Most of the writing on this site is by Gene Mirabelli. The site is only partially resurrected and is still rather a wreck. The web architect has been building websites since the beginning of the web and has forgotten a lot of html coding along the way. Mirabelli is an old writer (born in 1931) and there’s evidence that he’s also the builder of this thing. If Critical Pages ever gets put together, there’ll be more here. Or maybe not and the site will be gone.
And now for some fake Latin to act as a place holder and fill out the page. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur –Wait, wait! The Latin placeholder text is real Latin, but it’s been scrambled so it makes no sense. Type setters or web page designers who want to compose a sample page often don’t want to use a text that makes sense, because that would distract the viewer from assessing the overall layout of the page, and the layout is what the designer is trying to sell. The Lorem ipsum passage has been around long enough for people to wonder what the unscrambled passage said and who wrote it.
Richard McClintock, a classics scholar, noticing the rare Latin word consectetur, found the unscrambled source of Lorem ipsum in De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (About the Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero. Now you know. — adipiscing elit. Phasellus metus lectus, ullamcorper vel risus at, blandit aliquam risus. Donec interdum auctor mi sit amet tristique. Vivamus condimentum ante tellus, eget imperdiet velit placerat in.
“At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga. Et harum quidem rerum facilis est et expedita distinctio. Nam libero tempore, cum soluta nobis est eligendi optio cumque nihil impedit quo minus id quod maxime placeat facere possimus, omnis voluptas assumenda est, omnis dolor repellendus.