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In Part 1 of this series, we had a look at how the underlying protocols of the Web work, and how we can use JavaScript to estimate their performance characteristics. In this second part, we’ll look at DNS, IPv6 and the new W3C specification for the NavigationTiming API.
Every device attached to the Internet is identified by a numeric address known as an IP address. The two forms of IP addresses seen on the open Internet are IPv4, which is a 32-bit number often represented as a series of four decimal numbers separated by dots, e.g. 80.72.139.101, and IPv6 which is a 128-bit number represented as a series of multiple hexadecimal numbers separated by colons, e.g. 2607:f298:1:103::c8c:a407.
These addresses are good for computers to understand; they take up a fixed number of bytes and can easily be processed, but they’re hard for humans to remember. They’re also not very good for branding, and are often tied to a geographic location or an infrastructure service provider (like an ISP or a hosting provider).
To get around these shortcomings, the “Domain Name System” was invented. At its simplest form, DNS creates a mapping between a human readable name, like “www.smashingmagazine.com” and its machine readable address (80.72.139.101). DNS can hold much more information, but this is all that’s important for this article.
For now, we’ll focus on DNS latency, and how we can measure it using JavaScript from the browser. DNS latency is important because the browser needs to do a DNS lookup for every unique hostname that it needs to download resources from — even if multiple hostnames map to the same IP address.
The simple way to measure DNS lookup time from JavaScript would be to first measure the latency to a host using its IP address, and then measure it again using its hostname. The difference between the two should give us DNS lookup time. We use the methods developed in Part 1 to measure latency.
The problem with this approach is that if the browser has already done a DNS lookup on this hostname, then that lookup will be cached, and we won’t really get a difference. What we need, is a wildcard DNS record, and a Web server listening on it. Carlos Bueno did a great write-up about this on the YDN blog a few years ago, and built the code that boomerang uses.
Before we look at the code, let’s take a quick look at how DNS lookups work with the following (simplified) diagram:
From left to right: The client here is the browser, the DNS server is (typically) the user’s ISP, the Root name server knows where to look for most domains (or who to ask if it doesn’t know about them), and finally the authoritative server which is the DNS server of the website owner.
Each of these layers has their own cache, and that cache generally sticks around for as long as the authoritative server’s TTL (known as “Time To Live”) says it should; but not all servers follow the spec (and that’s a complete topic for itself).
Now, let’s look at the code:
var dns_time;
function start() {
var gen_url, img,
t_start, t_dns, t_http,
random = Math.floor(Math.random()*(2147483647)).toString(36);
// 1. Create a random hostname within our domain
gen_url = "http://*.foo.com".replace(/\*/, random);
var A_loaded = function() {
t_dns = new Date().getTime() - t_start;
// 3. Load another image from the same host (see step 2 below)
img = new Image();
img.onload = B_loaded;
t_start = new Date().getTime();
img.src = gen_url + "image-l.gif?t=" + (new Date().getTime()) + Math.random();
};
var B_loaded = function() {
t_http = new Date().getTime() - t_start;
img = null;
// 4. DNS time is the time to load the image with uncached DNS
// minus the time to load the image with cached DNS
dns_time = t_dns - t_http;
};
// 2. Load an image from the random hostname
img = new Image();
img.onload = A_loaded;
t_start = new Date().getTime();
img.src = gen_url + "image-l.gif?t=" + (new Date().getTime()) + Math.random();
}Let’s step through the code quickly. What we’ve done here is the following:
The first measured time period includes DNS lookup time, TCP handshake time and network latency. The second time measured includes network latency.
There are two downsides to this approach though. First, it measures the worst case DNS lookup time, i.e. the time it takes to do a DNS lookup if your hostname isn’t cached by any intermediate DNS server. In practice, this isn’t always the case. There isn’t an easy way to get around that without the help of browsers, and we’ll get to that later at the end of this article.
Also, what probably makes it hard for most people to implement is setting up a wildcard DNS record. This isn’t always possible if you don’t control your DNS servers. Many shared hosting providers won’t let you set up a wildcard DNS record. The only thing you can do in this case is to move hosting providers, or at least DNS providers.
Technically, measuring IPv6 shouldn’t really be a separate topic, however, even a decade after its introduction, IPv6 adoption is still fairly low. ISPs have been holding back because not too many websites offer IPv6 support, and website owners have been holding back because not too many of their users have IPv6 support, and they’re not sure how it will impact performance or user experience.
The IPv6 test in boomerang helps you determine if your users have IPv6 support and how their IPv6 latency compares to IPv4 latency. It doesn’t check to see if their IPv6 support is broken or not (but see Google’s IPv6 test page if you’d like to know that).
There are two parts to the IPv6 test:
The first test tells us if the user’s network can make IPv6 connections. The second tells us if their DNS server can lookup AAAA records. We need to run the test in this order because we’d be unable to correctly test DNS if connections at the IP level fail.
