Posted AT 9:22 AM EDT on 07/07/06
Soccer by the numbers, letters and symbols
I have discovered the worst possible way to watch the World Cup. I wasn't planning to touch on the subject; it was all I could do, I figured, to provide a respite from the wall-to-wall media coverage, the unending noise outside. Alas, I've found a way to drag the World Cup down to my level. It seems that somebody has decided to stream the World Cup live, over the Internet . . . in ASCII.
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