I found this hilarious link this morning on the SXSW site in the humor/satire section: Behind the Typeface.
Have you ever seen a pile of text somewhere and couldn’t identify the font? Do you look at signage, TV commercials or cereal boxes and consider how you would have designed it differently? You should try identifont. It’s a stepped-question site which attempts to identify a font based on a series of questions about the letterforms you can see. (e.g. “Does the G have a downward-pointing spur?”)If you don’t remember what some of the letterforms are, it allows for that, but it might take you longer to find your font. Its companion site, fontscape, has organized faces into categories so that you can easily find a particular look, and provides links to the font houses that sell them.
Craptacular. Jen sent this link in reply to my bitching about the Addy information yesterday. You might as well not even go there, because it sucks.