Currently I try to do some front end designing and am messing around with fonts. These two sites are very helpful:
The first describes the techniques currently available for embedding fonts (so you get a 1:1 image of any font you want on any browser)
http://thinkclay.com/technology/cufon-sifr-flir
The second describes which fonts are browser safe and has example screen prints of these fonts being used in different browser on different platforms:
