World Cup Prize Money

I was watching a game the other day and was a little surprised to hear one of the commentators talk about prize money. For all the years I have watched the world cup it was the first time I heard it. So I looked around and found out that a lot of money is set aside for this. In fact it is 332 million Swiss francs ($270 million) that is set aside for prizes. It was hard to find the data since it was distributed in many small articles.

The amount given to teams range from 7 million Swiss francs (currently $5.6 million) for teams beaten in the first round to 25.5 million Swiss francs ($20 million) for the champion.

So the next question is who gets the money? hmm..

World Cup in ASCII art!

Nice hack for geeky soccer fans.. Reminds me of the matrix.. Watch a live feed of the world cup in ASCII art at http://ascii-wm.net/

All you need to do is telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 and enjoy!

InquisitorX

Came across inquisitorx today which is a little search aggregator that provides suggestions as you type with one click search engine changes. Additionally, you can download a safari plugin for it. Seems useful and cool. Plan to use it for a couple of days.

BlogBridge

I have been on the search for a feed reader and really never found something that I liked. Mussie suggested that I try a reader called BlogBridge designed by one of his friends Pito. After a couple of days of using it I really like it. Nice UI, simple, fast, and open source.

Here are a couple of features that I liked:

• Subscribing to a feed defaults the url in the clipboard
• Unread marks work well for me
• Voting on feed is cool
• Tag integration
  
• Feed sync across computers
• SmartFeeds
• Works on both Mac and Windows