I didn’t have my camera with me, but I did take a few shots with my iPhone, utilizing the HDR functionality. This is my first foray into HDR, but I did like how the eyeball shot came out – very other-worldly.

10. Fillerama

http://chrisvalleskey.com/fillerama
When you go to the Fillerama page, you are immediately prompted with copy-able filler text from the popular television show Futureama. It offers both HTML and normal versions of the text to copy. If you don’t like the initial version, though, you can change the settings for number of paragraphs, lists, headers, or even choose from a different show (Doctor Who, Dexter, Monty Python, The Simpsons, and Star Wars).

9. Gangsta Lorem Ipsum

http://lorizzle.nl
The Gangsta Lorem Ipsum is simple and dirrty. When you come to the page, your only option is to click the “generate gangsta loremizzle my ippzle dummy text” button. When you do so, six random blocks of gangsta filler text appear. Click the button again to re-randomize.

8. Swearem Ipsum

http://swearemipsum.com
This ipsum generator is on the NSFW side of things. It allows you to create a custom number of paragraphs of latin with swears, all swears, or filmdub (what would be the product of a censored film of all swearing).

7. Hipster Ipsum

http://hipsteripsum.me
Hipster Ipsum gives you your desired number of paragraphs of random pretentious and smug hipster speak. Even the ads are labelled “PBR Money.”

6. Samuel L Ipsum

http://slipsum.com
Although very NSFW, the Samuel L. Ipsum is a great homage to Pulp Fiction, with the text, buttons, and design all in line. You can choose your number of paragraphs, choose your ************* header tag, and then “Generate the *****.” A downvote goes to the fact that an ad for the site gets added to the text that is generated.

5. Vegan Ipsum

http://veganipsum.com
The Vegan Ipsum provides filler text of vegan vegetables. This page is fast. Also, the text is very random – you will never get the same block of text twice. You are locked into 1-5 paragraphs, but you have options for either English of Linnaean names of veggies.

4. Space Ipsum

http://spaceipsum.com
Space Ipsum is a simple ipsum generator where the only two options are number of paragraphs and if you want to include HTML tags. It will then give you the desired amount of filler text built with a variety of space quotes from the years. “That’s one small step for [a] man; one giant leap for mankind.”

3. Fillerati

http://www.fillerati.com
Fillerati allows you to get public domain filler text from the Project Gutenburg. Source materials include Moby Dick, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and others. There are choices for different HTML tags like p, h1, li, or just plain text, and you can easily choose the number of paragraphs and copy the text in a single click.

2. Cupcake Ipsum

http://cupcakeipsum.com
Cupcake Ipsum is simple and cute. It has options for number of paragraphs, length of paragraphs, and you can even give your text some ‘love.’

1. Bacon Ipsum

http://baconipsum.com
Bacon Ipsum comes in with the number one spot on the list because of its many features above and beyond a simple lorem ipsum generator. The homepage will give you want you want – random meaty words in the number of paragraphs you decide. You can even decide to “Start with ‘Bacon ipsum dolor sit amet …’.” But this site has so much more. It has an iOS app. It has an Android app. It even has an API for all you developers out there to use this meaty lorem ipsum text in your own applications. It even has a sister site Backonmockup, a place to get filler images of bacon! Check out the “Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator” today.

I love Imo’s pizza. It is so tasty and delicious. If you are interested in the cheese that Imo’s uses to make its wonderful pizza, check out the post I wrote over on Kitchen Hacks last month.

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Good Luck!

If you’re like me, it’s hard to forget the muscle memory of typing “facebook.com” into the address bar of my web browser. Because of this, I use use the Windows Hosts File to block my browser (and in fact, the entire OS) from accessing Facebook.

To do this, open Windows Notepad in “Run as Administrator” mode. Open this file (you may need to select “All Files” in the Open dialog box):

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

At the end of the file, add the following lines to the file:

# Block Facebook
127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 *.facebook.com

Save the file, and then restart your computer. After a restart, going to Facebook in your browser should not work. This method has an added benefit that Facebook Like Buttons on sites across the internet will not show up, disabling the tracking that Facebook does that is enabled by these buttons.

That 2004 North American Vexillological Association Poll also lists some of the worst flags. The Pocatello, ID flag, for example, is number 150.

Frankly this post is mostly for my own future use, and for people who can’t find the answer elsewhere.

If you have created a custom page template based on the “Sidebar Page” Twentyevleven page template, you are likely having layout issues derving from the fact that the “singular” class is getting applied to the body tag of your page when it shouldn’t be. Here’s how to fix that.

Simply add the following code to your functions.php file, replacing the name of your template php file

<?php
add_filter('body_class', 'adjust_body_class', 20, 2);
function adjust_body_class($wp_classes, $extra_classes) {
if (is_page_template('page-name-replace-here.php')) {
foreach($wp_classes as $key => $value) {
if ($value == 'singular') {
unset($wp_classes[$key]);
}
}
}
return array_merge($wp_classes, (array) $extra_classes );
}
?>

Good luck!

I recently moved to St. Louis, MO. More specifically, I moved to University City, one of the hip inner-ring suburbs that was so named for Washington University’s presence in the city.

I’m living near Lewis Park, a nice little park where families go to let their toddlers run around and adults go to enjoy the pond.

I found a cool statue of a fish on a bicycle!

I will post some more St. Louis photography here in the next few weeks/months. If you like the first image by Thomas Hawk, check out many of his cool Arch Photos.

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The second snow of the year in Chicago.