43f Links for 2008-06-01

• Best. Paper. Ever. - Miss Conduct’s Blog - Advice column with manners and etiquette information - Boston.com - “Thus, when we conclude someone is ‘simply a bastard,’ we feel both relief (because we have finally hit on a way of interpreting their behavior that makes sense) and guilt (because we feel we ought to have done better).”
• Research Brief: Minorities Dominate Use of New Media - “According to the analysis, minorities have a higher regular usage of new media than Whites across all media types. They are more likely to use iPods, text on cell phones, play video games, use video/picture phones, instant messaging online and watch video on cell phones.”
• The Web Developer’s SEO Cheat Sheet - Very handy printable guide with white-hat advice and best practices for pleasing Google without spreading unnecessary cheese. - [via Global Nerdy]
• Research Brief: Online Video Viewing Surges - In March, “84.8 million viewers watched 4.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (50.4 videos per viewer).” Damn. Could you ever have imagined this, even 5 years ago?
• Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam - New York Times - Related: “Last year, by one estimate, the video site YouTube, owned by Google, consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000.”
• XBMC For Mac: XBMC Turns Your Mac into the Ultimate Media Center - Wowzers! Nice work, Gina. This looks like a go-to solution for using OSXBMC to turn a Mac Mini into a pain-free media center.
• Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system - Oh, sweet fancy Moses: here are some inexplicably undocumented key commands that will so improve yr Kindle world. Kiss me, ragged-right justification! (BTW: ♥ my new Kindle, and am collecting my favorite time- and money-saving tips for a future post)
• 8 fonts you probably don’t use in css, but should - Personally, I’m not so big on Copperplate or Impact, but I’m a fool for Gill Sans. Nobody asked me, but I’d also add Mac-friendly faves Hoefler Text, Futura, and American Typewriter. [via anarchaia]
• We’re sorry this is late; we really meant to post it sooner - “Most people’s New Year’s resolutions are doomed to failure…Most self-help books have it completely wrong when they say perfectionism is at the root of procrastination…Procrastination can be explained by a single mathematical equation” In keeping with my return to posting here, yes: that’s meta-research on procrastination. Swish.

And, in passing, a personal note: many thanks to you for your patience while I took some time to see to other projects; my more normal (which is to say, irregular, by most “pro blog” standards) habit of posting to 43f when I have something to share or say restarts now. I’m grateful for your hanging with me.