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
- Rapper Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Over Use of Police Raid Footage In His Music Videos - 2026-03-19 15:00
- Google Details New 24-Hour Process To Sideload Unverified Android Apps - 2026-03-19 14:00
- Meta Backtracks, Will Keep Horizon Worlds VR Support 'For Existing Games' - 2026-03-19 13:00
- OpenAI Acquires Developer Tooling Startup Astral - 2026-03-19 12:00
- Walmart Wins Patents To Give Algorithms More Sway Over Prices - 2026-03-19 11:00
hackaday
- Reading the World’s Smallest Hard Drive - 2026-03-19 13:30
- Keebin’ with Kristina: the One With the Ultra-Thin Split - 2026-03-19 12:20
- Sega Genesis Finally Gets Long-Awaited Stock Ticker App 37 Years After Launch - 2026-03-19 10:30
- Artemis II Agenda Keeps Moon-Bound Crew Busy - 2026-03-19 09:00
- Modular 18650 Packs, No Spot Welding Required - 2026-03-19 06:00
neatorama
- He Volunteered as Human Bait for a Study on Mosquitos - 2026-03-19 06:16
- Translator Lets You Talk Like a LinkedIn Influencer - 2026-03-19 05:30
- Tylenol Reduces Pain, But We Don't Know How - 2026-03-18 20:09
- The Mutiny of the Trout Pitted Commoners Against the Nobility - 2026-03-18 09:13
- You've Been Playing Monopoly Wrong All These Years - 2026-03-18 08:24
NPR
- Planned Parenthood chapter settles with EEOC over treatment of white employees - 2026-03-19 15:13
- FDA backs off stricter tanning bed rules with RFK Jr.'s support - 2026-03-19 15:03
- Trump's mediators offer Hamas formal proposal to give up its weapons in Gaza - 2026-03-19 14:19
- Afroman prevails in cops' music video defamation suit after a brief but viral trial - 2026-03-19 13:30
- 'Movement never lies': 100 years of the Martha Graham Dance Company - 2026-03-19 10:37
jacobin
- Capitalism Has a Lot of Room to Redistribute Wealth Right Now - 2026-03-19 10:29
- Brazil’s Left After Lula - 2026-03-19 06:45
- Politics After Literacy - 2026-03-19 06:00
- Julie Menin Is Protecting New York’s Ultrawealthy - 2026-03-19 05:42
- The Many Invasions Survived by Lebanon - 2026-03-19 05:02
africa is a country
- 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
- Who speaks for Iran? - 2026-03-13 08:45
404media
- 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
- Government Registers Aliens.Gov Domain - 2026-03-18 09:27
- Podcast: The Disappearing DOGE Depositions - 2026-03-18 08:05
techdirt
- Prediction Markets Promised Better Information. Instead They’re Creating Powerful Incentives to Corrupt Information. - 2026-03-19 14:16
- White South Africans would Rather Live In South Africa Than In The US Under Trump - 2026-03-19 12:54
- Daily Deal: Zeus Smart Car Kit for Arduino (Battery & SunFounder UNO R3 Included) - 2026-03-19 12:49
- Afroman Wins: Jury Rules Mocking Cops Who Raided Your Home Is Protected Speech - 2026-03-19 11:18
- David Zaslav Will Soon Get $550 Million For Disastrous Warner Bros Reign - 2026-03-19 07:21
the register personal tech
- 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
- Samsung folds the Galaxy Z TriFold after just a few months - 2026-03-18 06:02
- World
Coin's newest pitch: Scan your eyeballs to prove AI agents really represent you - 2026-03-17 15:26
sciencedaily
- The best strength training plan might be simpler than you think - 2026-03-19 07:09
- Physicists discover a heavy cousin of the proton at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider - 2026-03-19 06:31
- Scientists discover tiny rocket engines inside malaria parasites - 2026-03-19 06:19
- Cutting sweet foods doesn’t reduce cravings or improve health - 2026-03-19 05:57
- You don’t need to lose weight to reverse prediabetes, study finds - 2026-03-19 01:32
space.com
- 'A great relief!' Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse satellite phones home after a month of silence - 2026-03-19 15:02
- Earthshine will reveal the moon's hidden face this week — here's how to see it - 2026-03-19 14:00
- Private South Korean rocket exploded last December due to hardware failure, investigation finds - 2026-03-19 13:00
- Lego's first-ever Tintin set is coming next month and it's a space-themed Lego Tintin Moon rocket - 2026-03-19 12:30
- I talked to Andy Weir about the astrobiology behind 'Project Hail Mary' - 2026-03-19 11:00
space news
- Register now: The energy imperative driving the push toward orbital data centers - 2026-03-19 13:37
- Kratos wins $446 million Space Force contract for missile-tracking ground systems - 2026-03-19 13:03
- Portal Space Systems and Paladin Space plan debris removal service - 2026-03-19 12:00
- Eileen Collins on what it takes to become Space Shuttle Commander - 2026-03-19 10:38
- NASA considering sharp increase in robotic lunar landings - 2026-03-19 07:10
phys.org
- A new strategy for talent recruitment involves hiring from the 'tip of the funnel' - 2026-03-19 15:20
- Molecular enhancements help plants light up when they're under attack - 2026-03-19 15:20
- Durum wheat lines combine freezing tolerance with high pasta quality - 2026-03-19 15:00
- Audit managers' work-life balance suffered during COVID - 2026-03-19 14:47
- Light-activated medicines may cut side effects: How a switchable beta blocker works - 2026-03-19 14:40
onion latest
- Trump Repeats False Claim That Iranians Produce Oil From Bodies Like Bees - 2026-03-19 13:22
- Office NCAA Bracket Marks Yearly Interaction With Coworkers - 2026-03-19 12:24
- Strait of Hormones - 2026-03-19 10:56
- What To Know About ‘Project Hail Mary’ - 2026-03-19 08:00
- DHS: ICE Can Enter Homes Without Pants - 2026-03-19 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