woo! I've intermittently wondered about that, and you've just spurred me into looking out some information on it. It's the standard semi-gibberish latin that a few programs use as dummy text. But I'd not realised just HOW standard - turns out this has been going for 500 years. From http://www.lipsum.com/
'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book....1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.'
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I've intermittently wondered about that, and you've just spurred me into looking out some information on it. It's the standard semi-gibberish latin that a few programs use as dummy text. But I'd not realised just HOW standard - turns out this has been going for 500 years. From http://www.lipsum.com/
'Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book....1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC.'