Congress Mulls Doomsday Plan: "In the new age of terrorism, Congress is quietly developing emergency plans to deal with a doomsday scenario in which many lawmakers are killed or injured during an attack."

Indiana Jones to return for fourth film: "Variety reports Frank Darabont, the writer/director of "The Majestic," has been offered the job of writing the fourth installment of the "Indiana Jones" franchise and a deal is expected to be signed imminently. Paramount insiders say the picture will be aimed at a July 2005 holiday weekend berth."

Just saw a really appropriate commercial on Univision. Three guys wake up in the middle of the night, grab Cokes form the fridge and sit down in front of the television set. The camera pulls out, through their apartment window, and we see that their's is the only lighted window in the city. Coke then thanks them for their "support during the World Cup." Today was easy. Tomorrow will be hard. Four games, three of which will be on when I'm normally sleeping.

France 0 - Senegal 1: "FIFA World Cup debutantes Senegal kicked off the 2002 edition of the world's greatest sporting event by shocking holders France 0 : 1 in Seoul, Korea through a first-half goal from Papa Bouba Diop."

Mariposan teen Jennifer Rios was ousted from the National Spelling Bee by the word secernment.

World Cup blog: "For readers in the UK (and other parts of Europe), please be forewarned: this blog originates in the Eastern US, where some ungodly start times, the need to actually attend to family and work (at least minimally), the resulting need to watch some matches on videotape and some highly annoying decisions in the US broadcast schedule may lead to you knowing the outcome of a match long before I've seen it - and the posts here seeming a little s---l----o----w."

Statistical model tackles World Cup predictions: "A new statistical model of the World Cup football tournament could provide a more accurate set of predictions than either bookmakers and television pundits, according to Henry Stott, a mathematician at the University of Warwick, UK. Stott has used a modelling technique more commonly applied to financial risk assessment to predict the outcome of every game in the 2002 competition, as well as the ultimate winners.:

ESPN's World Cup announcers suck. They have no energy, no excitement in their voice. Its almost as bad as the as how NBC treated the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

Sacramento Stripper mom poses for Playboy Web site: "California woman who quit a stripping job so her 5-year-old daughter could return to her Christian school has now posed nude for Playboy's Web site, although disappointed church officials said the child would not be expelled this time."

2002 Google Programming Contest Winner: "Daniel Egnor's Geographic Search. Daniel's project adds the ability to search for web pages within a particular geographic locale to traditional keyword searching. To accomplish this, Daniel converted street addresses found within a large corpus of documents to latitude-longitude-based coordinates using the freely available TIGER and FIPS data sources, and built a two-dimensional index of these coordinates. Daniel's system provides an interface that allows the user to augment a keyword search with the ability to restrict matches to within a certain radius of a specified address (useful for queries that are difficult to answer using just keyword searching, such as "find me all bookstores near my house"). We selected Daniel's project because it combined an interesting and useful idea with a clean and robust implementation."