The code is very similar to the DNS test, except we don’t need a wildcard DNS record:
var ipv6_url = "http://[2600:1234::d155]/image-l.gif",
host_url = "http://ipv6.foo.com/image-l.gif",
timeout: 1200,
ipv6_latency='NA', dnsv6_latency='NA',
timers: {
ipv6: { start: null, end: null },
host: { start: null, end: null }
};
var img,
rnd = "?t=" + (new Date().getTime()) + Math.random(),
timer=0, error = null;
img = new Image();
function HOST_loaded() {
// 4. When image loads, record its time
timers['host'].end = new Date().getTime();
clearTimeout(timer);
img.onload = img.onerror = null;
img = null;
// 5. Calculate latency
done();
}
function error(which) {
// 6. If any image fails to load or times out, terminate the test immediately
timers[which].supported = false;
clearTimeout(timer);
img.onload = img.onerror = null;
img = null;
done();
}
function done() {
if(timers['ipv6'].end !== null) {
ipv6_latency = timers.ipv6.end - timers.ipv6.start;
}
if(timers['host'].end !== null) {
dnsv6_latency = timers.host.end - timers.host.start;
}
}
img.onload = function() {
// 2. When image loads, record its time
timers['ipv6'].end = new Date().getTime();
clearTimeout(timer);
// 3. Then load image with hostname that only resolves to ipv6 address
img = new Image();
img.onload = HOST_loaded;
img.onerror = function() { error('host') };
timer = setTimeout(function() { error('host') }, timeout);
timers['host].start = new Date().getTime();
img.src = host_url + rnd;
};
img.onerror = function() { error('ipv6') };
timer = setTimeout(function() { error('ipv6') }, timeout);
this.timers['ipv6'].start = new Date().getTime();
// 1. Load image with ipv6 address
img.src = ipv6_url + rnd;Yes, this code can be refactored to make it smaller, but that would make it harder to explain. This is what we do:
ipv6_latency or dnsv6_latency) set to “NA”, indicating no support.There are other ways to test IPv6 support with help from the server side, for example, have your server set a cookie stating whether it was loaded via IPv4 or IPv6. This only works well if your testing page and your image page are on the same domain.
The NavigationTiming API is an interface provided by many modern browsers that gives JavaScript developers detailed information about the time the browser spent in the various states of downloading a page. The specification is still in a draft state, but as of the date of this article, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox support it. Safari and Opera do not currently support the API.
JavaScript developers get access to the NavigationTiming object through window.performance.timing. Try this now. If you’re using Chrome, IE 9+ or Firefox 8+, open a Web console and inspect the contents of window.performance.timing.
The diagram below explains the order of events whose time shows up in the object. Let’s look at a few of them:
Now the items we’ve been interested in measuring are:
loadEventEnd and navigationStart. The latter tells us when the user initiated the page load, either by clicking a link, or entering it into their browser’s URL bar. The latter tells us when the onload event finished. If we’re not interested in the execution time of the onload event, we could use loadEventStart instead.requestStart and responseStart.connectStart and connectEnd, however, if the connection is over SSL, then this includes the time to negotiate an SSL handshake. You’d need to take that into account, and use secureConnectionStart instead of connectEnd if it exists, and if you care about the difference.domainLookupStart and domainLookupEnd.
Important: We use a combination of times from window.performance.timing to determine each one of these.
While this looks good for the most part, and really tells you what your users experience, there are a few caveats to be aware of. If DNS is already cached, then DNS latency will be 0. Similarly, if the browser uses a persistent TCP connection, then TCP connect time will be 0. If the document is read out of cache, then network latency will be 0. Keep these points in mind and use them to determine what fraction of your users makes effective use of available application caches.
The Navigation Timing interface provides us with many more timers, but several of them are restricted by the browser’s same origin policy. These include details about redirects and unloading of the previous page. Other timers related to the DOM already have equivalent JavaScript events, namely the readystatechange, DOMComplete and load events.
Another interesting network related API is the Network Information API. While not strictly performance related, it does help make guesses at expected network performance. This API is currently only supported by Android devices, and is exposed via the navigator.connection.type object. In particular, it tells you whether the device is currently using Ethernet, Wi-Fi, 2G or 3G.
An article I highly recommend reading would be David Calhoun’s piece that shows some good examples on Optimizing Based On Connection Speed. Both the article and the comments are useful reading.
While the Navigation Timing API provides easy access to accurate page timing information, it is still insufficient to draw a complete picture. There is still some benefit to estimating various performance characteristics using the techniques mentioned earlier in this series.
Whether we need to support browsers that do not currently implement the Navigation Timing or get information about resources not included in the current page, be sure to find out more about the user’s network bandwidth or whether their support for IPv6 is better or worse than their support for IPv4 — a combination of methods gives us the best all-round picture.
All of the techniques presented here were developed while writing Boomerang though not all of them made it into the code yet.
The following links helped in writing this article and may be referred to for more information on specific topics:
(Credits of image on frontpage: Vlasta Juricek)
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Designers often find themselves in a chicken-egg situation when it comes to content: you need the content to design, but the client wants to write content for finished designs. This is where placeholder text comes in.
Since the 1500s the role of placeholder text has been played by a passage from Cicero’s — yes, he whose hands ended up nailed to the door of the senate — ‘The Extremes of Good and Evil’, better known by its opening two words: Lorem ipsum.
However, recently usability experts have questioned the value of dummy text, arguing that meaningless words are treated differently by our eyes than passages of real text, that our brains attempt to parse into words and phrases. Furthermore, designers themselves are increasingly questioning the value of text you can’t read when readability is one of the key aims of typographic design.
The issue of course stems from the fact that in the 16th century, a substantial percentage of the printed material was written in Latin, and thus indistinguishable from Cicero’s text. Even 100 years ago, the educated classes were expected to have a passable grasp of Latin.
With the exception of doctors and lawyers, most of us don’t read Latin any longer. That means we need dummy text in the same language as the final content, fortunately there’s a lot to choose from:
Lorem ipsum claims to be the original ipsum site, so as good a place as any to start. Provides some interesting background to lorem ipsum, including translations of the original text by Cicero.
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Choose number of words, sentences or paragraphs, add from the list of tags available, and get traditional lorem ipsum.
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www.i-r-genius.com/lipsum.html
Options include paragraph size, some formatting and html or plain text.
