NiallOK’s Blog

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Well spotted, Ruiari… - saw it myself while buying troosers in Dunnes - will “Chiggy” disappear off the radar now? We can only hope…

The American Pie Neighbourhood - an area of Long Beach, California where the houses were used for the filming of “American Pie,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” “Red Dragon,” “Donnie Darko” and “Not A Teen Movie”. I like how it warns:

[ Warning: These are private homes. Do not trespass on their property,
knock on their doors, or otherwise disturb the residents' privacy. ]

Hah.

Here’s a handy way to make an announcement, link to a good cause, or just generally get a link noticed - QuickRibbon does all the work for you.

Back to the movies… NotStarring.com gives a list of movie stars and the roles they didn’t get. Brad Pitt in Shawshank, anyone? Sean Connery as Gandalf in the LOTR Trilogy??? Or how about O.J. Simpson turning down the role of The Terminator because he thought people couldn’t take him seriously as a killer… !

Mike Swanson would like to give us all some free nature based desktop wallpaper. Thanks, Mike!

Missed last Sunday’s Top Gear? Me too… not to worry, Donncha’s posted up the best bits here!

Finally… Essential software. Everyone’s got their lists. I mentioned DownloadSquad’s list in the last Crunchy Links, this time I mention C|Net’s. They’re giving thanks with their list of Top 9 Windows Utilities (also available in slideshow format) - and the bonus is, each one in the list is free.