Further proof that nothing ever dies on the Net: yesterday it became public knowledge that Microsoft had removed its core Web fonts from its site. Conspiracy theories were quickly silenced by when typographica asked a simple question. Nevertheless, the core fonts were re-discovered, safely stored by the Internet Archive. I like that these digital packages have both the qualities of both a physical object a transient idea.

Went to pay some bills online last night, and stumbled across a potentially cool new feature: four of the big banks are letting people email money to each other.

If it works, this could be a big step forward for digital money, and could hurt Pay Pal’s attempts to gain a foothold here. The whole thing is much easier than Pay Pal, too:

1. create a unique question only the recipient would know the answer to
2. email the person the amount of money

You can even monitor or cancel the transaction via your online bank account (the Bank of Montreal offers a tour of its service).

I’d be interested to try this out and to hear from those that have…