I missed quite a few Aperiodical posts while I was on Twitter Holiday and have not been keeping as up to date with it as I’d like, so I thought I’d just go through it and jot down interesting items and notes (almost as I’d tweet them). As I’m a mathematical layperson, what are below are the “sexy” and understandable posts. No hard-core here…

• The Aperiodical is half! – WOW! I just realised I’ve been with them all along… Cool – first time I’ve been in on something since the very beginning :-)
• Starburst by Tim Locke – nice real-world metal mathematical work
• Walking on π in the NSF Visualization Challenge – a picturesque picture of pi perhaps? Check out the GigaPan link at the bottom for a zoomin experience
• Factor Conga – very clever piece of JavaScript
• Math/Maths 118: An 11.5 microhertz Domputer – yes, you guessed right – a computer built from dominos!!!
• Women in Wikipedia Edit-a-thon – with particular reference to Ada Lovelace, the first programmer! You wouldn’t of thought with all that pathetic brogramming going on…
• Advances in pure nonsense – it’s not just mathematics, but the whole “peer review” and journal system that’s broken. Shown up again by a program! ;-)
• The Calculus of Love, a short film – I like maths, I like films, so this is obviously GREAT!
• Cardboard SKI calculus – So if you like Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus (and hey, who doesn’t!?), you’ll love this!
• Henry Segerman’s 30-cell puzzle – A great “little” puzzle – literally!
• Zero Waste by Nick Sayers – Amazing mathematical sculpture made from garbage bags