Super Size Me was on TV last night and got round to watching it eventually. It was directed, written and stared Morgan Spurlock. I had heard from someone it would put you off McDonalds. I wasnt going to watch it but found it really interesting. It wasn’t just about McDonalds but fast food in general.

Since getting healthy and going to gym etc, the last time i had McDonalds was around Xmas and that was only a cheesburger. Cant remember the time before that. While watching it I found myself really wanting some fries. Just writing this now I really want some fries now!!! I really feel like some chicken nuggets too even after hearing how they are made.

It was shocking that guy who drank so much sugary drink he almost went blind! Admittedly he drank gallons of the stuff and was huge but still!!! Also there was a guy who ate all loads of Big Macs (2-3 a day, 19000+ in total). He didnt seem that big – he did say he hardly ever had fries though so maybe thats a factor. It was very sad though that he proposed to his wife in the McDonalds car park in his favourite car park place.

Overall Super Size Me was very entertaining. There was also abit in the film which may have inspired Jamie Olivers dinners when he went to some school and found out what they ate. Morgan Spurlock himself was a pretty funny guy so that made it more entertaining.

Update:

There seems to be another side to the story if you read the links below. Personally I think, although the experiment was to the extreme, it did highlight how bad millions of peoples diets are and how unhealthy it can be.

Check out some more on the links below:

http://www.cei.org/pages/debunk/debunk_the_junk.cfm
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/012211.php
http://www.techcentralstation.com/052704G.html

I got bored of the desktop on my laptop again and decided to change it. I could have just gone looking for a wallpaper of someone but decided to design one of my own. I could have picked any beautiful women to have on it but I choose Rachel Bilson (who plays Summer in The O.C.).

I posted about it on the forum Neowin and a lot of people seemed to like it. You can see this on My Desktop page. (Its dated 24th April 2005). If you want it you I guess I could send it to you.

Related links:

Neowin Forums
Rachel Bilson web site
Rachel Bilson Fan web site

As I mentioned a few days ago Chris Moyles and his team from Radio 1 presented Top of the Pops last Friday. Everyone did well although Comedy Dave did look really nervous. Aled’s teeth seemed to get whiter and whiter as the show went on and Aled did the walking on the treadmill like the music video with Peter Kay.

There are some pictures on the Chris Moyles web site on the Radio 1 web site.

The PFA Player of the year were announced at the weekend.

John Terry won the main award. The other nominations were fellow Chelsea players Frank Lampard and Petr Cech. Thierry Henry, Steven Gerrard and Andrew Johnson were also in the running. I think Frank Lampard should have won but Terry has been brilliant.

The winner of the young player of the year was won by Wayne Rooney. He has been fantastic for us since he joined from Everton and has at some times seemed like the only player who seems to want to play for United. Jermain Defoe, Arjen Robben, Cristiano Ronaldo, Stewart Downing and Shaun Wright-Phillips were also nominated.

The team of the year was also announced – most of them were pretty predictable but not sure about 1 or 2 of them. The team announced was:

Cech

Gaz Terry Rio Cole

SWP Gerrard Lampard Robben

Henry Johnson

Personally I would of had Rooney instead of Johnson (he won the young player of the year award so what does he have to do!!). I would of had Heinze instead of Cole – maybe I am being biased since I don’t really like Cole!!!!

United beat Newcastle for the second time in 8 days. I only saw the highlights so can’t really say if they played really well or not apart from what I have read online. All I have to say about it is that Rooneys goal was fantastic and a contender for goal of the season. It was a 30 yard volley from the left of the box which was hit with the outside of his foot.

Related links:

BBC News – Sport
Redcafe

Google recently released the service called Google Maps UK. Unfortunately it was only for the US. Its similar to many sites like multimap but it allows you to drag the map which works very smoothly. It is also great if for example you want to find the nearest pizza place. It points it all on the map very straight forward. As well as using it as a map and finding out were various things are – the ‘route planning’ is great. Its brilliant also when used in combination with Google Local UK

Its brilliant – highly recommend using it.

Google Maps UK
Google Local UK

Chris Moyles and the rest of his team (Dave, Aled, Rachel and Dom) will be presenting TOTP tonight. Should be worth watching!!

More info:

TOTP
BBC Radio 1 – Chris Moyles
Chrismoyles.net

Ever wondered what its like inside Pixar – they are the people behind such films as The Incredibles and Toy Story.

It must be cool to work there!!

http://www.aintitcoolnews.com/display.cgi?id=19658#1

Ever wanted to have a background image and have your website/personal/company logo on the top?? I am sure loads of people have. What if you wanted to change just the background using CSS. Heres a way of doing it.

http://www.chapnickman.com/2005/03/18/png-headers/

Its that time of the year again – the results are out for the 100 Sexiest women in the world released by the FHM magazine. I personally am not sure about some of the women in the list. You can view the complete list here.

Here is the top 10:

1. Kelly Brook – she is pretty but I don’t think the sexiest women in the world
2. Cheryl Tweedy – totally agree – very sexy
3. Angelina Jolie – never really seen it myself – very pretty though
4. Michelle Ryan – not sexy at all
5. Elisha Cuthbert – she is very pretty but not top 10 material
6. Britney Spears – shes OK I guess, problem is now shes like an American chav
7. Abi Titmuss – shes very pretty
8. Sarah Harding – sexy and from the Manchester area
9. Beyonce Knowles – pretty but I must be the only man in the world who doesn’t find her that sexy
10. Charlotte Church – not sure why she is in the list

Some people I think who should of been higher and maybe in the top 10 are Rachel Stevens (13th), Keira Knightley (18th), Louise Redknapp (21st), Sarah Michelle Geller (51st) and Rachel Bilson(Summer from The OC) (99th).

My personal list would be something like: (theres 11 but I dont care!)

Rachel Stevens
Nikki Sanderson
Louise Redknapp
Keira Knightley
Jessica Alba
Sarah M Gellar
Jennifer Aniston
Dannii Minogue
Cheryl Tweedy
Charisma Carpenter (for some reason not on the top 100 list)
Tiffani Thiessen

Not sure how Nicola from Girls Aloud ( 77th) got in the list – she always looks so miserable!!

More info:

FHM
BBC News