26
sciencedaily
- Birds are more afraid of women than men. Scientists have no idea why - 2026-10-22 07:06
- Oxford scientists discover how viruses build themselves without a blueprint - 2026-10-22 06:42
- A revolutionary new microscope could reveal the hidden machinery of life - 2026-10-22 06:30
- Honey bees are bullying other bees, scientists discover - 2026-10-22 06:20
- NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals a spectacular new view of Mars with a mystery on the horizon - 2026-10-22 06:03
space news
- Rethinking networks in space with Aalyria’s Brian Barritt - 2026-10-22 13:13
- TechnoMile Recognized as a 2026 Inc. Power Partner Award Winner - 2026-10-21 10:26
- Global Satcom Services Revenues to Reach $145 Billion by 2035 - 2026-10-21 10:00
- Space Nuclear Power Corporation Awarded DARPA Agreement for Ground Test of Autonomous Nuclear Reactor Controller - 2026-10-21 09:29
- Solstar provides Wi-Fi connectivity for NASA proximity operations demonstration - 2026-10-21 07:00
phys.org
- Supramolecular assembly opens a new route to building quantum materials - 2026-10-22 17:00
- How farming helped cause two medieval tsunamis in an Italian lake—and why the danger has returned - 2026-10-22 17:00
- Helping microgreens pack even more of a nutritional punch - 2026-10-22 16:50
- Amino acid stabilizes material's quantum state above room temperature - 2026-10-22 16:40
- Most AI chatbots stay in the political middle ground, with Grok being an exception - 2026-10-22 16:40
onion latest
- Plan To Splurge Scrapped On Account Of Price - 2026-10-22 14:30
- Mom Making Her Birthday All About Her - 2026-10-22 12:46
- Nathan Fielder Quietly Deletes Footage Of Theranos Machine Working Perfectly - 2026-10-22 12:14
- The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Elizabeth Holmes - 2026-10-22 10:55
- Surgeons Amputate Wrong Leg - 2026-10-22 08:00
changelogs
September 2026
2025-09-25 - removed space.com feed from the ticker links. Their site updated and the feed.xml is empty. Now their feeds link is a pointless flyout tab at the top of their page.
2026-09-14 - r&d - Posted Part 1 of the Sanyo S-540 worklog to the Speaker Design section.
2025-09-09 - removed Register Personal Tech feed from the ticker links. Played with fonts and layout, decided against the changes and rolled them back.
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