"It's something I don't think anyone has ever done before," he told the team's Web site. "Have I ever had a reason for why I do what I do? I'm having fun."
Two years ago, Johnson gave himself the moniker -- a reference in Spanish to his No. 85 -- and put it on the back of his uniform before a game. Quarterback Carson Palmer ripped it off before the kickoff. After the season, coach Marvin Lewis -- who dislikes Johnson's attention-getting stunts -- referred to the receiver as "Ocho Psycho."
Bengals spokesman Jack Brennan said the Bengals had no comment on the matter. Johnson has been a concern for the Bengals this season. He unsuccessfully lobbied for a trade in the offseason, threatening to sit out if he didn't get his way. When the Bengals refused, he relented and showed up for minicamp, but complained that his right ankle was bothering him.
He had bone spurs removed from the ankle and was limited at the start of training camp. In the second preseason game, he landed awkwardly and temporarily dislocated his left shoulder. Johnson is wearing a harness and expects to play in the season opener against Baltimore.
So now they have to put Ocho Cinco on his jersey, huh?
In an interview with Alaska Business Monthly shortly after she took office in 2007, Palin was asked about the upcoming surge. She said she hadn't thought about it. "I've been so focused on state government, I haven't really focused much on the war in Iraq," she said.
Note: If you have a short attention span, skip the text and just watch the video below.
There's a cool tool that's just come out called Ubiquity, a plugin for Firefox (get the prototype here) that lets you do some really powerful stuff. It's created by one of the leading UI designers, Aza Raskin, who now does work for Mozilla Labs including creating the interface for the upcoming mobile version of Firefox. Here's the most concise way to describe Ubiquity, from the Mozilla Labs announcement:
You're writing an email to invite a friend to meet at a local San Francisco restaurant that neither of you has been to. You'd like to include a map. Today, this involves the disjointed tasks of message composition on a web-mail service, mapping the address on a map site, searching for reviews on the restaurant on a search engine, and finally copying all links into the message being composed. This familiar sequence is an awful lot of clicking, typing, searching, copying, and pasting in order to do a very simple task. And you haven't even really sent a map or useful reviews-only links to them.
Ubiquity aims to make the task described much easier by providing an interface that can combine all the information for you, and drop it into your email. And emails are just one example of the usefulness.
In an example more relevant to my own recent apartment search, I remember what a hassle it was going through Craigslist search results and having to map each page individually using Google Map links on each listing. In the sample video below, he just highlights the results he wants and can map them all at once...Ubiquity will follow each link, find the location, and group them all together on a Google Map, all using a single command. Pretty powerful stuff.
Check out the above video for an exclusive look at Kevin Connolly in the opening scene from Season 5 of HBO's Entourage. Eric Murphy is watching as tv critics slam Vincent Chase and Medellin. Looks like Season 5 is going to be an uphill climb for Adrian Grenier's alter-ego. (also looks like the guys are living with Drama again!)
As I've stated (often) before, I just hope they can bring the show back to the greatness of the first 2 seasons.
This story's hilarious...a guy was robbing a drug store and ended up locking his keys in his getaway vehicle. But it's even more ridiculous because he was using a caulking gun covered with a cloth as his weapon. What was he going to do...threaten to grout some tiles? And finally, while fleeing on foot since he couldn't getaway in his car, he ended up getting shot in the shoulder because the cops thought he really had a gun during the chase.
This is really cool...some technology from Microsoft Research and the Weizmann Institute allows editing of video, letting you add 2D objects to a 3D video. In one example they draw a mustache on someone's face, and the mustache shows up in the video, moving along with the face so it looks like there really is a mustache there.
The audio provides a full explanation, but really it's just cool to watch the video.
Whether you've been following the whole saga or not, this is hilarious. While reporting on some story, Stephen Colbert clarified he was talking about the city of Canton, Ohio and not "crappy" Canton, Georgia. There was a news report that followed a day or two later of appalled Canton, Georgia residents that found his comments offensive.
So he apologized, but the went on to call Canton, Kansas a shithole (it was bleeped, of course). As expected, they had a news story about those residents being upset, so he apologized and called Canton, South Dakota "America's assberg" and the ashtray of North Dakota. Which brings us to the latest video, in which he apologizes again, and then calls Canton, TX an unincorporated outhouse.
Apologies if these videos only work in the US!
Colbert calls Canton, GA crappy
Colbert apologizes to Canton, GA and calls Canton, KS a shithole
This is a major bummer...I knew Bernie Mac was in a Chicago hospital for pneumonia, but reports during the week seemed to indicate that he was improving. CNN is now reporting that he passed away due to complications related to the pneumonia.
The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.
It's too bad, he was really hilarious in pretty much everything I ever saw him in.
Yep, the Olympics have officially begun and there's a ton of coverage across a bunch of channels. EngadgetHD had a nice table of what's on the different channels at different times. I've turned that list into a much-easier-to-figure-out graphic:
There's a big gaping hole in coverage between 11:30pm and 12am!
Yeah, politics are in full swing and candidates will frequently take jabs at each other. That is entirely unsurprising. What's amazing though, is the tactics of McCain's campaign, spending all of their time trying to convince everyone that Obama is overhyped and "too much of a celebrity" while failing to say anything about what McCain is planning to do and how he's planning to do it.
Case in point, the ad they're now running about how Obama is "The One":
Of course the Daily Show had some nice commentary on how ridiculous these ads are:
Choice quote from that video: George Stephanopoulos: You have about 300 billion dollars by your own count, of taxes cuts a year in your own plan...that means your previous promise to balance your budget in the first year - that's gone.
McCain: No, of course not. Look, I'll find you a hundred billion tomorrow.
And they came up with a great slogan for McCain to really drive home the point of how Obama is just really popular and McCain wants to differentiate himself from that:
