A little time-waster

Here's one that will take an image from the web or your own computer, and turn it into ASCII art—that is, instead of pixels, it uses letters, numbers and symbols to define the image.

ASCII ART GENERATOR

Example:

My current profile image...

becomes this:

(Click on the ASCII image; for this thumbnail, Blogger converted it from a crisp GIF file to a blurry JPG.)

A better contrast photo will theoretically produce better results.

Nice time waster!