This is as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

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Tired of boring old lorem ipsum? Decided that you’re not a classical scholar? Aquarion notes the Malevole text generator, which has cool texts. In particular (and this was clearly the most fun bit, identifying them), it has text from:

  • The A-Team
  • The Littlest Hobo
  • The Fall Guy
  • Knight Rider
  • Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
  • Mysterious Cities of Gold
  • Barnaby the Bear
  • Hart to Hart
  • Ulysses
  • Eighty Days Around The World (was this called “Willy Fogg” or similar?)
  • Thundercats
  • Top Cat
  • Stop the Pigeon
  • Hong Kong Phooey
  • B.J. and the Bear (?)
  • The Dukes of Hazzard
    That was fun.

Comments

Jim

Isn’t the whole point of lorem ipsum text that it’s gibberish, meaning you won’t get distracted by it?

PS: The preview seems to be one character behind what I am typing, and it treats new paragraphs differently to how they appear in the final comment.

sil

The one char behind thing is a longstanding bug that I never get enough tuits to fix. One day. And the new paras thing is because textile.js and textile.py don’t quite do the same things. Once again, a thing that I’ll fix one day. But thanks for the reports; more incentive for me to actually get some of this stuff fixed!

Paul

“Thunder, thunder, thundercats, Ho! Thundercats are on the move, Thundercats are loose. Feel the magic, hear the roar, Thundercats are loose. Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thunder, thunder, thunder, Thundercats! Thundercats!”

Pure class!

Paul

I don’t know why I’m posting comments twice, btw. I’m not being deliberately annoying.

sil

Paul: I was going to mail you and ask about that. :)

sparkes

So now instead of the “it’s all greek to me” joke when I show clients something I want signing off I now get “Is my company a joke to you!”

Bloody clients, I think it’s boring old ipsum for me ;-)

Jim

Is it possible Paul is double-clicking the submit button? No disrespect intended, I’ve seen a lot of otherwise experienced computer users double-clicking their way through the web.

Oops, it seems I’ve triggered another Textile bug – is there any way of actually posting what I want? This is one of the annoyances of HTML substitutes – real markup has proper escaping.

Jim

Oh, it seems I didn’t trigger the bug after all. It was happening in the preview. For debug purposes, the bug was two hyphenated words in a single sentence.

This-is a-test.

Yup, that shows up in the preview with “is a” being striken-through.

sil

I do need to fix the submit button; I saw a neat trick to do that where you just assign form.submit to an anonymous function that returns false. Clever.
As regards, the other stuff, the reason that my textile.js script has never been released is that it’s got all these lurking bugs in it :)

Gary

Surely that’s exactly why you should release it? If it’s useful (and I’m certain it is), bugs get noticed and fixed for you :)

Paul

This is a guarenteed single click of the “Post Comment” button. Let’s see.

Paul

I’m now testing from a different browser. Sorry to mangle up the comments with this rubbish

Paul

I’ve just disabled the most likely offending extension in Firefox.

Paul

Ah! Slogger was to blame. It create a log of your browsing history. Clearly, it also does a bit more than that. I wasn’t using it really, so I’ve removed it now.

I wasn’t going mad after all.

panthro

www.eyeofthundera.net for a good fan site :)

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