Game-rule of getting your email inbox down to 0 items, because you delete, archive, file everything promptly.

I don't aim for Inbox Zero or a completed To-do List, or an estimated Development Queue. I prioritize, I get done what I can.

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Google To-do list and NoteTaking app. For android and then available as webapp.

Habbo (formerly known as Habbo Hotel) is an online community aimed at teens and young adults.[1] Habbo is owned and operated by Sulake, a Finnish company. Founded in 2000, Habbo has expanded to nine online communities (or "hotels"), with users from more than 150 countries. Since August 2012, more than 273 million avatars have been registered with an average of 5 million unique visitors per month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbo

VRChat is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online virtual reality social platform created by Graham Gaylor and Jesse Joudrey. It allows players to interact with others as 3D character models. The game was released for Microsoft Windows as a standalone application compatible with the Oculus DK1 development kit on January 16, 2014, and via Steam's early access program on February 1, 2017. It supports the Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest, and the newly added Oculus Quest 2 via the Oculus Store, the HTC Vive series, Windows Mixed Reality headsets and the Valve Index through SteamVR. Notably, it also supports full-body humanoid avatar tracking via Vive Trackers, though none of these accessories are mandatory to play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRChat

Second Life developer Linden Lab has been acquired by an investment group led by Randy Waterfield and Brad Oberwager. (more)

A Proof-of-Stake chain utilizing secure JavaScript smart contracts to rapidly build and deploy DeFi... Mark Miller, Dean Tribble... Bill Tulloh was a market manager at smart contract pioneer AMiX. https://agoric.com (more)

Jared Pereira: Tools and Schools. This feels like an especially vital time to be working on tools for thought, with projects like roam and quantum.country out there. (more)

Audio synthesis software (Musical Instrument?) http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ (more)

The phone variety of Spam Wars - unsolicited, spoofed-caller, robo-calls (NoMoRoBo), etc. (more)

(see SpamWars)

The opposite, in nature, to BigCo. (more)

Long COVID, also known as post-COVID-19 syndrome, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), chronic COVID syndrome (CCS) and long-haul COVID,[1][2][3] is a condition characterized by long-term sequelae—appearing or persisting after the typical convalescence period—of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Long COVID can affect nearly every organ system with sequelae including respiratory system disorders, nervous system and neurocognitive disorders, mental health disorders, metabolic disorders, cardiovascular disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, malaise, fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and anemia.[4] A wide range of symptoms are commonly discussed, including fatigue, headaches, shortness of breath, anosmia (loss of smell), parosmia (distorted smell), muscle weakness, low fever and cognitive dysfunction.[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 4/29: Vaccination Slowdown. Compared to expectations, excluding inevitable self-inflicted cratering of our vaccination rate, this was mostly a best realistic case scenario week. Johnson & Johnson was unpaused. (more)

Worried About Breakthrough COVID-19 Cases? Here's What To Know. the current crop of vaccine breakthrough cases doesn't surprise or alarm public health experts. "I haven't seen any signals in the U.S. indicating that they are occurring at the levels that would give us concern that the [vaccine] effectiveness is going down," said Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health. (more)

Ron Jeffries: Windmills: Can Scrum be fixed? I’ve been trying, so far without success, to get useful attention from the Scrum Alliance. (more)

enjoyable techno-thriller by Bruce Sterling ISBN:0-345-46061-8.... Fresh-perspective having read it multiple times over a couple years: I used to think of him as a Hero Warrior type, but now he smells a bit more like some who became unhinged by the World Trade Center attack, like Dennis Miller and Christopher Hitchens. Then again, maybe he's just channeling that for the sake of this book.* (more)

Animal Crossing[a] is a social simulation (cf TheSims) video game series developed and published by Nintendo and created by Katsuya Eguchi and Hisashi Nogami.[1][2][3][4][5] In Animal Crossing, the player character is a human who lives in a village inhabited by various anthropomorphic animals, carrying out various activities such as fishing, bug catching, and fossil hunting. The series is notable for its open-ended gameplay and extensive use of the video game console's internal clock and calendar to simulate real passage of time. Since its initial release in 2001, five Animal Crossing games have been released worldwide, one each for the Nintendo 64/iQue Player (enhanced and reissued for the GameCube), Nintendo DS, Wii, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Switch.[6] The series has been both critically and commercially successful and has sold over 60 million units worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crossing

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney reveals a more connected, 'Fortnite’-driven, game-unified world. Epic’s key promise is that its Unreal Engine 5, due in early 2021, will essentially render cinematic-quality, CGI-like effects in real time, complete with realistic lighting that had previously been more hardware-driven. (more)