I’d been wishing for some tool to easily create simple graphics (including text-and-graphics) for use online.  Things like flowcharts or other graphic depictions of ideas.  Maybe text boxes with bullets.  Things like this:

As you see, I found it.  Gliffy allows you many different combinations of text and graphics.  In the example above, I uploaded a jpeg (the typewriter keyboard) and dragged it into my fabulous flowchart.

Thanks (as so often the case) to Alan Levine, who described Gliffy in an engaging wiki page called I Didn’t Know You Could Do That with Free Web Tools.