I've been reading a book on typography called "thinking with type", and one of the recommended exercises is to present a word using a design that expresses the word's meaning. I chose "collapsed", after a good run had drained me.

This technique visualizes the meaning of a word in addition to calling it by name.

I've been brushing up on calculus with Gilbert Strang's excellent book, and when I got to a part about binomial expansion I decided to do some sort of visualization of Pascal's Triangle. I didn't have much success visualizing the whole thing, so I threw together an applet in Processing that lets you see a subset of the triangle at a time.

This article is about what I call "live search boxes". They're the text boxes that perform some sort of search while you type.  Google Suggest and iTunes both have them. But I have a problem with how they work, and I've got a solution too.