With the world cup fever catching on, millions of soccer crazy people all over the world are glued to the TV to see the outcome of each match. Frankly, I find Soccer a much more fast paced and enjoyable game - what with the constant scream of crowds and the rush of adrenalin... And enterprising people who can't watch the game live on TV are finding ways of keeping track of the game through alternate means.
One such project which allows one to watch the Soccer World Cup live on ones computer is Ascii-wm.net . This site is streaming a live feed of the game in Ascii format which anyone can view by telneting to their server. In *nix, you can view the stream in two ways; one via telnet and the other via netcat as follows:
$ telnet ascii-wm.net 2006OR
$ nc ascii-wm.net 2006
Fig: Ascii football All the power to them for their love of soccer and for making this feed available.
