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
- Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company - 2026-09-17 20:04
- Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data - 2026-09-17 15:34
- Hackers Stole Flock's Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People - 2026-09-17 11:04
- 'Zuckoff' App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions - 2026-09-17 06:34
- OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively - 2026-09-17 02:04
hackaday
- Your CYD Is Now A Telly - 2026-09-17 18:00
- Keep Your Back Cool While Others Melt - 2026-09-17 15:00
- Why Wave Energy is the Final Frontier of Renewable Energy - 2026-09-17 13:30
- Eye-D Badge Catches Your Attention - 2026-09-17 10:30
- FCC ISM Rules May Shatter Lora Mesh Communities - 2026-09-17 09:00
neatorama
- How You Cut Your Garlic Makes All the Difference - 2026-09-16 15:09
- Your Goal Is to Drive Your Car onto the Moving Trailer - 2026-09-16 12:06
- This Boat is a Bookmobile - 2026-09-16 09:16
- bTwo Men Who Fought in Both the American and Texan Revolutions - 2026-09-16 06:17
- Who Would Win in a Competition Between a Toaster and a Freezer? - 2026-09-16 05:24
NPR
- Trump withdraws Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma state trooper, as his nominee to lead ICE - 2026-09-17 16:17
- ICE agent appears in Minnesota court to face charges in the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant - 2026-09-17 15:23
- Retired Olympic superstar Jessie Diggins wins her first-ever 100 mile trail race - 2026-09-17 15:00
- To prevent deaths in childbirth, Kenyan moms turn to an AI powered chatbot - 2026-09-17 14:33
- A year ago, President Trump pledged to lower Medicaid drug prices. Has that happened? - 2026-09-17 11:45
jacobin
- Why Black Socialists Opposed Marcus Garvey - 2026-09-17 10:43
- Southern Gothic Films Take On the Horrors of the Past - 2026-09-17 10:34
- AI Hype Is Real. So Is AI Risk. - 2026-09-17 09:24
- The New Canada-EU Deal Is More of the Devil We Know - 2026-09-17 08:40
- US Imperialism Is Burning the Planet - 2026-09-17 08:00
404media
- ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft - 2026-09-17 17:01
- ‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People - 2026-09-17 13:07
- University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It - 2026-09-17 10:30
- Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes - 2026-09-17 10:01
- I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy - 2026-09-17 08:33
techdirt
- Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear To Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say - 2026-09-17 17:17
- Trump Says California Can’t Stand Up To Big Telecom If It Wants Taxpayer Grants - 2026-09-17 15:03
- ICE Arrests Ramp Up, Which Only Continues To Prove Most Migrants Aren’t Criminals - 2026-09-17 13:05
- Daily Deal: The Ultimate Guitar Lessons Bundle - 2026-09-17 13:00
- Tariffs Work Great, Says Alabama Senator Who Quietly Asked Trump To Exempt Alabama’s Fireworks, Aluminum, And Airplanes - 2026-09-17 11:22
sciencedaily
- This popular fermented food may help flush nanoplastics from the body - 2026-09-17 09:42
- Scientists discover a mysterious new frog hiding in the Amazon - 2026-09-17 09:08
- A $100 detector can see invisible particles raining down from space - 2026-09-17 08:54
- Astronomers just found the youngest known planet ever - 2026-09-17 08:00
- JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds - 2026-09-17 07:45
space.com
space news
- Satrec Initiative to build 10-centimeter-class optical satellites for Hanwha constellation - 2026-09-17 10:05
- Simera Sense and IDOM partner to develop and produce xScape350 optical system as demand for high-resolution EO imagery surges - 2026-09-17 09:40
- Inside Europe’s push for space autonomy with Josef Aschbacher - 2026-09-17 09:37
- Icarus Robotics tests Joy in Canada ahead of ISS flight - 2026-09-17 08:00
- Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation, in partnership with the BMC3I TAP Lab, Selects Focus Area Cohort Teams for Cohort 26.A - 2026-09-17 08:00
phys.org
- When prepping for disaster, don't forget to pack your teddy bear - 2026-09-17 21:00
- Robots grow and package lettuce year-round in Norway's fully automated farm - 2026-09-17 20:40
- Museums on prescription: How cultural activities are becoming crucial to the public health debate - 2026-09-17 20:20
- Toxic algae can pose a hidden danger to dogs swimming in freshwater - 2026-09-17 20:00
- From toothbrushes to aerospace: Graphene research advances fibers that conduct heat efficiently - 2026-09-17 19:40
onion latest
- Everything We Know About ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ So Far - 2026-09-17 14:12
- FBI Moves To Raise Murder Rate For First Time Since 2023 - 2026-09-17 14:08
- The NFL Concussion Protocol: How The League Determines If A Player Can Return To The Game - 2026-09-17 12:55
- Mitch McConnell Returns To Capitol Hill In Jar Of Formaldehyde - 2026-09-17 11:54
- Barefoot Ed Sheeran Introduces Sock Puppets That Will Open For Him On Tour - 2026-09-17 09:58
changelogs
September 2026
2026-09-14 - r&d - Posted Part 1 of the Sanyo S-540 worklog to the Speaker Design section.
2025-09-09 - removed Register Personal Tech feed from the ticker links. Played with fonts and layout, decided against the changes and rolled them back.
April 2026
2025-04-03 - linkroll - added more links.
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