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Thursday, 25 September 2003

Latin Roots
Mood:

chillin'
Now Playing: Nuggets volume 2
Ever wonder where all of that dummy text you see in user guides and publishing documents comes from? You know... "Dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet," and so on.

Well, this site has all of the answers. Turns out it's actually real Latin, it has its roots in an ancient document, and it has survived four centuries in the publishing industry. Who knew?

Posted by michael calore at 1:15 PM PDT

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Friday, 26 September 2003 - 7:32 AM PDT

Name: elveez

thanks man! i love it!

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Wednesday, 3 December 2003 - 4:26 PM PST

Name: Kiarra Parker
Home Page: http://geocities.com/nascool2000/

Nuggets?!

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I first encountered that on microsoft powerpoint. Ugh. Irritating.

Thanks monkeymike, I just added to my vocabulary! greeking, lipsum, 'techno babble' (http://www.duckisland.com/GreekMachine.asp , a site found while exploring lipsum.com's words of wisdom...)

that has to count for something!

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