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Your World of Text - a collaborative text editing experiment

Your World of Text

I hesitate to call Your World of Text a Time Waster, though that might be all it's really good for. The concept of Your World of Text is that you are looking at an infinite grid of text that any anonymous user can edit. If you're thinking "Warning, warning Will Robinson!", then we're on the same wavelength. Beware -- if you visit this site, you're looking at the uncensored internet.

Users can click anywhere but in the center of the screen that loads when you first load the site and edit text. That first area is locked as it gives you a description of what you're looking at, as well as a list of other Your World of Text sub-sites.

Scrolling around a bit, the site seems to be full of ASCII art, random ramblings, and more than a few impromptu chat sessions. It's hard to see what the point of Your World of Text is, but like a train wreck, it's also hard to look away.

Filed under: Fun, Web services

ASCII-O-Matic: ASCIIfy your photos

ASCII-O-MaticASCII-O-Matic is a fun web toy from Typorganism that will turn any photo you upload into fab ASCII art. There are many other such web sites and programs, but ASCII-O-Matic wraps it in a nice Flash interface and gives you a few extra options. You can choose black and white or color, and if you don't want ASCII it can also render an image out of blocks. Uploading is a tad limited, allowing only JPEGs and requiring you to resize your images to 60x50 pixels before uploading, but once you've uploaded your image you can generate HTML for pasting into a web page.

[Via #!/usr/bin/girl]

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