The DNC site seems tampered. Is it just me?

[JWS]

http://democrats.org/a/2005_elections/#

It looks as if somebody switched allt heir descriptions to German or somethin. Am I the only one 'who's getting this?

[Mass]

1. It works fine for me ( on an XP/Firefox platform)

[JWS]

2. none of this?

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec semper. Donec arcu pede, ullamcorper et, sollicitudin vitae, varius id, urna. Etiam ut lorem eu quam accumsan tincidunt. Praesent massa. Duis scelerisque blandit mauris. Ut eu nulla. Suspendisse ante. Nam lobortis semper eros. Nullam in mi ac risus vehicula volutpat.

[NYCGirl]

8. That's called "greeking". It's often used in a publication (or a webpage)

as a placeholder for text coming later.

Edited to add: But I'm not seeing it on the page you linked.

[JWS]

12. So maybe they're working with the programming until they figure things ot?

n/t

[Mass]

14. It works fine here.

[Mass]

17. It is linked to IE - It works fine for me with Firefox and not with IE.

[JWS]

15. We're getting it on IE, maybe it's jsut for the particulor browser for now

[rumpel]

18. Latin

[Bluzmann57]

3. Something's wacked out

There is some kind of non English stuff on there about the Gubernatorial candidates. Whether it's tampered or not, I'll leave that up to others to figure out. I am not that smart.

[JWS]

6. wonder if it's worth notifying them about it. n/t

[NYCGirl]

4. Fine for me on Mac OSX using Firefox. Maybe your browser is GOP?

:evilgrin:

[JWS]

9. IE maybe?

Dunno... I'm at my school's comps, so maybe it's them

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

5. I see it too on IE

:scared:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

7. Same here.

[yy4me]

10. I believe its Latin, wish I could translate.

Anyone out there with some time? This took a lot of time, must be words of wisdom! Any bets?

[NYCGirl]

11. As I said above, it's just gobbledygook called "greeking." It's a design

thing.

More info:
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. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.

[wake.up.america]

16. Ich bin de Meinung daß alles in Ordnung ist. Ich sehe nichts!

Was hast du gesehen?

[truebrit71]

20. Ja, alles ist in Ordnung, aber du bist ein show-off..

Ich liebe dich.
Wo ist der shitter?
Who came second?
Du bist ein sehr grossen arshloche.
Voulez-vous couchez avec mois?

[wake.up.america]

29. Have a nice day.

Je vais me coucher et dormir.






"Ja, alles ist in Ordnung, aber du bist ein show-off.."
Posted by truebrit71

Ich liebe dich.
Wo ist der shitter?
Who came second?
Du bist ein sehr grossen arshloche.
Voulez-vous couchez avec mois?

[truebrit71]

30. Bloody show off....

;-)

[foo_bar]

24. Cicero

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 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. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

http://www.lipsum.com/

edit for translation:

"No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself, because it is pain, but because occasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business is will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains."

http://www.loremipsum.de/de_finibus_et_malorum.html

[madfloridian]

13. Latin? LOL

Here is what is in the Tim Kaine section:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec semper. Donec arcu pede, ullamcorper et, sollicitudin vitae, varius id, urna. Etiam ut lorem eu quam accumsan tincidunt. Praesent massa. Duis scelerisque blandit mauris. Ut eu nulla. Suspendisse ante. Nam lobortis semper eros. Nullam in mi ac risus vehicula volutpat.

I have no clue, as I forgot all my Latin stuff years ago...just a few phrases remain in memory.

Look likes Latin, sort of. Very weird.

[rumpel]

23. Esperanto...

:)

[wake.up.america]

27. This is generated text. Macromedia has an extension which creates this...

among other possibilities of creating this text.

[Carolab]

19. It sure looks like Greeking to me.

Someone is using this as a "text placeholder" while they are completing the copy for each candidate.

[snowbear]

22. It's all whacked out on my end too....

Too strange! :wtf:

[applegrove]

21. Yes - they have much to change on the site on an election day. So

the get ready for the changes and then they just slip them in quickly once the data (election results & stories) become available.

Often times the database is the easiest way to move new data onto a webpage so the site is set up, linked to a database, and you don't have to touch the webpage again. So the site is set up, linked to the database, and you don't have to twig the site as the data changes, you just input the data into the database like you are doing "data entry". "Much quicker than changing the "web page design".

[snowbear]

25. Any local in DC that can call them?

Of do they close in a few minutes?

DNC number in DC is.. 202-863-8000

[damntexdem]

26. I don't know if it's just you. Who else might have tampered with it?

Seriously, it looks fine.

[Mass]

28. No it is linked to IE. I have the same pb with IE but not with Firefox

[Zynx]

31. Latin. That's a good one.

Kudos to whoever did that. It was creative.

[Cookie wookie]

32. It's Greek type for me on a Mac on Safari

Also using Explorer. Concur that it's the type used by graphic designers as a place holder. Looks like they've been hacked.