Here is my contribution to the web 2.0 redesign satire series.

Mentos (evidence of their brilliance) has put together a contest for Mentos Geyser videos at www.mentosgeyser.com. These videos are pretty much taking over the internet. Just do a search for Mentos on Youtube or Google Video, and you’ll see what I mean. Or take a look at my post from a little while back about that really impressive Mentos fountain. The contest doesn’t officially start until July 31st so the details are still a little sketchy, but prizes include: 1000 iTunes song downloads and a year supply of Mentos. I do wonder how much a “year’s supply” actually is. A year’s supply of Mentos for me is probably a little bit more than your average person. I tried this experiment quite a while back before there were a million and one videos of it on the internet (it also works with pixie stix). I’m going to have to think of some cool way of doing it again for this contest.

As I was looking at some videos for this post, I ran across this interview with a Mentos marketing guy regarding the recent spike in Mentos geyser videos.

Last.fm, which I blogged about a while back has launched an updated version of their site (code named Operation Depth Charge). They’ve added some cool new features and totally overhauled their player. I use Last.fm all the time (mainly for listening to internet radio at work) and love the new features. If you’ve not checked out the site yet, do it NOW. Add me as a friend (my username is scottfi). It’s a great system for discovering new music based on what you already listen to. I discover cool new artists every day.

It has an “R” instead of an “ER,” so you know it’s got to be a new Flickr tool. Preloadr is a simple photo editing tool that works hand in hand with Flickr. It’s totally web-based, and lets you do a number of simple edits and manipulations to photos you’ve uploaded to Flickr. It includes all the standard rotation, flipping, resizing and cropping tools, in addition to a number of filters and advanced features. You can also add text and titles to images.
Filters included:

• Blur
• Sharpen
• Brightness
• Contrast
• Color correction
• Graduation curve
• Auto contrast
• Grayscale
• Inverse
• Swirl
• Granulation

If you’re on a computer where there is no image manipulation software, Preloadr is a handy site to have around.

A new Mentos flavor has recently been discovered. Mentos Ambassador Moore brought me a roll of Strawberry Yogurt flavored Mentos that he found in France. It’s always nice to be presented with a flavor I’ve never heard of before. Plus it’s good for my Mentos Ambassadors working their way up the chain. You’re well on your way to Mentos Ambassador General, M.A. Moore! Your official Mentos Ambassador Card is on its way.

I can’t really say what these taste like since I only have one roll. Normally if I’ve only got one roll, I like to keep it in my Mentos archive. If I’ve got more than one I’ll usually break into the second one to see how the flavor rates. I’m sure they’re great though, since I’ve never had a Mentos wasn’t!

Back when MTV used to play actual music videos this site has 1500 videos from the 80’s. I just spent way too long digging through this site. How many of these do you remember?

This page is 9 quadrillion (yes, that’s a real number!) pixels by 9 quadrillion pixels. At 77 pixels per inch, the page is 1.844 billion miles per side…. BIG! This ginormous page was put together to show just how big the universe is.

P.S. It only displays correctly in Firefox.