{"id":155,"date":"2008-09-16T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2008-09-14T22:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T02:29:00","slug":"an-army-of-slinkies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/16\/an-army-of-slinkies\/","title":{"rendered":"An Army of Slinkies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These guys are brilliant!\u00a0 They got famous for their Diet Coke\/Mentos experiment, and now they are back with a new project.\u00a0 Nicely done!\u00a0 I think this will become the sleeper hit of every office in America!\u00a0 My thanks to lessthan12parsecs for posting this to <a title=\"The Unique Geek\" href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/theuniquegeek\">THE UNIQUE GEEK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><code><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1700732&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1700732?pg=embed&amp;sec=1700732\">EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user737605?pg=embed&amp;sec=1700732\">Eepybird<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com?pg=embed&amp;sec=1700732\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can&#8217;t view the embedded video, <a title=\"Army of Slinkies\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5048554\/280951-post+its-create-spectacular-army-of-slinkies\" class=\"broken_link\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the Diet Coke\/Mentos experiment, if you missed it somehow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" 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