Consumable Performance Art *lol*

I posted this on my 360 page a few days ago...

If you have Yahoo as your home page, you’ve already seen this. But for everyone else, and for those of you who were too busy to click, let me bring this to your attention. It’s hilarious!

Do you fellow late gen-X/early gen-Y’ers remember the Pop Rocks/Pepsi scare (I really shouldn’t have to remind anyone that this was a hoax/urban legend, and Mikey is alive and well)? Well now, enter “pop-goes-the-geyser,“ part two…

“June 7, 2006

More than 100 2-liter bottles of Diet Coke. More than 500 Mentos. And two men in goggles and lab coats. You can imagine that this portends a fateful—and combustible—encounter. But perhaps you can't imagine just how combustible, nor how stylishly orchestrated. EepyBird compares the results to a 'mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas.' A Blue Man Group-hijacking of Old Faithful comes to mind too, though certainly the Bellagio corners the market on geyser choreography—until EepyBird, that is. After you ogle the video, take in some of the earlier experiments, such as the one that 'didn't go quite according to plan' or the one that, gulp, 'seemed like a good idea.' If you find yourself wondering about the health repercussions of swigging a Diet Coke while mouthing a Mentos, EepyBird offers some reassuring science behind the explosively fresh soda/candy relationship.”

I’d start here: http://picks.yahoo.com/picks/i/20060607.html

To go straight to the video, go here (but I‘d recommend reading just a tad about it first): http://www.eepybird.com/dcm1.html

One writer’s comments on the Coke company‘s response to all of this - short, worth reading: “Coke Is An Idiot” http://news.yahoo.com/s/fool/20060612/bs_fool_fool/115014124318

A few simple words on surface tension and nucleation sites (the science of it all, y’all!): http://www.eepybird.com

And incidentally, one of my personal favorites from the food & humor category, lol: http://www.tomatoesareevil.com