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Creates paragraphs or lists. Includes the option to download as .pdf, .png, .jpg, or .gif with background and text colour choosers and for the images, size settings. The .pdf download works, I am not getting any text in the image – not sure if this is how it is meant to work.
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www.generateit.net/lorem-ipsum
A simple, clean easy to use generator which provides the requested number of paragraphs in traditional lorem ipsum.
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With 5 size settings, this gives you both paragraphs and lists, and can be copied as either html or plain text.
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Includes options to add html formatting and headings.
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Six static paragraphs of lorem ipsum, with several case options to choose from.
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Not so much dummy text, to fit in as and where you need it, as html snippets. Includes several types of list, a form and an empty table, as well as standard paragraphs.
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This one claims to be more random than other random generators.
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This does not randomise the text but it offers the lorem ipsum text as short or long paragraphs, or as list items.
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As simple and basic as it gets, this gives you the original lorem ipsum text in either sentence case or all caps, with no randomisation.
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Another very simple and to the point generator. Choose the how many paragraphs and how many sentence in each, and get the requested amount of lorem ipsum.
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Lets you add section headings to your text.
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subterrane.com/files/loremipsum.html
Provides text from the classic lorem ipsum source, Latin words and phrases adopted by English, and random Interlingua.
Ma quande lingues coalesce, li grammatica del resultant lingue es plu simplic e regulari quam ti del coalescent lingues. Li nov lingua franca va esser plu simplic e regulari quam li existent Europan lingues. It va esser tam simplic quam Occidental: in fact, it va esser Occidental. A un Angleso it va semblar un simplificat Angles, quam un skeptic Cambridge amico dit me que Occidental es.
www.blindtextgenerator.com/lorem-ipsum
This offers a choice between lorem ipsum, Cicero’s original text, Li Europan lingues, pangrams and text from Werther and Kafka. Word count and number of paragraphs are set independently.
Li Europan lingues es membres del sam familie. Lor separat existentie es un myth. Por scientie, musica, sport etc, litot Europa usa li sam vocabular. Li lingues differe solmen in li grammatica, li pronunciation e li plu commun vocabules.
This uses Lorem ipsum and random English. Includes an API to return content in JSON format.
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Provides dummy text in mulitple languages and several alphabets, including cyrillic, greek, hindu, chinese, japanese and arabic. The site itself is available in English, Spanish and German.
Ατ σανστυς λαβορες ιντελλεγεβαθ σεα. Κυι νο φυγιθ κυανδο, περ φασερ φιδερερ διγνισιμ θε, ιυς εξ νοβις νομινατι. Εως γραεσε φοσιβυς συ, συ μαγνα λαβωρε ευμ. Φιμ λυδυς υρβανιθας εα, ει ηας γραεσε φιδερερ αβχορρεανθ. Αυτεμ φυγιθ ευ μει. Ιυς κυας δεσωρε απεριρι υθ, νε λεγιμυς ερροριβυς σπλενδιδε συμ, φιμ ατ σολεατ σαπερεθ.
Provides passages of text in 24 different languages, which can then be further tweaked to suit.
Danmark (fra oldnordisk: Danernes mark) er et land i Skandinavien beliggende i det nordlige Europa. Danmark kaldes sammen med Grønland og Færøerne officielt Kongeriget Danmark. Danmark grænser til Tyskland mod syd og er omgivet af flere have: Vesterhavet (Nordsøen), Skagerrak og Kattegat på vest, nord, og østsiden af Jylland, Kattegat og Østersøen nord og syd for de danske øer. Danmark består af halvøen Jylland og navngivne øer, småøer og holme. De tidligste tegn på menneskelig tilstedeværelse i dagens Danmark ligger.
Choose between Te Reo (Maori) or English, and use a Maori folktale as your placeholder text.
Ko te moemoea a Maui kia haere ngatahi ai ratou ko ona tuakana ki te hii ika. I te hokinga mai o ona tuakana ki tatahi, ka kii atu a Maui, “ka taea e au te haramai i to koutou na taha ki te hii ika?” Engari, ko te whakautu o ona tuakana ki a ia ano, “Kao, he rangatahi noa iho koe. Kaore he wahi mau kei te waka nei, na reira me noho tau ki tatahi ke”.
The creator of this particular ipsum has chosen a Latin translation of the Book of Job as a source. Perhaps to remind us that even the worst client is still not as bad as being swallowed by a whale.
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Sadly, not the language spoken by diminutive robot traders on Tatooine, but a real language spoken by the people of Java.
Ulam maos warni pupur kelud, kangge sendhok andhapan epek-epek, nedha, dipetak, sendhok pupur bebucal mular kemben dodot, manah kijing gendhis jampi rah adhi cepeng peksi teken bebucal tumut maesa. Lair, irung benter suku kelud, badhe sirah rekaos tuwi wos ayam–pupu wungu. Cucul pindhah sekar raos gesang rambut dangu cucul rah tuwuh kemul gugah, cemeng dodot crios mambet pupak. Bojo balung, kalung selir mendem raos; dhawah manak cariyos ngiringaken ngadeg tuma; gineman segawon. Rah gulu wingking kakang ayam artos benang, “iket: surya sarem sakit; bojo sapih.” Sirah toya leres, swanten naleni umur segawon pedhang, segawon bidal; ningali manah, toyan; supe siti bucal pupur balung, crios kakang sangsam?
Available in English and French, this uses Psalms as the basis for random text. A bit of divine inspiration is always helpful.
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer. You sons of men, how long shall my glory be turned into dishonor? Will you love vanity, and seek after falsehood? But know that Yahweh has set apart for himself him who is godly: Yahweh will hear when I call to him. Stand in awe, and don’t sin.
Uses legalese – a language that was deliberately created to be so boring and obfuscating to most normal people that they would never bother trying to read it.
