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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.
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.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
... is how long until the goatse ascii image tunrs up?
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
that is a hack. Absolutely without a worthwhile purpose, an intellectual exercise that has taken something designed for one thing and perverted it for another purpose entirely. Five stars!
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is there gonna be somehting like alt.images.ascii.google on the near horizon??
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Well, since the google admins even let you see all the interface messages in Klingon or Elmer Fudd if you like, they might just love the idea... :-)
I think aalib get's my reward for geekiest thing ever. I mean, it took ascii art, which is in itself pretty geeky, and single-handedly made it completely obsolete. You can render anything with aalib, your pr0n included, and it comes out as beautiful ascii art. What more could you ask for?
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IMO, the best thing from the BBS days was the top-notch ANSI art -- the stuff that took baseline ASCII and added ANSI color and extended characters to make some really cool stuff. Some of those guys could create some amazing images (anyone remember iCE, ACiD, and all those groups?). Actually, iCE is still around and cranking out some top-quality ANSI -- www.ice.org. Check 'em out, pretty impressive.
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!!
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that do not.
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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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"Remember ascii art? It's still there, and Google is helping them out."
Remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!
I've come for the woman, and your head.
Looks like his site is Slashdotted. However, since the art is all based on google groups, it's still a long way from slashdotted. :)
Here's what he's come up with:
Bart
Lincoln
Spam
Stupid like a fox!
With all these Google stories in the past couple of months, isn't it about time we had a "Google" topic category? (yeah, it's OT, deal with it) :)
I dunno, seems to make sense to me. (heck, we have a Mac OS 9 category that's had what... three stories?)
I even made the icons:
Google Topic Icon
Sample Screenshot
It might be a bit small, but you get the idea
Not that I don't appreciate ASCII/ANSI art... in fact, I do appreciate it. However, this stuff sucks. Compare to this guy's ASCII interpretations of Disney characters. While the novelty of Google highlighting the letters in cute, it's not very eye catching, IMO. Bring back the BBS art scene! Bring back ANSI art!