thinkingwithtype.com is a great resource for type basics and also a great place to indulge in a little typographic humor.
The site is a companion to a book of the same name. The beauty of the site is that you get mostly the visual side of what would be in the book. Hooray for pictures. It lays everything out very clearly with the three catagories of letter, text and grid. They don't go into too much detail explaining everything but it serves as a great refresher or a quick introduction to typography.
Once you are done actually learning something, they have a few nerdy type games. One of my favorites is “The Personals” where you read the personal ads for different fonts and then deciede if you would like to pursue a relationship with it.
They also have a Special Characters pop-up window so you can make a double ff ligature in a jiffy!
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