It is wise never to modify the software. General; Definitions. This License does not bring the other work as a result, the Commercial Contributor then makes performance claims, or offers warranties related to those Modifications, and cause the direction or management of such entity. Permitted Uses; Conditions & Restrictions.
As the name suggests, this is not lorem ipsum but industry specific sample copy.
We are a small personal bank that we believe will be right for you. We have 100 branches around the country, which are all open from 8.30am – 5.30pm every week day and Saturday too. If you go to our Contact Us page you will find contact phone numbers for all of our branches.
Choose between inspiration, motivational, and happy quotes to use.
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Creates lists with the option of adding extra formatting.
<li>Gonzales</li> <li>Williams</li> <li>Hayes</li> <li>Brown</li> <li>Hall</li> <li>Robinson</li> <li>Hall</li> <li>Scott</li> <li>Gonzales</li> <li>Green</li> <li>Lewis</li> <li>Brown</li> <li>Perez</li> <li>Long</li> <li>White</li>
This one grabs text from Wikipedia; not just useful, informative as well. And it’s nicely designed too.
The Cutting Ball Theater is a San Francisco-based company that develops productions of experimental new plays and re-visioned classics, with an emphasis on language and images. New works performed by Cutting Ball include Bay Area premieres by American playwrights Will Eno and Eugenie Chan. The company was founded in 1999 by Artistic Director Rob Melrose and Associate Artistic Director Paige Rogers. Cutting Ball was named “Best Theater Company” in San Francisco Bay Guardian’s 2010 “Best of the Bay” issue. Caaguazú is a department in Paraguay.
With a choice of 8 languages including essential special character sets, this produces a text block of 300 randomly selected words.
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One of the more elegantly functioning ipsums, this uses various novels as its source. A central slider sets the word count, and the text is automatically copied with a click.
And Ahab, he too was standing on his quarter-deck, shaggy and black, with a stubborn gloom; and as the two ships crossed each other’s wakes – one all jubilations for things passed, the other all forebodings as to things to come – their two captains in themselves impersonated the whole striking contrast of the scene. “Come aboard, come aboard!” cried the gay Bachelor’s commander, lifting a glass and a bottle in the air. “Hast seen the White Whale?” gritted Ahab in reply. “No; only heard of him; but don’t believe in him at all,” said the other good-humoredly. “Come aboard!” “Thou art too damned jolly. Sail on. Hast lost any men?” “Not enough to speak of – two islanders, that’s all – but come aboard, old hearty, come along.
In Spanish (Castilian), this one uses text from Don Quixote as its source.
En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lantejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí de lo más fino.
This one uses Markov Chains, which is really just a fancy way of saying it picks stuff at random from the selected source. The sources to choose from include Shakespeare, Frankenstein and US patents.
Persecuted and narrowed me, and even of her countenance, but they are to quit its hideous that is continually pass the world? We feel, I desolate state I was poisoned forever, and if he showed me, but by an obscure part of my unhallowed damps of my solitary chamber, or never. Farewell, Walton! Seek happiness or suspicious.” She died in life and make fear not hesitate to discover what region towards my loathsome person had relied on its orb was the words will not sink to act plays upon Elizabeth does, my friends. I recollected myself. It moved by what it may easily turned into the most hated. For some words are kind—they are banished; and, firm in the thunder were returning to make our voyage.
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Using Joyce’s modernist masterpiece as its source, this allows you to set the number of words, sentences or paragraphs. Not sure why Ulysses is misspelt though.
The air without is impregnated with raindew moisture, life essence celestial, glistening on Dublin stone there under starshiny coelum. God’s air, the Allfather’s air, scintillant circumambient cessile air. Breathe it deep into thee. By heaven, Theodore Purefoy, thou hast done a doughty deed and no botch! Thou art, I vow, the remarkablest progenitor barring none in this chaffering allincluding most farraginous chronicle.
Inspired by the TV series of the same name, this produces random text concerning crystal skulls and sky people, to a specified word count. (The SGC isn’t real, people!)
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This generates a selection of quotes from the Dark Knight films, based on criteria such as paragraph size and character. And it’s got a convenient copy button in its utility belt.
This town deserves a better class of criminal and I’m gonna give it to them. Tell your men they work for me now. This is my city. The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them. I will go back to Gotham and I will fight men Iike this but I will not become an executioner.
Arrested Development’s Bluth family members provide the text here. Refreshing the page loads a new set of quotes.
Well, yeah you’ve gotta lock that down. I am getting rid of this thing. It has caused me nothing but pride and self-respect. Can you believe that the only reason the club is going under is because it’s in a terrifying neighborhood? It walked on my pillow! I’ve got a nice hard cot with his name on it. You’d do that to your own brother? I said “cot.” Well, obviously, I’m not a big guy. I’m not a Carl Weathers, par example. Why are you squeezing me with your body? It’s a hug, Michael. I’m hugging you.
This generator uses lines from one of the best movies ever made. Ever.
Well, I figured, what the hell. Don’t worry. As long as you hit that wire with the connecting hook at precisely 88 miles per hour, the instance the lightning strikes the tower, everything will be fine. Uh, I think so. Hot, Jesus Christ, Doc. Jesus Christ, Doc, you disintegrated Einstein. You heard her she said get your meat hooks, off, uh please.
A nice, simple generator that uses lines from the ever popular Downton Abbey series, with sliders for paragraph number and sentences per paragraph.
Miss Dawson chattered, “No, don’t tell your mama.” Major Bryant infected the kitchen. The kitchen infected the upstairs. “Why hasn’t he done anything? He’s had the story and the witnesses,” observed Sir Philip Tapsell. Mr. Murray informed, “How are we supposed to find husbands if we’re never allowed to see any men?”
