This is one of those clever hacks that puts smiles on geeks faces, and makes the round for a few weeks, then disappears to be replaced by the next clever hack. But I am a geek, and it put a smile on my face, so I present it to you.

Taking advantage of Google Groups' color-highlighting of search results, "artistic" geeks have produced color ASCII art in plain-text newsgroup postings. Poke around in the thread to find more.

My favorite: