If you’ve done any sort of user interface software development, you’re probably familiar with the use of “lorem ipsum”. The basic idea is that you have a page that will, eventually, display some word content; however, at the moment, you don’t have any of that content available. So, to at least get an idea of what that content will eventually look like on your page, you fill in the space with a bunch of nonsense words and sentences.

The internet makes available a number of “lorem ipsum” word generators, so it’s pretty easy to fill in your content holes with filler words when needed.

(As an aside, many years ago, I attended a security conference in Las Vegas. The main stage for the keynote speakers was huge and decked out like a concert hall:

A shot of the stage at the conference I attended

One of the keynote speakers was enumerating all the security breaches over the last year with a montage of images from news websites relaying all the events, each crime made clear in bold headlines. The funny part was, on most of the slides, if you tried to read the parts of the stories under the headlines, the text was simply lorem ipsum text! I wish I would have had the foresight to taken a photo!)

As with all things on the internet, there are many great and hilarious takes on lorem ispum. One of my favorites is Bacon Ipsum, which is a pork-ladened interpretation of the concept. If you find yourself in need of some nonsense text, check out this article that lists 25 great lorem ipsum generators.

One generator I don’t see listed there but I do use frequently is Corporate Ipsum, which injects all the latest corporate speak and buzzwords into your text. Even if you have no need for fake content like this, you’ll at least get a good laugh from these.