The T-SQL Mandelbrot, or “ZOMGSQUEE”.
"So I was bored at work one day," Graeme Job explains, "and wondered, what's the most useless thing I could do with my time without actually doing anything. Then it hit me. I could use T-SQL to generate... Mandelbrot."
Graeme continued, "Following is a single T-SQL SELECT statement that generates a text-representation of a Mandelbrot Set. The results are best viewed in text-mode."
Oh my sweet baby goddess. If the fact that this sort of thing makes my toes curl is wrong, I don't wanna be right.
(Related link: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Stupid-Coding-Tric...)
I have just shat some ascii bricks. Oh my god, that's stupidly useless and completely awesome at the same time. :) I think he succeeded in his goal!