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Homer Simpson Drawn With Web 2.0-Style ASCII Art

Posted by timothy on from the should-be-an-online-convertor-for-this dept.

boogi78 writes "Remember ASCII art? This is the Web 2.0 CSS version of ASCII art featuring Homer Simpson. Here is a CSS G.W. Bush. There's also an program that automatically converts jpegs into 'CSS images,' but it's a Windows executable. I found no sources for it, but I got it to work with WINE."

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  1. Re:Seen this long ago for Mac OS X by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Sameish idea: DeImg from The Daily Grind Network. AKA how to turn a 30k image into a 6 meg browser killing table.
  2. But can I block it? by DJ+Manning · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I fear that our advertising overlords will use this to display advertising that I'd otherwise block. The next step in fighting advertising on the web? Block all ASCII charaters from being displayed!!! That'll fix those advertisers.