June 07, 2006

• wow. this is several kinds of fantastic. thanks eeq. and thank goodness someone is finding time to do this sort of basic research.
• This is kinda old and all over youtube
• We always used Bottlecaps, but we weren't scientific or nuthin'. Just making a mess in the school hallway.
• i wasted so much money on smaller scale version of this in elementary.
• This is sweet.
• This is sticky.
• Those dancing waters are quite majestic. They bear our high school cafeteria experiments with glasses of diet coke and salt. Or maybe it was sugar? It's been a few years and ye olde memory is fading. I seem to recall we were fond of the dancing rasin trick as well. Drop some raisins in sprite and watch them rise and fall with the bubbles.
• why does it have to be DIET coke? is it the artificial sweetener? would this work as well with Splenda?
• I've seen the experiment before, but nothing this grand. Awesome!
• Whoa. I know it's an old concept, and it calls itself "hysterical and spectacular," but... that was really cool.
• the fact that they imitated the bellagio fountain makes it much cooler than it would be otherwise. I love pretention in silly packaging!
• Oh man, typo! I meant to say that they beat our little cafeteria experiments.
• Fantastic! I'm out of the loop and therefore missed it being "all over YouTube". Thanks x ∞, eeq!
• Yes, we've seen this sort of thing before, yes, many of us have done this before, but with such unabashed joy and showmanship? I saw this is Reason # 548 Why the Internet is a Wonderful Thing.
• It really is pretty, isn't it? (I bet those guys got sticky-sticky, but it's worth it!)
• "They bear our high school cafeteria experiments with glasses of diet coke and salt. Or maybe it was sugar?" Salt. An old trick to revitalize flat beer without changing the taste. Used to be done back in the days of Ontario's beer parlours, when you couldn't walk around with beer, but had to be seated at a table, and order food at the same time. People would order huge amounts of beer when they made the food order, so they wouldn't have to get more food later. Beer'd go flat, salt shaker'd come out, voila.
• This is way, way too much fun, really made my day. Thanks, es el Queso! BearGuy said it best.
• NPR's All Things Considered did a story about this back in April.
• Today's Wall Street Journal had an article on this partickler video. Mentos loves the free publicity, and is considering hiring these guys. But the Coca-Cola company's response? Flat.
• Ow!
• The Big Kahuna (Google video)
• 500 people do it with pics!