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An addendum to my post from earlier today:

I don't think the link I posted has links back to these movies - which is a shame, really. Besides making them race around in the microwave, you can generate plasma pulses from grapes.

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/topanatomyedited.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/grapeout.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/15burstedited2.mov
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~maarten/movie/topburstedited.mov

All courtesy of this site (which is also kind enough to include instructions on how to replicate the experiment).

http://home.earthlink.net/~marutgers/fun/microwave/microwave.html