On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Rolf wrote:

> markp@cannontech.com wrote:
>> Go to a command prompt and type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl"
>> 
>> 
> Don't post that link to Slashdot!
>
> very funny. People have too much time on their hands. Amazing what 
> masterpieces are produced by bored misdirected enthusiasm.

The ASCII art is produced by a program. It turns any movie into live 
ASCII art ;-) The program is called aaxine and it is a part of most 
Linux distributions. From the manual page:

"aaxine is for those who don't have a high end video card, but just want 
to watch DVDs on their good old vt100 ;-)"

You can watch a DVD movie rendered on a terminal if you really want to 
...

Peter
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