[Writingworkshop] Lorem ipsum monotonectally evisculate

[Adam Holland]

"He took his vortal sword in hand/  long time the manxome foe he sought
Then evisculated he / by the Tum-Tum tree
and optimized a while, in thought

"We have now sunk to a depth where the restatement of the obvious is the
first duty of intelligent men."



On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Neale Morison <
neale.morison at g2microsystems.com> wrote:

> Our marketing department just sent around a mockup
>  of the new web design, and on one page was the following text:
>
>  Interactively communicate prospective convergence through
>  resource-leveling process improvements. Interactively grow leveraged
>  partnerships before orthogonal vortals. Holistically implement magnetic
>  e-commerice vis-a-vis intermandated testing procedures.
>
>  Synergistically restore worldwide services before client-centric
>  meta-services. Objectively coordinate clicks-and-mortar platforms and
>  holistic functionalities. Quickly optimize stand-alone relationships
> before
>  turnkey infomediaries.
>
>  Quickly mesh quality networks without professional metrics. Distinctively
>  evisculate open-source core-competencies and backward-compatible users.
>
>  I was impressed, and I wished I had said that. Then I wondered vaguely if
>  evisculate was a real word, and looked it up, and found this:
>
>  http://css-tricks.com/examples/FadeOutBottom/
>
>  So the two thousand year old lorem ipsum text has a serious challenger for
>  mindless fill. There are some great words in there: monotonectally,
>  disintermediate, vortal. Which is a sort-of-real word. It's a vertical
> industry portal.
>
>  And from the distribution of the words and phrases, I'm fairly certain
>  that this material is automatically generated using a vocabulary file and
>  syntax templates. I believe this to be the work of a Perl programmer,
> whose
>  effort has been fed into the off-Broadway web design mainstream via a
>  series of fortuitous events.
>
> --
> Neale Morison <neale.morison at g2microsystems.com>
>
> neale at nealemorison.com
> http://www.nealemorison.com
> 0417 661 427
>
>
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