Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Terminally fun Friday
The first ‘tip’ is one man’s amazingly intricate tribute to Star Wars Episode IV – A New Hope…done completely in animated ASCII text in your Terminal window. Simon Jansen has been working on this, bit by bit, since July of 1997. The movie isn’t complete yet, but there’s an amazing amount of work that has been done. You could go watch it on his Web site, but where’s the geekiness in that? Instead, fire up Terminal and type:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Press Return, then sit back and enjoy the show. If you (gasp!) tire of the performance before it ends, just hit Control-C to break the connection, then close the Terminal window. And if you’d rather not type the command directly in Terminal, you can actually launch it via most web browsersâ€â€just use this URL: telnet://towel.blinkenlights.nl.
The other tip is also hellaciously cool. Imagine on the fly rendering all your quicktime movies as ascii text movies? Check out the sample video and all the rest of the info about this by heading over to the Macworld link above. Me? I’m going to go and watch all of the Terry Tate Reebok ads in glorious asciivision!
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