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
- IBM Shares Crater 13% After Anthropic Says Claude Code Can Tackle COBOL Modernization - 2026-02-23 15:10
- Linus Torvalds: Someone 'More Competent Who Isn't Afraid of Numbers Past the Teens' Will Take Over Linux One Day - 2026-02-23 13:36
- 'How Many AIs Does It Take To Read a PDF?' - 2026-02-23 12:50
- Anthropic Accuses Chinese Companies of Siphoning Data From Claude - 2026-02-23 12:10
- Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible - 2026-02-23 11:25
hackaday
- ATABoy is an Open Source USB Bridge For Old IDE Drives - 2026-02-23 13:30
- Tech In Plain Sight: Projection Clocks - 2026-02-23 12:00
- Nuclear Waste Remediation by Proton Beam - 2026-02-23 10:30
- How Safe Are Old Airbags, Anyway? - 2026-02-23 09:00
- Calculus by Oscilloscope - 2026-02-23 06:00
neatorama
- You Can Buy This Motorcycle Made for Paratroopers - 2026-02-23 12:27
- The Statistical Dangers of Eating Raw Fish - 2026-02-23 11:31
- Can You Understand English as It Was Once Written? - 2026-02-22 19:45
- The Magical Fabric from Ancient China - 2026-02-22 18:48
- A Wood-Fired Outdoor Shower - 2026-02-22 07:44
NPR
- The FDA creates a quicker path for gene therapies - 2026-02-23 14:57
- BAFTAs apologize after guest with Tourette syndrome uses racial slur during ceremony - 2026-02-23 14:18
- 'Everything was in pieces:' Lindsey Vonn describes grueling surgery on broken leg - 2026-02-23 13:29
- A new lawsuit alleges DHS illegally tracked and intimidated observers - 2026-02-23 13:17
- A powerful winter storm is roiling travel across the northeastern U.S. - 2026-02-23 12:16
jacobin
- Another Kingpin Falls, Nothing Changes - 2026-02-23 08:54
- Just Think of Wuthering Heights as a Barbie Offshoot - 2026-02-23 06:40
- Your Individual Boycotts Aren’t Helping - 2026-02-23 05:21
- On Tariffs, Neil Gorsuch Is Hardly Apolitical - 2026-02-23 03:59
- The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front - 2026-02-23 03:03
africa is a country
- Betraying Abuja’s green soul - 2026-02-23 06:00
- Atayese - 2026-02-20 17:30
- Bread or Messi? - 2026-02-20 05:45
- The roots of our storytelling - 2026-02-18 06:00
- Where have the Chapungu gone? - 2026-02-17 04:30
404media
- A Billion Years Are Mysteriously Missing From Earth’s History. Now, We Know Why. - 2026-02-23 14:00
- Meta's AI Patent to Simulate Dead People Shows the Dangers of 'Spectral Labor' - 2026-02-23 10:24
- Podcast: Privacy Under Pressure (With Harlo Holmes) - 2026-02-23 09:44
- Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox - 2026-02-23 09:20
- How ICE and CBP Use Free Walkie-Talkie App ‘Zello’ to Power Their Operations - 2026-02-23 08:51
techdirt
- Yes, Section 230 Should Apply Equally To Algorithmic Recommendations - 2026-02-23 14:59
- Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety - 2026-02-23 12:55
- Daily Deal: The 2026 Ultimate Project Managers Training Bundle - 2026-02-23 12:50
- The Media Still Can’t Figure Out That Trump Says Things That Aren’t True - 2026-02-23 11:35
- Who Knew? Mindless And Corrupt Deregulation Apparently Kills People - 2026-02-23 07:33
the register personal tech
- Nvidia superchip infusion finally coming to Windows PCs, report says - 2026-02-23 13:59
- Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty - 2026-02-23 09:17
- Work experience kids messed with manager's PC to send him to Ctrl-Alt-Del hell - 2026-02-23 01:30
- Ofcom's grumble-o-meter lights up for EE, TalkTalk, Vodafone - 2026-02-21 02:27
- Desktop tech sent to prison for an education on strange places to put tattoos - 2026-02-20 01:30
sciencedaily
- A hidden force beneath the Atlantic ripped open a 500 kilometer canyon - 2026-02-23 10:01
- Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years - 2026-02-23 09:24
- Less sugar as a baby, fewer heart attacks as an adult - 2026-02-23 08:21
- Scientists create universal nasal spray vaccine that protects against COVID, flu, and pneumonia - 2026-02-23 07:45
- Babies exposed to far more “forever chemicals” before birth than scientists knew - 2026-02-23 06:29
space.com
- China's mysterious Shenlong space plane recently launched on its 4th mission. What is it doing up there? - 2026-02-23 13:00
- Satellites watch as bomb cyclone hits northeast U.S. with snow and lightning - 2026-02-23 12:28
- 12 different ways to watch 'Project Hail Mary' in theaters? Outrageous, and we love it (video) - 2026-02-23 11:00
- Best space games: 15 out-of-this-world adventures for space fans - 2026-02-23 10:22
- Total lunar eclipse March 2026: Live updates - 2026-02-23 10:09
space news
- Space Force seeks market answers on in-orbit refueling - 2026-02-23 13:00
- AST SpaceMobile wins $30 million contract for military broadband demo - 2026-02-23 12:08
- Aalyria hits $1.3 billion valuation after raising funds for satellite mesh network - 2026-02-23 11:03
- Europe’s progress on future access-to-space gains momentum with upcoming reusable launcher flight test - 2026-02-23 09:19
- Engineering Behind EarthDaily: Solving for Global Daily Coverage, Scientific Quality, and High-Spectral Diversity - 2026-02-23 08:04
phys.org
- Early-life challenges and experiences shape how boldly bats behave as adults - 2026-02-23 15:22
- Researchers copy viral strategies to get mRNA medicines into cells in one piece - 2026-02-23 15:20
- EPA criminal sanctions align with a county's wealth, not pollution, study finds - 2026-02-23 15:20
- Animal muscles inspire biomaterial design for agriculture, fabrics and medicine - 2026-02-23 15:15
- Why the planet doesn't dry out all at once: Scientists solve a global climate puzzle - 2026-02-23 15:13
onion latest
- U.S. Populace Appoints Designated Survivor - 2026-02-23 13:59
- U.S. Tourists Advised To Temporarily Avoid Shootouts With Mexican Drug Cartels - 2026-02-23 13:19
- Trump Invites Caucasian Half Of Alysa Liu To Visit White House - 2026-02-23 12:30
- What To Know About The SAVE America Act - 2026-02-23 10:33
- Mexico To Deploy Robotic Police Dogs For 2026 FIFA World Cup - 2026-02-23 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