“sIFR lets you use your favorite font on your websites by cleverly working with Flash, JavaScript and CSS.” I haven’t tried this technique yet, but I’m anxious to see if it works. I’m a little tired of Arial…
For details see: http://wiki.novemberborn.net/sifr/
It is an interesting idea. To me, what’s striking is not its cleverness (it is very creative), but how much friction there still is in the ways we have to express our ideas on the web still.
You have to ask, now that the internet is 20 years old, why should being able to choose any font you want still news worthy? It feels like technology is still somewhat of a hinderance.