This provides up to 5 paragraphs of quotes from Fight Club. Watch out for bad language unless you know your client well, and don’t talk about it.
You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f***ing khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. What do you want? Wanna go back to the s*** job, f***in’ condo world, watching sitcoms? F*** you, I won’t do it. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don’t you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can’t think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it?
This provides text using either traditional lorem ipsum or lines from various TV shows and movies such as Futurama, Dexter and Star Wars.
Mars University Michelle, I don’t regret this, but I both rue and lament it. So, how ’bout them Knicks? I love you, buddy! I’m Santa Claus! I’m just glad my fat, ugly mama isn’t alive to see this day. A Clone of My Own Ooh, name it after me! No, just a regular mistake. It may comfort you to know that Fry’s death took only fifteen seconds, yet the pain was so intense, that it felt to him like fifteen years. And it goes without saying, it caused him to empty his bowels.
In its own words, ‘because life’s too short to stare at fake latin’, this instead uses intros from various TV shows.
There are those who believe that life here began out there… far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians or the Toltecs or the Mayans. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens. Fleeing from the Cylon Tyranny, the last Battlestar — Galactica — leads a rag-tag fugitive fleet on a lonely quest. A shining planet, known as Earth.
You can add as much or as little classic lorem ipsum as you like to this Game of Thrones mash-up.
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Uses lines from TV comedy The IT Crowd. Provides a page of 6 paragraphs. Refresh the page to generate new text. And now I have to go watch my favourite episode again…
Hello? I’ve had a bit of a tumble. Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? How long have you been disabled? Ten years? Ten years, and how did it happen? If that’s not a rude question. Acid? Hello? I’ve had a bit of a tumble. Shut up, do what I tell you, I’m not interested; these are just some of the things you’ll be hearing if you answer this ad. I’m an idiot and I don’t care about anyone but myself. P.S. No dogs! You mean 999. Yes, yes, I mean 999! Yeah, I know. That’s the American one, you berk! Oh my God. I didn’t even know Smarties made a cereal. They don’t. It’s just Smarties in a bowl with milk.
Random lines from Jurassic Park. Worth trying just for Samuel L Jackson when you click to generate.
“Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler. Welcome to Jurassic Park.” They turn and look at the view again. It’s beautiful vista, reminiscent of an African plain. A whole herd of dinosaurs crosses the plain, maybe a hundred that we see in a quick glance alone. “Ellie, they’re absolutely – - they’re moving in herds. They do move in herds!” “We were right!”
Quite a lot of effort has gone into the design of this compared to most ipsums. Fans of the Dude will definitely enjoy.
Lebowski ipsum yeah, well, right man, there are many facets to this, uh, you know, many interested parties. If I can find your money, man— what’s in it for the Dude? Walter, you can’t do that. These guys’re like me, they’re pacifists. Smokey was a conscientious objector. Obviously you’re not a golfer. The nail polish, Walter. Can we just rent it from you? …which would place him high in the runnin’ for laziest worldwide—but sometimes there’s a man… sometimes there’s a man.
Choose from a list of popular cartoons or sci-fi tv series as the text source. Or you can use classic lorem ipsum.
Dr. Rodney McKay: [after injecting himself with Wraith enzyme and beating up two guards] And that’s what happens when you back a brilliant scientist into a corner! Col. Steven Caldwell: [referring to Sheppard] You two are pretty close, aren’t you? Elizabeth Weir, Ph. D.: Well, we’ve been through a lot together. Yes.
Gives you up to 5 paragraphs of TV intros.
This is my boss, Jonathan Hart, a self-made millionaire, he’s quite a guy. This is Mrs H., she’s gorgeous, she’s one lady who knows how to take care of herself. By the way, my name is Max. I take care of both of them, which ain’t easy, ’cause when they met it was MURDER!
This has quite a variety of topics to choose from for your text, including TV, movies, people and ‘things’.
I’m voting for Pedro Sanchez, who do you think? It’s probably the best drawing I’ve ever done. But my lips hurt real bad! Are you guys having a killer time? heck yes I did! Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh! Uncle Rico, you guys are retarded! How long did it take you to grow that moustache?
Combine lines made famous by Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood and, um, Jim Carrey.
mister wayne, if you don’t want to tell me exactly what you’re doing, when i’m asked, i don’t have to lie. but don’t think of me as an idiot. it’s not the size mate, it’s how you use it. you are as precious to me as you were to your own mother and father. i swore to them that i would protect you, and i haven’t. that tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass. boxing is about respect. getting it for yourself, and taking it away from the other guy. i once heard a wise man say there are no perfect men. only perfect intentions. you know, your bobby dangler, giggle stick, your general-two-colonels, master of ceremonies… yeah, don’t be shy, let’s have a look. my lord! you’re a tripod. pull my finger! your were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off. bruce… i’m god. i did the same thing to gandhi, he didn’t eat for three weeks.
Words of wisdom from Starfleet’s favourite Number One. Just click ‘more’ until you have what you need.
Talk about going nowhere fast. They were just sucked into space. Our neural pathways have become accustomed to your sensory input patterns. When has justice ever been as simple as a rule book? Maybe we better talk out here; the observation lounge has turned into a swamp. The unexpected is our normal routine. And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once. Not if I weaken first. Congratulations – you just destroyed the Enterprise.
Choose between traditional lorem ipsum, or lines from Samuel L. Jackson movies. Slipsum lite is the m*****f***** -free option, for those of a more nervous disposition.
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay My vengeance upon thee.
Featuring lines from SpongeBob Squarepants. Unfortunately there seems to be a problem with the create more button, and the paragraph length doesn’t change much.
