If you drop Mentos Mints in Diet Coke, it geysers. I mean, it seriously geysers…

What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It’s amazing and completely insane.

The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes.

It’s a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas, brought to you by the mad scientists at EepyBird.com.

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The way Americans like their war by Robert Fisk

I remember clearly the first suspicions I had that murder most foul might be taking place in our name in Iraq. I was in the Baghdad mortuary, counting corpses, when one of the city’s senior medical officials, an old friend, told me of his fears. “Everyone brings bodies here,” he said. “But when the Americans bring bodies in, we are instructed that under no circumstances are we ever to do post-mortems.”

For who can be held to account when we regard ourselves as the brightest, the most honorable of creatures, doing endless battle with the killers of Sept. 11 or July 7 because we love our country and our people — but not other people — so much. And so we dress ourselves up as Galahads, yes as Crusaders, and we tell those whose countries we invade that we are going to bring them democracy. I can’t help wondering today how many of the innocents slaughtered in Haditha took the opportunity to vote in the Iraqi elections — before their “liberators” murdered them.

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Chef Giuseppe Dossi, formerly of Il Fornaio in Manhattan Beach CA and Prego in Beverly Hills CA is committed to great food made with passion.

To the extent possible, we serve organic products in an earth-friendly facility. We wish you buon apetito.

Cafe Carolina, is a small, friendly restaurant specializing in northern Italian cuisine, with lots of family recipes, a constantly changing menu, and wondrously good food.

Try the Ravioli Cremaschi, an “authentic regional raviola stuffed with a sweet filling of amaretti, raisins, citron and parmesan cheese, served in a sage-rosemary brown butter sauce.” Yum, and not a dish you’ll find elsewhere.

Every so often they have a “feast.” Last time, it was on St. Anthony’s birthday and was a seven course vegetarian dinner like might have been served the 16 century in Italy, and a memorable meal it was.

The atmosphere is warm. Isabella waits the tables while Giusseppe is in the kitchen. Yes, it’s just him doing the cooking. A renowned chef prepares amazing food in an atmosphere akin to having dinner with good friends.

17934 Ventura Blvd., Encino CA
818.881.8600
$20-25 per person. (No alcohol BYOW. No corkage.)

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