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
- Researchers Develop New Tool To Measure Biological Age - 2025-07-11 21:02
- Russian Basketball Player Arrested For Alleged Role In Ransomware Attacks - 2025-07-11 20:25
- iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a 'Piss-Poor Excuse For a Controller' - 2025-07-11 19:45
- JPMorgan Tells Fintechs They Have To Pay Up For Customer Data - 2025-07-11 19:02
- OpenAI's Windsurf Deal Is Off, Windsurf's CEO Is Going To Google - 2025-07-11 18:20
hackaday
- DIY X-Rays Made Easy - 2025-07-11 18:00
- Designing a CPU with only Memory Chips - 2025-07-11 15:00
- An Induction Lamp Made on the Same Principle as Ordinary Fluorescent Lamp - 2025-07-11 13:30
- Dearest C++, Let Me Count the Ways I Love/Hate Thee - 2025-07-11 12:00
- Hackaday Podcast Episode 328: Benchies, Beanies, and Back to the Future - 2025-07-11 11:00
neatorama
- The Only Jewish Woman in a Japanese Internment Camp - 2025-07-11 16:13
- How to Land Like a Marvel Superhero - 2025-07-11 12:12
- Missing Piece of Ship Found 83 Years Later - 2025-07-11 05:23
- A Walking Butt Sings a Song - 2025-07-10 18:12
- Building Permit Building Closed Due to Lack of Building Permit - 2025-07-10 14:13
NPR
- David Gergen, adviser to 4 presidents, dies at 83 - 2025-07-11 19:52
- South Carolina honors Robert Smalls with first statue of a Black man at the Capitol - 2025-07-11 16:54
- Preliminary report says fuel switches were cut off before Air India Boeing 787 crash - 2025-07-11 16:29
- 2 years ago, Amanda Anisimova put down her racket. Now she's in the Wimbledon final - 2025-07-11 16:11
- At a Massachusetts cafe, helping the community is on the menu - 2025-07-11 15:39
jacobin
- Socialism in Our Time: A Jacobin Conference - 2025-07-11 09:59
- Mark Carney Is Hacking Away at Canada’s Public Sector - 2025-07-11 08:24
- Israel’s Parliament Is Silencing Its Palestinian Voices - 2025-07-11 06:39
- Kenyan Women’s Gulf Jobs Begin With Hope and End in Horror - 2025-07-11 05:50
- Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Will Deepen Inequality - 2025-07-11 04:45
africa is a country
- In death, we part - 2025-07-11 05:00
- Whose game is remembered? - 2025-07-10 07:00
- The sound of black identity - 2025-07-09 04:00
- No ritmo da identidade black - 2025-07-09 03:59
- Sovereignty or supremacy? - 2025-07-07 06:00
404media
- Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms - 2025-07-11 12:52
- Behind the Blog: In Our Lane - 2025-07-11 10:49
- Our Galaxy May Contain a Mysterious Force. It Could Change Physics Forever. - 2025-07-10 09:12
- The UN Made AI-Generated Refugees - 2025-07-10 09:05
- Trump Mobile Keeps Charging My Credit Card And I Have No Idea Why - 2025-07-10 08:32
techdirt
- Prepare For A New Dodgy Trump-Era Tax On Netflix And Other Streaming Services - 2025-07-11 17:50
- The Magical Thinking That’s Killing Our Humanity - 2025-07-11 15:53
- America’s Measles Counts Surpass 2019 Outbreak, Highest In Over Three Decades - 2025-07-11 14:18
- Crowd-Sourced ICE Tracking Alerts Aim To Provide Local Communities With Early Warning Of Immigration Raids - 2025-07-11 12:56
- Daily Deal: Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 - 2025-07-11 12:51
the register personal tech
- Security company hired a used car salesman to build a website, and it didn't end well - 2025-07-11 02:29
- China's biggest car rental company now offers autonomous cars - 2025-07-10 22:59
- Trump tariffs turn techies topsy-turvy as US braces for PC tax - 2025-07-10 09:28
- Elon Musk's Grok chatbot posts Mein Kampf 2.0 in now-deleted X rant - 2025-07-09 08:15
- Samsung acquires Xealth to merge hospital records with data from wearables - 2025-07-08 21:28
sciencedaily
- In seconds, AI builds proteins to battle cancer and antibiotic resistance - 2025-07-10 23:01
- How a hidden brain circuit fuels fibromyalgia, migraines, and PTSD - 2025-07-10 22:37
- Brighter, bolder, hotter: Why female guppies can't resist orange - 2025-07-10 22:15
- Lemurs age without inflammation—and it could change human health forever - 2025-07-10 11:11
- This magnetic breakthrough could make AI 10x more efficient - 2025-07-10 10:31
space.com
- Act fast to get the best cameras for less — Amazon Prime Day ends tonight - 2025-07-11 16:30
- 'Darkness is coming.' 'Foundation' Season 3 arrives today on Apple TV+ - 2025-07-11 16:00
- Want a last minute steal? Save $200 on this pro-level Sony A7R IV mirrorless camera as Walmart takes on Amazon - 2025-07-11 16:00
- Keeping wastewater flowing into tomorrow's coffee | On the ISS this week July 7 - 11, 2025 - 2025-07-11 15:00
- Sunspot crackling with magnetic 'bombs' is now turning toward Earth (photo) - 2025-07-11 14:00
space news
- Varda Space Industries raises $187 million - 2025-07-11 18:35
- We’ve lost our ability to be awed by space - 2025-07-11 08:00
- Experimental Chinese satellite turns up in unexpected orbit - 2025-07-11 06:56
- NASA considering flying only cargo on next Starliner mission - 2025-07-11 06:02
- China eyes the moon, Mars and space dominance - 2025-07-11 06:00
phys.org
- Cutting to the core of how 3D structure shapes gene activity - 2025-07-11 15:13
- Antibody mapping chip speeds up vaccine research by revealing hidden binding sites quickly - 2025-07-11 15:10
- Exploring animal life in the radioactive shadows of Chornobyl and Fukushima - 2025-07-11 15:07
- Polar vortex patterns explain shifting US winter cold despite warming climate - 2025-07-11 13:00
- Polymer coating extends half life of MXene-based air quality sensor by 200% and enables regeneration - 2025-07-11 13:00
onion latest
- The Onion Film Standard: ‘28 Years Later’ - 2025-07-11 11:15
- What To Know About The New ‘Superman’ Movie - 2025-07-11 10:48
- Milwaukee Removes Fonzie Statue Amid Reckoning With Greaser Past - 2025-07-11 09:36
- Australian Woman Convicted Of Triple Murder Using Poisonous Mushrooms - 2025-07-11 08:00
- White Sox Fans Asked To Remove Polish Sausage From Mouths During National Anthem - 2025-07-11 08:00
changelogs
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