Watch the World Cup 2006 Match from Linux terminal (or from Windows) in ASCII

This is cool and wonderful stuff.

According to this article, “HAVING TROUBLE seeing the World Cup from your office due to the stubborn refusal of the BBC to broadcast video feeds over the web to outside the UK? Or maybe the concept of watching football offends your tech side?”

Just open terminal and type the following command:
telnet ascii-wm.net 2006
OR

telnet diego.ascii-wm.net 2006

See offical site for more information.

Free Click-Fraud Tools, to detect PPC ads Click-Fraud

If you or your company pay for pay-per-click ads in search engines, and if you are worried about click fraud then you need to use free program called Click Sentinel.

Click Sentinel v1.0 was a paid software program. But, version 2.0 is now open source software. It is antifraud software.

According to site, it provides:

  1. Free click fraud analytics
  2. Facilitate vendor/ client relationships
  3. Encourage and deliver education on click fraud issues
  4. Provide a community action and awareness approach.

You can download to this program by joining online community. You can read more about this topic here.

Mysterious red cells might be aliens and may have landed in india

As bizarre as it may seem, the sample jars brimming with cloudy, reddish rainwater in Godfrey Louis’s laboratory in southern India may hold, well, aliens. Scientists have yet to identify these unusual red particles.
red cells

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Note sure if this true or not, even scientist himself is doubtful of the idea ;)

Writing perfect CV or resume

I was searching net for a good tips on writing my CV. My search ended @ Yahoo! India career portal. Overall, it gives me an excellent advice for the perfect CV :)

According to them:

  1. Keep it simple
  2. Avoid typos and grammar/spelling errors
  3. Use normal fonts that are not fancy, too large, or small
  4. Make sure you pay attention to format of CV

Read the full article at: Yahoo! India career web page (Look like yahoo india careers portal is dead)