Cool.
FIGlet didn't look pretty enough for me so i looked for a way to make it look nicer and came across one that looks a lot better. Its called toilet :P its in the repos too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbg_Ypn_QO0
A bajillion psychodellic colours!
I thinking of writing a python script to make a splash out of it using the curses module.