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
- UK Households To Be Urged To Use More Power This Summer As Renewables Soar - 2026-04-16 02:00
- Nature Is Still Molding Human Genes, Study Finds - 2026-04-15 22:30
- Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog Can Now Read Gauges, Spot Spills, and Reason - 2026-04-15 18:00
- US Jobs Too Important To Risk Chinese Car Imports, Says Ford CEO - 2026-04-15 17:00
- Cal.com Is Going Closed Source Because of AI - 2026-04-15 16:00
hackaday
- Cooking a Raspberry Pi FireWire HAT With Backfeeding - 2026-04-16 00:00
- Haiku Isn’t Just for X86 Anymore, Boots on ARM in QEMU - 2026-04-15 21:00
- Python Comes to the Arduino Uno Q - 2026-04-15 18:00
- Hacking Fermentation for Infinite Pickles from Pass-thru Bioreactor - 2026-04-15 15:00
- A Look at Full Spectrum 3D Printing - 2026-04-15 13:30
neatorama
- The Thoughts of <i>The Thinker</i> Are No Secret - 2026-04-15 20:13
- The Dark Side of Some Popular Children's Toys - 2026-04-15 10:39
- An Honest Trailer for <i>Who Framed Roger Rabbit</i> - 2026-04-15 04:20
- Space Movies Can Be Surprisingly Scientifically Accurate - 2026-04-14 20:16
- Automatic Subtitles on <i>Sesame Street</i> - 2026-04-14 13:02
NPR
- French government seeking release of 86-year-old French widow detained by ICE - 2026-04-16 00:35
- Bukele signs reforms allowing life prison sentences for people as young as 12 - 2026-04-16 00:26
- A Colorado hospital profits from resolving language barriers - 2026-04-15 23:01
- Middle East conflict causes a fluoride shortage for US drinking water - 2026-04-15 15:38
- Popes have spoken out on politics before. But with Trump and Pope Leo it's different - 2026-04-15 14:58
jacobin
- India’s Working Poor Are Being Priced Out of Basic Meals - 2026-04-15 08:31
- The CBC May Side With Trump on the Surveillance Bill - 2026-04-15 07:44
- ICE Just Signed a $12 Million Deal to Track Migrants With AI - 2026-04-15 06:48
- The Imperial Presidency Is Bigger Than Donald Trump - 2026-04-15 06:04
- What Mexico Can Teach New York About Public Groceries - 2026-04-15 04:34
africa is a country
- The demographic dividend no one wants to pay - 2026-04-15 12:45
- The debts our parents left us - 2026-04-14 07:00
- Whose progress? - 2026-04-13 07:00
- Art has never been innocent - 2026-04-10 07:00
- Between fandom and dissent - 2026-04-09 04:00
404media
- Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts - 2026-04-15 19:09
- Ukraine Says Russians are Surrendering to Robots - 2026-04-15 12:43
- Emails Reveal Space Force’s Hardest Mission Is Writing a Song - 2026-04-15 08:29
- Podcast: How the FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages - 2026-04-15 07:50
- Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says - 2026-04-14 14:50
techdirt
- Nintendo’s Haphazard ‘Mario Maker 2’ Takedown Process Rife With Abuse - 2026-04-15 21:56
- War As A Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening The Screws On Speech—Again - 2026-04-15 17:16
- ACAB: Cops Are Bringing ‘Delinquency Of A Minor’ Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests - 2026-04-15 15:15
- Judge Tosses Trump’s Ridiculous $10 Billion Defamation Suit Against Rupert Murdoch - 2026-04-15 13:08
- Daily Deal: Geekey Multi-Tool - 2026-04-15 13:03
the register personal tech
- The only technology that died more times than VR is AI, and that seems to have worked out - 2026-04-15 02:03
- Microsoft raises UK Surface prices as RAM crisis reaches the checkout - 2026-04-14 05:31
- NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round - 2026-04-13 04:27
- Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user - 2026-04-12 03:01
- Electronics industry says FCC's foreign-made router policy is a bit of a mesh - 2026-04-10 10:44
sciencedaily
- A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed - 2026-04-15 08:31
- This 31-foot “terror croc” ate dinosaurs. Now it’s back - 2026-04-15 08:23
- The surprising reason you’re so productive one day and not the next - 2026-04-15 07:44
- Scientists think alien life might be hiding in patterns - 2026-04-15 07:17
- Graphene just defied a fundamental law of physics - 2026-04-15 03:26
space.com
- SpaceX fires up next-gen 'Version 3' Starship ahead of landmark May test flight (photos) - 2026-04-15 16:00
- How do supergiant exoplanets form? James Webb Space Telescope finds a clue - 2026-04-15 15:00
- Space combat was 'critical to mission success' in US war in Iran, Space Force chief says - 2026-04-15 14:00
- The 7 best sci-fi movie soundtracks of all time - 2026-04-15 13:28
- NASA astronauts joke around with an optical illusion on the ISS | Space photo of the day for April 15, 2026 - 2026-04-15 12:06
space news
- Space Force reorg signals end of SDA as standalone agency - 2026-04-15 21:57
- Seraphim forms space advisory council - 2026-04-15 18:01
- Meink: Space Force must ‘execute’ as budget set to surge - 2026-04-15 16:50
- Defining acquisition on a wartime footing - 2026-04-15 15:45
- NASA seeks proposals for commercial TDRSS replacement - 2026-04-15 15:34
phys.org
- This drone reveals what lies beneath snow and soil - 2026-04-15 23:20
- Foxes and birds could be 'early warning system' to survey spread of antibiotic resistance into ecosystems - 2026-04-15 23:00
- From the air to the field: How nitrogen fertilizer helps feed the world—and why supply chains matter - 2026-04-15 21:40
- COVID-19 in mink farm reveals early lung damage - 2026-04-15 21:00
- Coordination gaps slow progress on Baltic Sea 'ghost gear' - 2026-04-15 20:40
onion latest
- Roblox Introduces Age-Based Accounts - 2026-04-15 15:11
- Hollywood Stars Pen Open Letter Opposing Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger - 2026-04-15 12:20
- Moonshot Their Wad - 2026-04-15 11:03
- Tanya Brown - 2026-04-15 08:00
- Wretches Welcome - 2026-04-15 08:00
changelogs
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