Links [28/05/2009]

Star Trek Stuff:
I have never been in the Star Trek multiverse before. Need to do some serious reading/ watching before going for the new movie. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(film)
http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Portal:Main

Came to Gordian Knot from the Kobayashi Maru test in Star Trek.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot

FZ 16 thread on xbhp. Was here for almost half of the day. Lots to read now that I own one.. :)
http://www.xbhp.com/talkies/motorcycle-ownership-experiences/5370-yamaha-fz-16-a.html

Google Web Elements
http://www.google.com/webelements/

Been using Adobe's Kuler for colour palettes for some time now. Found some more promising stuff today:
http://www.colorotate.org/
http://www.colorblender.com/browse.asp

File sharing through twitter:
http://www.filetwt.com/

Feynman!

Richard Feynman on 'The Pleasure of Finding Things Out'

The video brought back so many fond memories. The school days, especially the one summer that i spend chasing the works and biographies of this genius... The days with the book 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman'... The admiration for this 'eccentric' yet wonderful human being of 'free spirit'...

Somehow I ended up reading about him last week.. a number of firefox tabs were kept open for days... Was reading about stuff like 'Feynman Point', 'Feynman Sprinkler', 'One-electron universe'...

Then tried to find the lectures videos but ended up watching this :