That’s it mister! you just lost your brain priviliges! squidward… i used your clarinet to unclog my toilet! don’t genius live in lamps? moss always points to civilization. nonsense, my vocabulary is infinitely expanding! you can’t fool me. i listen to public radio! it’s a vast swirling wonderland of sparkling white pleasure. let it fill your senses with cascading fluffy pillows of excitement, and comfort, as you’ve never felt before. did you hear about the goldfish that went bankrupted? now he’s a bronzefish.
Well, we all knew there had to be one, didn’t we?
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Text courtesy of Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson. Refresh the page to load new text.
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More TV intros.
The year is 1987 and NASA launches the last of Americas deep space probes. If you have a problem if no one else can help and if you can find them maybe you can hire The A-Team. Just two good ol’ boys Never meanin’ no harm. Beats all you’ve ever saw been in trouble with the law since the day they was born? It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood a beautiful day for a neighbor.
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Generates the text you need using lines from Joss Whedon’s various creations. Good, but needs more Firefly.
Occasionally, I’m callous and strange. Start with the part where Jayne gets knocked out by a ninety-pound girl, ’cause I don’t think that’s ever getting old. Love keeps her in the air when she ought to fall down. See if you were really a witch, you’d do a spell to escape. It’s getting eerie, what’s this cheery singing all about? I hate to bring up our imminent arrest during your crazy time, but we gotta move.
With this generator, you can mix lorem ipsum text with either random text or ‘Grantln’ – Bavarian swear words. Apparently some are ‘quite hearty’. They must be: Chrome is too shy to translate them!
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This produces a page of random text made up from slang used by ‘bogans’, the Australian equivalent of rednecks, spides or chavs. Apparently.
Flat out like a roo when gutful of christmas. Cab sav gutful of struth. Lets get some chewie no dramas she’ll be right blue. wobbly mate lets get some flick. Mad as a brass razoo with trent from punchy chokkie. We’re going waggin’ school to we’re going corker.
A down home mix of hillbilly speech with a peppering of Latin to suit.
The buggies and the hacks all formed in line. Coming down the track, weevil in bed with a hog-eyed man what I had done all you rounders has been the ruin of me the salt, salt sea steel driving crew. Hellhounds on my track home sweet. Traveling through this world of woe. The buggies and the hacks all formed in line poor boy and I ain’t comin’ back.
This is Kiwi as in from New Zealand, not as in the hairy fruit.
The first prize for preparing the hungi goes to… Spot, the Telecom dog and his thermo-nuclear Bell Bird, what a stink buzz. Bro, whitebait fritters are really random good with pretty suss stubbies, aye. You have no idea how sweet as our epic marmite shortages were aye. Every time I see those crook cookie times it’s like Rangitoto Island all over again aye, reckon ya got a sheep loose in you’re top paddock mate.
Get up to five paragraphs of Maine dialect.
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As many paragraphs as you choose of all things to do with Melbourne, Australia.
Melb the rebels, victoria street dodgies running the tan lygon street spruikers rooftop bars cate blanchette, hipsters Rod Laver graffiti mamasita, myki queues brunswick st hippy a macaron connoisseur formula one grand prix temper trap, richmond tigers fairy penguins prahran hipsters.
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Some random songs, jokes and phrases from Newfoundland to liven up proceedings.
I’se da b’y dat copies de text and I’se da b’y dat pastes her! I’se da b’y dat mockups da page and takes it home to Liza. Hip-yer-partner Sally Tibbo! Hip-yer-partner Sally Brown! Fogo, Twillingate, Morton’s Harbour, All around the circle! Sods and rinds to cover your flake, cake and tea for supper!
Get up to 11 paragraphs of what are supposedly to very English words and phrases, or at least what Australians think is English. Should include the phrase ‘Won the Ashes, again’.
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This site is in French, but the generated text is in the Alsatian dialect, which seems to be somewhere between French and German. Choose from plain text, formatted paragraphs and navigation lists among other options.
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Five paragraphs of random Yorkshire ramblings. Best enjoyed with a pint of bitter and some hot buttered pikelets.
How much where there’s muck there’s brass gerritetten tell thi summat for nowt is that thine. Be reet tell thi summat for nowt cack-handed nah then where there’s muck there’s brass. Tha knows by ‘eck appens as maybe tha daft apeth a pint ‘o mild. Soft lad. Gerritetten. Is that thine shu’ thi gob appens as maybe. Sup wi’ ‘im ah’ll learn thi is that thine. What’s that when it’s at ooam mardy bum cack-handed eeh any rooad. A pint ‘o mild breadcake. Ah’ll box thi ears bobbar any rooad where’s tha bin bobbar. Shu’ thi gob tintintin cack-handed where’s tha bin michael palin shurrup.
This randomizes song lyrics by Beck to create the specified number of paragraphs.
’cause the wind that is blowing and the love that is breathin’ clap hands, clap, clap hands everyone’s out to get you, mutherfukka frozen dreams, dead machines gather all your worldly jewels goddam cheesecake in my jeans! hookers hug illegal dads in a desert alone just to make a sound so let’s cruise some like to roll in the mud and laugh standing on the last legs there’s a destination a little up the road throwing equipment up against themselves with witches and the dead you gamble your soul away.
For some thought provoking and inspirational placeholder text, this one is powered by quotes from the Dalai Lama.
It is time to develop a big ‘US’, rather than the old ‘us and them’ that lets us to exploit and bully others on a personal level, and on an international level to wage war. The East must see the West as part of ‘US’ and the North must come to feel that the South is part of ‘US’. We should include the entire world in our concern, wishing all humanity well. If we can do that there will be no room for hatred, thinking of others as enemies. And we will achieve this through education, not through prayer.
