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
- DOJ Charges Super Micro Co-Founder For Smuggling $2.5 Billion In Nvidia GPUs To China - 2026-03-20 13:00
- Chuck Norris Dies At 86 - 2026-03-20 12:00
- Amazon Plans Smartphone Comeback More Than a Decade After Fire Phone Flop - 2026-03-20 11:00
- As OpenClaw Enthusiasm Grips China, Kids and Retirees Alike Raise 'Lobsters' - 2026-03-20 10:00
- Opera GX Web Browser Comes To Linux - 2026-03-20 06:00
hackaday
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 362: Compression Molding, IPv4x, and Wired Headphones - 2026-03-20 12:00
- Powering USB Devices with a Bench Supply Adapter Board - 2026-03-20 10:30
- This Week in Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, and a Botnet Shutdown - 2026-03-20 09:00
- Google Unveils New Process for Installing Unverified Android Apps - 2026-03-20 06:00
- A Candle-Powered Game Boy For Post-Apocalyptic Tetris - 2026-03-20 03:00
neatorama
- Stained Glass Sculpture That Pops Out Of Its Frame - 2026-03-20 08:13
- Powering a Game Boy with a Candle - 2026-03-20 08:04
- Cat Repeatedly Crosses US-Canadian Border without Authorization - 2026-03-20 06:14
- An "Alpine Divorce" is Not All That Rare - 2026-03-19 21:15
- Georgia is Very Intentionally Known for Their Peaches - 2026-03-19 16:34
NPR
- Epstein's former attorney testifies he had 'no knowledge whatsoever' of crimes - 2026-03-20 13:28
- Palestinians celebrate Eid in Gaza, making the most of a fragile ceasefire - 2026-03-20 11:19
- Martial arts star Chuck Norris dies at 86 - 2026-03-20 09:50
- He's one reason why aid cuts weren't as dire for the HIV population as predicted - 2026-03-20 07:10
- Trump is dismantling democracy, reports find. And, Treasury to take over student loans - 2026-03-20 06:29
jacobin
- Budgeting Scolds Are Gaslighting Struggling Americans - 2026-03-20 07:35
- Celebrities Can’t Save Opera. Public Funding Can. - 2026-03-20 06:18
- The US Is Spending Billions to Bomb Iran - 2026-03-20 05:09
- The Minecraft Marxists - 2026-03-20 05:00
- Christian Zionists Helped Stoke Trump’s Iran War - 2026-03-20 04:56
africa is a country
- Senegal’s theater of morality - 2026-03-20 07:00
- A life in struggle - 2026-03-19 04:00
- Where do the borders really lie? - 2026-03-18 06:00
- David Hundeyin may not be a false prophet - 2026-03-17 06:00
- Pilgrimage to power - 2026-03-16 08:00
404media
- Behind the Blog: Marathon and the Metaverse - 2026-03-20 10:00
- Tiny Township Fears Iran Drone Strikes Because of New Nuclear Weapons Datacenter - 2026-03-20 08:50
- RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted - 2026-03-19 12:38
- Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll - 2026-03-19 09:42
- Mapping Google's Unmappable City - 2026-03-19 08:28
techdirt
- Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround - 2026-03-20 13:04
- Daily Deal: The 2026 C# Course Bundle - 2026-03-20 12:59
- Black Man Shot By Cops Dies After White Cop Suffering An ‘Anxiety Attack’ Snags Ambulance - 2026-03-20 11:28
- Brendan Carr Crafting ‘Patriotic’ Call Center Onshoring Plan To Provide Cover For Mass Looming Telecom Layoffs - 2026-03-20 07:30
- Greater Than Zero: The Anti-AI Pushback On Gaming Preservation Efforts Makes No Sense - 2026-03-19 21:54
the register personal tech
- Microsoft breaks Microsoft account sign-ins in Windows 11 with latest update - 2026-03-20 08:37
- Time to end the 'uncontrolled experiment' of social media on kids, scientists say - 2026-03-19 15:30
- Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to - 2026-03-19 13:30
- Hide and sleek: Latest Vivaldi release can tuck its UI away until summoned - 2026-03-19 07:15
- Chatbot Romeos keep users talking longer, but harm their mental health - 2026-03-18 15:43
sciencedaily
- Huge study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD - 2026-03-20 07:27
- This common vaccine cuts heart risk nearly in half in new study - 2026-03-20 07:10
- This virus therapy supercharges the immune system against brain cancer - 2026-03-20 06:59
- Closing your eyes to hear better might be a big mistake - 2026-03-20 06:49
- Scientists solve 12,800-year-old climate mystery hidden in Greenland ice - 2026-03-20 05:01
space.com
- Hubble Space Telescope accidentally witnesses comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) breaking apart - 2026-03-20 13:00
- Northern lights may be visible in 18 states tonight and over the weekend - 2026-03-20 12:00
- Rocket Lab scores $190 million launch deal to test hypersonic tech for US military - 2026-03-20 11:00
- Artemis 2 moon rocket rolls back to launch pad | Space photo of the day for March 20, 2026 - 2026-03-20 10:40
- NASA's Artemis 2 moon rocket arrives back at the launch pad - 2026-03-20 09:01
space news
- OHB Sweden wins €248 million contract to build EPS-Sterna constellation - 2026-03-20 13:28
- Holistic space observation: the shift from SSA to SDA - 2026-03-20 08:00
- ESA to fly dedicated Crew Dragon mission to ISS - 2026-03-20 07:18
- Kayhan targets investors, insurers with expanded orbital intelligence platform - 2026-03-20 06:00
- Blue Origin joins the orbital data center race - 2026-03-19 18:30
phys.org
- Courting the competition: Some male fruit flies serenade each other rather than fight - 2026-03-20 13:20
- Ancient sling bullet delivers a 2,100-year-old taunt: 'Learn your lesson!' - 2026-03-20 13:00
- Replicating bacterial DNA relies on accordion-like folds to separate, researchers discover - 2026-03-20 12:40
- Innovative recycling method can convert waste PET into high-quality raw materials and clean hydrogen - 2026-03-20 12:30
- New 'atlas' for dendritic cells creates order in international nomenclature - 2026-03-20 12:20
onion latest
- ABC Cancels Mormonism - 2026-03-20 12:38
- American Baked Potato Association Study Finds It Best To Load ’Er Up - 2026-03-20 11:48
- Dirt-Covered Trump Boys Attempt To Siphon Gas From Ground - 2026-03-20 11:35
- Ryan Gosling Recalls Preparing For ‘Project Hail Mary’ By Consulting Katy Perry - 2026-03-20 08:00
- Trump Adds Name To Kennedy Center Again - 2026-03-20 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