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Google Art Creator

Li0nHeart writes: "Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out. Because Google colorizes search-terms you can make very interesting ascii art in the groups." Here is a website dedicated to creating this art and some examples.

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  1. In nead of gainful employment. by Forge · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whoever created this site is in serius need of a real job or a demanding girlfriend.

    Some people just have way too much time on their hands.

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    1. Re:In nead of gainful employment. by *xpenguin* · · Score: 4, Funny

      Whoever poasted the parent coment is in serius need of a spall cheqar.

    2. Re:In nead of gainful employment. by Lars+T. · · Score: 5, Funny

      Whoever created this site is in serious need of a Google Cache ;-)

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    3. Re:In nead of gainful employment. by bilbobuggins · · Score: 2, Funny

      don't you mean 'demanding job' or 'real girlfriend'?

  2. what i want to know..... by jeffy124 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... is how long until the goatse ascii image tunrs up?

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  3. Reminds me of... by wirelessbuzzers · · Score: 2, Funny
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    I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
  4. Profit! by ender1598 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Step 1: Make a cool site that gives people the capability to create ASCII pictures easily distributed worldwide through Usenet and visible with the Google toolbar.
    Step 2: Submit to the hordes at Slashdot.
    Step 3: .....
    Step 4: Profit!!

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    1. Re:Profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Step 1: Re-tell tired joke
      Step 2: ???
      Step 3: Karma whore!

  5. Ha. Kids have it so easy today. by acceleriter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Back in my day, we had punch cards. We could use the 029 to make pictures with the holes. If by some rare good fortune we had access to the printer, we didn't have any ASCII art. We had EBCDIC art. And liked it.

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  6. Heh. by Mornelithe · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out."

    Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

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  7. Re:With all these Google stories... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "It might be a bit small, but you get the idea :) "

    It must be pretty rough telling that to your girlfriend.

  8. Poor server by brandonsr · · Score: 2, Funny

    You know, slashdot must be the only site on the internet that can bring down a server who's largest source of graphics comes in ASCII form.

  9. Re:The google geeks will love it... :-) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you look through the preferences, they also have other joke languages such as "pig latin", "bork, bork, bork!" and "Welsh"

  10. How about by johnty · · Score: 2, Funny

    art using graphs on statistics of sites which get /.ed?

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