In Portugese, an homage to Brazilian comedian Antonio Carlos Bernardes Gomes.
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The requested number of paragraphs are collated from various speeches given by President Obama.
That is true genius of this nation. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less – because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy. All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort – a sustained effort – to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings.
It’s funny, but scary, just how dumb this guy is. Still, at least this way Mittens is doing something useful for folk who actually work for a living, and pay their taxes.
Something strange is happening to me. I tasted a beer and tried a cigarette once as a wayward teenager. I never did it again. I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. I’m also unemployed. Corporations are people too, my friend. No one’s ever asked to see my birth certificate. I was liberal… but I was conservative as well.
Cosmic. There’s an annoying banner across the middle of the page, but it doesn’t seem to interfere with selecting the text.
How far away? Across the centuries the only home we’ve ever known! At the edge of forever rings of Uranus, the carbon in our apple pies, the sky calls to us, a still more glorious dawn awaits white dwarf Tunguska event dispassionate extraterrestrial observer totam rem aperiam Vangelis Hypatia Tunguska event? Another world hearts of the stars made in the interiors of collapsing stars?
Select a candidate and see what they had to say for themselves.
People need to hear what I have to say. People need to hear what I have to say. People need to hear what I have to say. I think there are a lot of other allies in the region we could have worked with. I’m going to be the nominee. In Washington DC 800 babies are left in dumpsters a year. I would not have intervened. I’m not a natural leader.
This produces the chosen number of paragraphs of meat with or without a side order of Cicero. Also available as an iOS app, jQuery plugin, WordPress plugin and JSON. Not suitable for vegetarians.
Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet turducken tongue meatloaf pork belly. Pork loin tail meatball leberkas boudin spare ribs doner pork chop. Beef boudin shoulder shank filet mignon short ribs. Ball tip ham hock shank t-bone fatback, prosciutto beef shankle pancetta boudin. Rump biltong kielbasa shankle andouille ribeye pancetta drumstick shank ball tip. Bresaola pastrami turducken, sausage meatball corned beef tri-tip brisket strip steak jowl ball tip capicola shank pork loin shoulder.
Inspired by various food and drink based ipsums, this allows you to produce a combination of them, and throws in a dash of lorem for spice. A bit more thought has gone into its appearance than some others.
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Similar to other food based generators, this features sweets and desserts. Too much may make your teeth hurt.
Caramels bonbon fruitcake ice cream toffee. Oat cake dragée halvah cupcake pie fruitcake wafer marzipan. Lemon drops lollipop sweet roll topping sweet roll lemon drops cheesecake cotton candy. Gummies gummies caramels jelly beans jelly beans cupcake cake.
For those who don’t believe in using Bacon Ipsum.
Scallion pignut ceylon spinach ricebean epazote velvet bean orache chinese artichoke. Spinach, good king henry winter melon tomato komatsuna. Mizuna greens soko mizuna greens kuka. Sweet pepper pak choy cauliflower prussian asparagus azuki bean sweet pepper tigernut yardlong bean. Jícama bok choy – soybean gobo brussels sprout beet greens new zealand spinach, ti radish.
For those who love mother nature, but are just a little less hardcore than the vegans.
Amaranth epazote garbanzo tigernut soko sorrel kombu kakadu plum. Rock melon chicory cucumber pea potato parsley black-eyed pea coriander plantain broccoli cress caulie rock melon fennel scallion. Catsear beet greens cucumber garlic radish chard kakadu plum kale tigernut winter purslane chickpea fennel komatsuna black-eyed pea turnip radicchio.
It looks a bit fishy.
Longjaw mudsucker x-ray tetra, daggertooth pike conger rice eel snook spotted dogfish regal whiptail catfish. Rasbora spearfish pirate perch clown loach brotula topminnow Sacramento splittail? Sea bream; climbing catfish Devario slender mola jewel tetra burma danio, cobbler, coelacanth Lost River sucker? Zebra pleco bluefin tuna treefish loach minnow, “zebra shark trunkfish spiny-back ladyfish.”
One of the better looking of the fun text generators, just hope the final copy isn’t going to be this cheesy.
Manchego cottage cheese halloumi. Mascarpone brie airedale the big cheese camembert de normandie stinking bishop lancashire mozzarella. Airedale cottage cheese bavarian bergkase roquefort manchego when the cheese comes out everybody’s happy gouda cheese triangles. Paneer cow.
Choose up to 20 paragraphs, and three paragraph sizes. There is an auto copy button and break or paragraph tags can be added.
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Gives you as much made up business buzzword filled nonsense as you can take. Marketing managers will love it.
Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI.
Choose the number and size of paragraphs you want of stoned cat related text.
Catnipsum dolor sit amet there’s a kitten on my head catnip angora sam pussy cat, pussy cat patch simba catnip. Rolly rolly clawing persian felix patch hairball catatonic. Clawing roll in the grass jump miaow climb the curtain mmmeoww cat got your tounge little ball of fur. Kittens fighting on the chairs hair ball misty purr purr purr nose. Chase balls of string european shorthair alley cat miaowww a cat has nine lives where have u been.
Very simply generates however many paragraphs of comic characters’ names you require.
Fixer curse war machine exodus shrinking violet luke campbell she-thing arclight crimson dynamo angel scarlet witch kid flash, mohinder suresh cogliostro. Black abbott riddler the cape toad. Darkside iron man raven black abbott man-wolf, atlas toxin captain atom. Giganta jolt adam monroe penance.
I’ve been reliably informed by male friends that the random text created here is in English.
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If you tried the cut up technique using a copy of Vogue, this is what you’d get.
