Cooler ASCII Spinners?

ascii-art, console-application, progress-indicator, throbber, user-interface

Solution

Balloons...

. o O @ *

Problem

In a console app, an ascii spinner can be used, like the GUI wait cursor, to indicate that work is being done. A common spinner cycles through these 4 characters: '|', '/', '-', '\' What are some other cyclical animation sequences to spice up a console application?

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