Matt McT is a designer and programmer living in Los Angeles. He works with local clients and with remote clients spanning the globe. His writing and perspectives come from over 10 years in the trenches of digital design, web design, and web application technology. When he's not developing websites or branding companies, he's writing music, working on motion image projects, or doing yoga.
If you are involved with making/approving website content and technology, you're probably quite familiar with "Laurem ipsum." However, if you are not a designer or front-end geek, you might not know just how many times one must go grab a chunk or two of ramdom text while working.
Fake text (or filler text, or just laurem ipsum) is necessary content to have on the page when testing that page. Especially when testing on multiple devices. So naturally, the interwebs responded to such a mundane repetitive activity, with really cool, fun, and clever ways to add a little flair to modernize the Latin-based laurem ipsum text we stare at for hours.
Here's a list of some of my favorites: