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How does he do it?  Very carefully.  Seriously, I can only think of two
possible ways the famous Scarecrow makes his sigs.  1) He comes up with
a good idea (or sees a good idea somewhere else and copies it) and proceeds
to create the graphic by hand (er, by keyboard?)  or 2) He uses a little
program called figlet which lets you type in words/phrases and spits out
large versions in one of the many fonts available.
(Of course, my personal opinion is the only way anyone can have as many
sigs as Scarecrow is to put an infinite number of monkeys in front of
an infinite number of computers and take anything that vaguely looks like
Scarecrow.  :-)  

-- Alan De Smet
   chaos@yar.cs.wisc.edu
   Mostly (But not entirely) Harmless
   The opinions expressed above are yours.