Excellent birds

... etc. CBS News Sunday Morning yesterday had a lovely piece about Charley Harper, whose name had been unknown to me but whose illustrations I recall seeing with some frequency when I was a kid. I'm sure that, lost amongst the detritus of my basement, are some books or periodicals with his images. Luckily, Todd Oldham has made it his mission to accumulate Harper's artwork into a volume ... and apparently into his own designs (presumably $ to go to Harper's family) ... and apparently some of it for La-Z-Boy, which I would not have guessed. (Crumbs, I can't find the image that I had in mind. If I find it in future, I'll pop it in here.)

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Who knew that there was such a thing? In fact, there are more than one Lorem Ipsum generators, and here's one. And here's the stuff you get:

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Supposedly random Latinesque nonsensicle words used as placeholders for copy editors and graphic designers, it's been used for years -- maybe for a hella lotta years; Cecil Adams says that the text comes rather from Cicero, more or less. I'd always vaguely wondered about all that stuff, so the fact that you can request as much or as little generated semi-fake Latin and get it in an instant just cracks me up, somehow.