From the same guys who put together the first “Awesome Mentos Fountain,” comes another one. This one uses a domino effect involving 251 bottles of Diet Coke and 1506 Mentos all tied together to create a really cool fountain chain of fizzy Mentos goodness.

Get it while it’s hot! Firefox 2.0 has just hit the net. They’ve added a nice list of new features. Most notable are the visual refresh (cleaned up the buttons) and the tabbed browsing improvements. My favorite new feature is the new inline spell check, that checks any text you enter into a form for spelling mistakes (i dunt spull gud). If you use Firefox (and why wouldn’t you?) this is definitely worth the update. Get your download now!

Moo! isn’t just what a cow says, it’s a nice little printing solution hooked into Flickr. For a limited time, they had an offer for Flickr pro members to receive 10 free MiniCards, which I quickly jumped on. Well, my MiniCards showed up yesterday and they’re kinda neat. They’re about the size of a stick of gum and are pretty decent photo quality. The small size meant I had to crop down the photos, but on some of them the skinny cropping gave it a nice effect. I was also able to put several lines of text on the back (I added my site URL) along with my flickr icon (a roll of Mentos).

The process of sending photos to Moo is pretty straight-forward. They’ve got a great interface similar to the Flickr Organizr to just drag and drop photo choices to Moo. You can then crop them and add text to the back before handing over your credit card numbers to make the final payment, which is normally $19.99 for 100 cards. I really like how they turned out and would love to have 100 cards to do whatever I want with, I just don’t know if I’ve got enough unique photos in Flickr to make 100 cards. So if you’ve got twenty bucks sitting around and a full Flickr account, give Moo a try.

I recently received a new shipment of Japanese Mentos from newly badged (no I don’t have any badges) Mentos Ambassador Roth. Within this shipment were a few new flavors I’ve never seen before and (as of this writing) never tasted before. Grape, Strawberry and Mint are available in the U.S., though these wrappers are brighter. The new flavors include Apple, which I think is different than the U.S. Sour Apple. Citrus Mango, which is the roll I’m really looking forward to tasting. The last flavor, Juicy Cassis, is the most unique in this package. I have two of each flavor in this package, so that means I get to try one of them, with the 2nd going into the archive. Also, rumor has it, Mentos Ambassador Roth will be returning to Japan and could probably pick up a few more rolls if a certain flavor turns out to be delicious.

Google has had a mobile version of its Google Maps out for a good while now. But for some reason, it wouldn’t work on a Palm device, or more specifically, the Treo 650, which is what I own. Well, today they released a Treo version of their mobile Google Maps, and it works great! I’m excited to finally be able to pull up detailed maps, directions and to be able to search for nearby locations all on my phone.

Since I’m currently in the process of planning a wedding, I’m constantly looking for for technology that will make that job easier. For instance, we’re using a Wiki (that I loving call our WedWiki) to keep track of wedding information (links to decorations, food, tux/dress, to-do lists, etc). Last month I stumbled across a nice little web app called SimpleSeating.com that I thought would be very helpful when we get to the daunting task of creating a reception seating chart.

What is SimpleSeating.com?

• SimpleSeating.com is the fastest and easiest way to make seating charts online.
• SimpleSeating.com brings the power of expensive desktop seating chart applications to the web minus the learning curve.
• With SimpleSeating.com you’ll be able to create, preview, and print your seating charts in just a few simple steps.

Well, I signed up for the beta account and jumped right in. For the most part, this little web app is pretty slick. It does everything they claim it does, and makes putting together a seating chart as easy as dragging and dropping. I’ll preface this review with the fact that this is beta software and there is room to grow. They’ve put together a blog listing future features and bug fixes as they happen. It looks like they’re really dedicated to making a great product and taking suggestions seriously. Many of the items I suggested have made their “coming soon” list. I’m really excited to watch this app work its way to a solid version 1 release.

You start out by creating an event, giving it a name/descriptions and selecting the number of guests for your event. From my trials, smaller events seem work a little better than larger events mainly because of space constraints on your banquet room layout. I started with a 200 person event (wedding?) and laying out the tables into a “room” was a bit cramped (though they did all fit).

Once you’ve placed your event tables (and there are a lot of table sizes to chose from), it’s time to start adding guests to the event. The interface for adding guests provides individual guests and also guest grouping options. Right now you can only add guests one at a time, but they say they’ll be coming out with some sort of bulk add in the near future, which I’m looking forward to (don’t really want to type 200+ names). There is also another nice guest feature where you can chose if a guest has RSVP’s yet or not and also a select a meal choice. The RSVP option changes the color of a guest’s icon on the seating chart so you can visually tell if they’re going to be there or not and move people around accordingly.

Now that you’ve got a room/table layout and some guests, it’s time too place them into their seats. This is the easiest part of the process. All you need to do is drag and drop little (RSVP color coded) people icons to the chairs around a table. If you’ve grouped someone, or created a party of say 3 people, it places all three little people icons when you drag that group/party to a table which is nice when you need to keep families or couples together.

Once you’ve created your seating chart, you are then able to print it out. I’m not sure how this works yet since they’re still working some bugs out of that portion. I’m hoping that there are a good number of print options to provide documentation for a banquet hall’s layout and seating.

All in all, this is a great little app, and I’m really excited to see it progress. Even with it still being beta software, I’ll be using it to create a seating chart for my wedding. According to their site, they’re planning a release in “October-ish.” I look forward to see where it will go between now and then.

Check out this list of the top 10 Weird Al Yankovic videos of all time. I especially like his latest (#2 on the list) White and Nerdy… not that I can relate or anything. I’m a geek, not a nerd!