Cowsay

Another stupud trick with shell, using figlet and cowsay. Figlet will turn your text into ascii big letter haxor text. Cowsay will make an ascii cow say whate ver you feed it. A little bit of piping and you have a cow clock.

watch -n1 'date +%X | figlet | cowsay -n'

watch -n1 will watch the command every second date +%X prints the time in HH:MM:SS format figlet makes the ASCCI text big letters cowsay -n makes the cow say the words, and -n formats the text correctly (“arbitrary whitespace”), add -d for a dead eye cow.

 ________________________________________________________ 
/   ___ ____    _____ _  _    _  _ _____   ____  __  __  \
|  / _ \___ \ _|___ /| || | _| || |___  | |  _ \|  \/  | |
| | | | |__) (_) |_ \| || |(_) || |_ / /  | |_) | |\/| | |
| | |_| / __/ _ ___) |__   _||__   _/ /   |  __/| |  | | |
|  \___/_____(_)____/   |_|(_)  |_|/_/    |_|   |_|  |_| |
\                                                        /
 -------------------------------------------------------- 
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||----w |
                ||     ||

Or you can get real fancy and sent it all through lolcat for fancy rainbow text.