The excellent Chris Glass linked to Copy Paste Character, a free tool that lets you click on any character to copy it to your keyboard.

I wish I had this tool when I worked on the foreign language companion sites at Thomson/Heinle, and often had to get an “a grave” or “e acute” at a moment’s notice.  Now that I’m using a large screen to work on, I can open up this site as a new window and keep it going whenever I need to get a character.

This seems to be a new brand of web site – no navigation or hierarchy, just a single point on the Internet that you can pull up and use as a useful tool.

The site is provided by Konst & Teknik, which have a very interesting site of their own.  I like the way their site seems more web-based than print – no primary nav (save for the bottom) and no three column layout messing up the works.  The simple “Sorted by” in the lower left is my favorite part – you have to play around with it to realize that it changes the list to match your desired sort order, but once you understand the function it’s easy to manipulate.

The whole site has that aesthetic – exploring the (pretty simple) navigation leads to hidden wonders and neat little surprises.  I didn’t even know who they were until I clicked on Contact, and found that they are a two-person agency based in Sweden.