This one is a little off-topic... it was so cool I decided to post it here anyways. I was going through my rss reader and found this at Lifehacker:
"Free application ASCGEN, or Ascii Generator dotNET, takes in standard pictures and puts out images generated entirely from simple computer text."
[via Lifehacker]
Downloading and installing took me about a moment and I took it for a test-drive (with an old pic of my Dad and me). Check out the results: 
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