Shoe chelsea boot grunge Topshop white Converse white shirt. Paris relaxed casio motif washed out Missoni A.P.C. Céline la marinière t-shirt. Bag ‘N’ Noun dress printed jacket oversized sweatshirt playsuit Weekday rose gold preppy leather shorts. Copenhagen metal collar necklace loafers plaited strong eyebrows Prada mint oversized tulle center part.
Built by supporters of men’s health charity, Movember, this sports more moustaches than the Reform Club upon Phileas Fogg’s return.
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Who knew there were quite so many art movements?
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Choose sentence length, sentences per paragraph and number of paragraphs, and shiver me timbers, you’ve got dummy pirate text.
Dance the hempen jig holystone parrel Letter of Marque keel transom fluke port league aye. Long boat salmagundi Davy Jones’ Locker Cat o’nine tails tender crimp gally broadside barkadeer knave. Me galleon American Main lanyard measured fer yer chains barkadeer keel quarter ye clap of thunder.
From Bender to Bishop through positronic pathways, assemble however many paragraphs required of all things robotics.
Current robot saw dexterity pulley rotary energy source camera. Energy source worm gear trigger point Autobots mechanical 4LOM chain LaGrange multipliers gear power singularity solar order yaw. Microchip oil arm worm gear normalize LaGrange multipliers hybrid autonomous gear Speedy no disassemble realtime. Inverse kinematics aluminum bolt dynamics joint motion device motor light emitting diode collision sensor memory reach normalize mechanical interlock pneumatic.
A nicely designed page, which gives you dummy text using words to do with SEO. Will you choose white hat or black hat…
SEO Ipsum javascript filter bing bot seomoz densities link building http cms google bot robot aaron wall duplicate mike king densities canonicalization traffic sem jane copland duplicate directories 200 meta tag webmaster url blogroll anchor text jonathon colman 302 adsense browser linkbait http, rss http density branko rihtman cms open site explorer density rich snippet
This one could be stress relieving if you have a ***** of a client, provided they never see it of course. Helpfully, there is the slightly safer ‘Filmdub’ option.
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Choose between English random text, French random text from several sources serious and humorous, and Latin words, lists or paragraphs.
David se rappelait de ce programme mélangeant deux anciennes technologies. Il s’en souvenait très bien, cinq années de travail acharné pour réaliser un vieux rêve d’enfant un peu solitaire. Il voulait un ami et il avait trouvé en l’informatique la possibilité d’avoir cet ami. Un ami capable de réfléchir vite, exempt de sentiments.
Gives you 6 paragraphs of text, use as much or as little as you need. The best thing about it is the gansterized Latinæ…
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Using that lovely lurid green on black colour scheme that may well be the reason so many programmers in the 80s wore glasses, this gives you the requested paragraphs in ‘command line’.
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Making Latin an undead language. Covers the gore range from George Romero to Peter Jackson.
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So cool it hurts.
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Uses various social media services, such as Twitter and Digg, for source text, as well as classic lorem. Text is available in English, French, Spanish and Dutch.
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With over a hundred word list topics to choose from, some more tasteful than others, this could create some intriguing text. The sample here is Seinfeld episodes.
The pony remark the revenge the heart attack the pen the parking garage the suicide the good samaritan the virgin the outing the non-fat yogurt the conversion the stand-in the jimmy the fusilli jerry the engagement the maestro the secret code the seven the butter shave the strong box the wizard the maid. The seinfeld chronicles the statue the café the keys the pitch the outing the old man the puffy shirt the stand-in the kiss hello the engagement the shower head the bizarro jerry the susie the serenity now the maid the finale (part 2). The baby shower the suicide the smelly car the puffy shirt the non-fat yogurt the stand-in the pledge drive the switch the invitations the fatigues the finale (part 2).
Judging by the options, this one appears to have been built by a French speaking, Manga loving connoisseur of Scandinavian beverages.
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Creates a nonsense essay, hard to distinguish from some real ones.
“Class is unattainable,” says Foucault; however, according to Long[1] , it is not so much class that is unattainable, but rather the failure, and some would say the dialectic, of class. However, Debord uses the term ‘semioticist subcultural theory’ to denote not, in fact, appropriation, but neoappropriation. The primary theme of the works of Gaiman is the difference between sexual identity and truth. But Marx suggests the use of pretextual discourse to analyse class.
If nothing on this list satisfies your lorem ipsum needs you might try some of these: Tweepsum, a test twitter feed of lorem ipsum; LittleIpsum, an OSX app that lives on the menu bar; Lorem Ipsum Post Generator, a WordPress plugin that creates dummy posts; WP Dummy Content, another WordPress plugin that will create pages and posts, which are easily deleted when no longer needed; j-HTML Ipsum, a jQuery plugin — removing the plugin when you’re finished with it removes the text it has created; Lorem.io, another jQuery plugin; Lorem Ipsum Generator, a Chrome extension; Dummy Lipsum, a Firefox add-on from lipsum.com.
As a last resort why not make your own? PHP Lorem Ipsum is a php script to make your own ipsum generator. There are hundreds of great possibilites yet to be made: Goonie Ipsum, 24 Ipsum, Deep Space Ipsum, Jaws Ipsum, Twin Peaksum.
Do you use a dummy text generator? Have we left out your favorite? Let us know in the comments.
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A startup that makes 3-D glasses stands out, in part, by including Steve Mann on its team.
Steve Mann, a pioneer in the field of wearable computing, has been touting the benefits of head-mounted computers for decades. Now the University of Toronto professor is also lending his weight and experience to a company hoping to loosen Google Glass’s grip on the nascent market with a different take on computer glasses that merges the real and the virtual.
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