LibcacaWhilst procrastinating over yet another dead line, I thought I’d have a play with libcaca, the completely useless yet completely brilliant Colour AsCii Art library. libcaca is a graphics library that output text rather than images. The genius part of it is that you can use it as a video output in mplayer and display all your wonderful HD videos as text!

I always love stuff like this. You can see how much work as gone even though it’s a complete waste of time. It’s a similar idea to NetQoS‘ Network management display which again is great but completely useless. Check that out here http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/10/watch-your-network-play-space-invaders/