2026-05-11 14:26:42
Started my rewatch of Resident Evil: Apocalypse today (I'm rewatching all the Resident Evil flicks and the Netflix show in chronological order) and got about halfway through. Apocalypse is super 2004- super early 2000s. The effects, the acting, all of it. Jill Valentine has the look, of course, but they made her so ridiculous, so over the top. And she's always smoking? 😂🤣
Amazing I missed so much early 2000s disney pop rock but it was because I was too cool.
Skye Sweetnam - Tangled Up In Me
#music
A researcher finds the average length of a wide-release theatrical film grew from about 106 minutes in the 1990s and early 2000s to 114 minutes in recent years (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mov…
Morris aims to help pals Shanahan, Lynch win SB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48705651/49ers-dc-morris-aims-help-pals-shanahan-lynch-win-super-bowl
She likes to note that learning Korean from K-pop and her mother left her with an odd, anachronistic idiom — a hodgepodge that includes both early 2000s colloquialisms and expressions that fell out of fashion in the 1970s.
It's finally Friday, but don't kick back for the weekend until you've checked out today's Metacurity for the most crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--China’s hackers hide in plain sight through hijacked home routers, allies warn,
--US charges two accused of running a major scam compound,
--White House accuses China of stealing AI property on 'industrial scale,'
--Stuxnet-like code was used in the mid-2000s,
--He…
The Midlifers I Midlife Australian Comedy And Nostalgia Podcast
We dive into 80s, 90s and 2000s nostalgia, pop culture, parenting, ageing, relationships, menopause and perimenopause, and the everyday chaos of midlife...
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Ukraine’s Mirage 2000s seen striking Russian positions with AASM Hammer bombs for the first time: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/28/ukraines-mirage-s-seen-striking.html
🗳️ Why struggling Thailand keeps voting for change that never comes
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/06/asia-pacific/politics/thailand-vote-never-change/
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Back in the 2000s, I remember having several conversations along the lines of "Could we fire all the developers and just get off-shore Indian developers to write the code cheaper?"
And here's the tech industry's greatest revolutionary inventions
1980s: personal computers
1990s: the Internet
2000s: supercomputers in your pocket
2010s: fake money
2020s: vibe palaver
* great depression (1920s/1930s, kicked off by black thursday)
* great recession (2000s/2010s, kicked off by the collapse of lehman bros)
* global depression (2020s, kicked off by the Strait of Hormuz blockade)
Anyone remember OpenNebula? Anyone have comments? I remember running it WAAAY long ago (2000s?) and now I need a replacement for VMware. (Professional, Higher Ed) Its a small (3 node) cluster under and really just ESXi hypervisor for HA. Nothing fancy. Going to look at Proxmox too.
A sophisticated jazz pianist,
Aaron Goldberg has a harmonically advanced aesthetic palette and a bent toward thoughtful modern creative improvisation.
A Harvard graduate, Goldberg initially came to prominence in the early 2000s as a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman’s band.
On his own, he has issued a handful of highly regarded trio and quartet dates, including 2006′s Worlds and 2010′s Home.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974, Goldberg started playing piano a…
Linux sleep issues are the latest “Linux audio problems” from the 2000s.
How hard is it to make sure the GPU wakes up correctly, consistently and reliably across multiple kernel versions.
This sucks!
#linux #linuxgaming
We've been watching through that show What I Like About You and it's been funny to see the Strokes, Hot Hot Heat, and Zwan mentions and posters in their rooms 😂 Ah, the early 2000s.