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
- 'Everyone is Stealing TV' - 2026-02-04 13:00
- As Software Stocks Slump, Investors Debate AI's Existential Threat - 2026-02-04 12:09
- Anthropic Pledges To Keep Claude Ad-free, Calls AI Conversations a 'Space To Think' - 2026-02-04 10:00
- Pinterest Sacks Workers For Creating Tool To Track Layoffs - 2026-02-04 09:01
- Why Google's Android for PC Launch May Be Messy and Controversial - 2026-02-04 08:02
hackaday
- FLOSS Weekly Episode 863: Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason - 2026-02-04 13:30
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One with the RollerMouse Keyboard - 2026-02-04 12:00
- A Keyboard for Anything, Without a Keyboard - 2026-02-04 10:30
- I, Integrated Circuit - 2026-02-04 09:00
- Comparing a Clone Raspberry Pi Pico 2 With an Original One - 2026-02-04 06:00
neatorama
- The Man Who Flew an Airplane into Space - 2026-02-04 11:37
- Slave Leia/Sally and Jabba the Oogie - 2026-02-03 14:29
- The Clever Way K-Pop Makes Two Languages Cool - 2026-02-03 14:26
- The Last Soldier of the French and Indian War May Also Be the Oldest Photo Subject - 2026-02-03 11:36
- Rare Disease Keeps Cat From Growing - 2026-02-03 11:30
NPR
- The Supreme Court lets California use its new, Democratic-friendly congressional map - 2026-02-04 12:53
- Is the U.S. heading into a dictatorship? - 2026-02-04 12:23
- Reporter's notebook: A peek inside the Olympic Village - 2026-02-04 12:17
- Search for Nancy Guthrie, mother of 'Today' show host Savannah Guthrie, enters 4th day - 2026-02-04 10:33
- Greetings from Kyiv, where candles are the last option during wartime blackouts - 2026-02-04 08:41
jacobin
- Governor Kathy Hochul Is Undermining Striking New York Nurses - 2026-02-04 08:41
- Send Help and Sam Raimi’s Genre Movie Joy - 2026-02-04 05:02
- Did Big Oil Conspire to Kneecap the EV Industry? - 2026-02-04 04:00
- The Netherlands’ New Era of Militarized Neoliberalism - 2026-02-04 03:00
- Trump’s SEC May Tee Up a Repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis - 2026-02-03 10:33
africa is a country
- Co-opting African literature - 2026-02-04 04:00
- Repression by other means - 2026-02-03 04:30
- Who gets to tell the history of Mau Mau? - 2026-02-02 05:45
- What Kwame Nkrumah knew about profit shifting - 2026-01-30 18:00
- Labor without boundaries - 2026-01-29 06:00
404media
- Scientists Keep Discovering Mysterious Ancient Tunnels Across Europe - 2026-02-04 09:53
- FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled - 2026-02-04 08:05
- Podcast: The Latest Epstein Dump is a Disaster - 2026-02-04 08:00
- Hackers and Trolls Target Wave of ICE Spotting Apps - 2026-02-03 09:33
- Wedding Photo Booth Company Exposes Customers’ Drunken Photos - 2026-02-03 08:00
techdirt
- Jeff Bezos Is Destroying What’s Left Of The Washington Post To Please Our Dim, Unpopular Autocrats - 2026-02-04 14:02
- Federal Judges Are Done With The Deference: Courts Call Out Admin’s Immigration ‘Bullshit’ In Increasingly Pointed Terms - 2026-02-04 12:54
- Daily Deal: SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit for Arduino - 2026-02-04 12:49
- DOJ Prosecutors Directly Contradict The DHS’s Oregon Shooting Narrative - 2026-02-04 11:43
- Trumpland Ramps Up Attacks On Netflix Warner Brothers Merger To Help Larry Ellison - 2026-02-04 07:38
the register personal tech
- Microsoft engineer speedruns Raspberry Pi magic smoke in five minutes - 2026-02-04 09:58
- UK to properly probe xAI to test if its revolting robo-smut generator broke the law - 2026-02-04 00:46
- HP CEO prints final page after six years, moves to PayPal - 2026-02-03 07:54
- X marks the raid: French cops swoop on Musk's Paris ops - 2026-02-03 07:09
- Let them eat Pi: RAM shortage bumps Raspberry prices as much as $60 - 2026-02-02 16:26
sciencedaily
- The overlooked nutrition risk of Ozempic and Wegovy - 2026-02-04 09:43
- A 25-year study found an unexpected link between cheese and dementia - 2026-02-04 08:44
- MIT's new brain tool could finally explain consciousness - 2026-02-04 06:42
- Melting Antarctic ice may weaken a major carbon sink - 2026-02-04 03:32
- Why heart disease risk in type 2 diabetes looks different for men and women - 2026-02-04 01:21
space.com
- Watch dead neutron stars smash together in new NASA supercomputer simulation - 2026-02-04 14:00
- Star Trek needs to go back to 20+ episode seasons — and there's never been a better time - 2026-02-04 13:00
- Photographer captures rare aurora over Brazil during intense geomagnetic storm (photo) - 2026-02-04 12:00
- Astronomers relieved as industrial plant threatening Earth's darkest sky gets cancelled - 2026-02-04 11:00
- A monstrous sunspot 15 Earth's wide is currently facing Earth: Here's how to see it for yourself - 2026-02-04 10:00
space news
- FireSat adds orbit-visualization software to help firefighters plan around satellite passes - 2026-02-04 09:50
- Space telescopes at light speed - 2026-02-04 09:00
- Silicon as strategy: the hidden battleground of the new space race - 2026-02-04 08:00
- Senate committee delays consideration of bill to streamline FCC satellite licensing - 2026-02-04 07:01
- SmallSat Alliance shifts focus from proliferation to coordination - 2026-02-04 06:16
phys.org
- Lab-grown beef: Novel line of bovine embryonic stem cells shows promise - 2026-02-04 14:01
- 2024 total eclipse subtly shifted animal calling across three Ohio prairies, study finds - 2026-02-04 14:00
- Dual-atom platinum–ruthenium catalyst achieves efficient low-temperature carbon monoxide oxidation - 2026-02-04 13:47
- How high temperatures disrupt anthocyanin metabolism in red kiwifruit - 2026-02-04 13:45
- Invisible actors in groundwater mapped for first time, revealing role in freshwater reservoir - 2026-02-04 13:40
onion latest
- ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Reader Can’t Believe How Long It Taking Sam And Frodo To Fuck - 2026-02-04 10:47
- Inhuman Resources - 2026-02-04 10:46
- U-Haul Unveils Live-In Trucks To Sleep In While You Sort Some Shit Out - 2026-02-04 10:41
- Pet Iguana Assumed He’d Move Out Of Starter Tank By Now - 2026-02-04 10:31
- Fat Dad Sits On TV Remote Like Mother Hen Warming Young - 2026-02-04 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