LAIKA is a new, dynamic type­face, designed and con­structed by Nicolas Kunz and Michael Flückiger. The genius here is that visual ele­ments of the face (such as weight, serif promi­nence, and italic degree) are reframed as para­me­ters, into which can be fed val­ues from any source — either your own key­board, or some­thing more inter­est­ing like weight or dis­tance sen­sors, so the visual typo­graphic form can respond to phys­i­cal fac­tors in an instal­la­tion envi­ron­ment. Try it out!

Remember when AOL leaked 650,000 of its users’ search queries? For the first time, we got to see what real peo­ple search for on the web.

Now, thanks to Search Suggestion tech­nol­ogy by Google, Yahoo, and oth­ers, you don’t have to wait for a cor­po­rate screw-up to expose search queries — you can do it your­self! Just type a few let­ters, and watch the most pop­u­lar searches appear on top.