I've never been much of a patriot before, nor much of an ascii artist (i look at alot of these obfus and drool, really). But here's something i made in my spare time thats both. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;map{chomp;print pack("H*","$_");}<DATA>
__DATA__
1b5b353b313b33336d0a4a2041205020482020
0a1b5b6d75206e2065206120200a73206f2072
206320200a742074206c206b20200a20206820
20206520200a2020652020207220200a202072
2020202020200a200820082008200820082008
20082008200820082008200820082008200820
08200820082008200820082008200820082008
20082008200820082008200820082008200820
0820
0820
08
20
08
20
08
20
07
20
08
20
08
20
08

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note: like i said, i'm not much of an artist, so i couldn't figure out a way to get stars in there for an american flag. but greets still go out to the 270,000,000 of you who would proudly recognize them if i -had- put them on there. (8
have a nice weekend
strfry()

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Re: patriotic japh
by CubicSpline (Friar) on Oct 13, 2001 at 04:40 UTC
    Just as a note to everyone else: This code does not work correctly under Windows due to coloration of the text. Now, if I friggin knew how pack worked, maybe I could patch it.
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      the problem is that you cannot update the code directly, you first have to unpack all the __DATA__ , modify it, and then repack it so that it can work with unpack "H*"
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        Sorry, i'd tried it on win98, freebsd,linux, and win2k, and it'd worked..
        but i'd also had ansi.sys loaded on win98/dos.. here it is without ansi codes (: 
        #!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;map{chomp;print pack("H*","$_");}<DATA>
__DATA__
4a20412050204820200a1b5b6d75206e2065
206120200a73206f2072206320200a742074
206c206b20200a2020682020206520200a20
20652020207220200a202072202020202020
0a2008200820082008200820082008200820
082008200820082008200820082008200820
0820
0820
08
20
20
08
20
08
20
07
20
08
20
08
20
08

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        as a side note, it's also possible to edit it if you know what the hex codes mean (:
        i wouldn't be surprised if some of the monks around here, having more experience with pack()/unpack() than myself, were able to decypher it without using any pack method at all. (8
        also, the ascii codes for \b (08) and " " (20) seem to work fine on the machine i'm using to reply (win98). let me know if they're fudging the effort up on your end.
        strfry()
        "and have a pleasant tomorrow..." -- SNL, Weekend Update
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