A daft little thing based on an in joke in my old team. Tweak the URL to create your own. no, more now! $( document ).ready(function() { var words=["errors", "loop", "gin", "electricity", "chocolate", "oiled wrestlers", "trees", "synergy", "woodlice", "addenda", "aircraft", "alumni", "analysis", "antenna", "antithesis", "appendices", "axis", "bacilli", "bacteria", "bases", "bison", "bureaus", "cacti", "château", "children", "codices", "crisis", "data", "deer", "diagnosis", "dice", "dwarfs", "ellipses", "faux pas", "fezes", "fish", "focu", "feet", "formulas", "fungi", "geese", "graffiti", "grouse", "halves", "hoofs", "lava", "loaves", "lice ", "media", "hypermedia", "minutiae", "mice", "nebulae", "nuclei", "offspring", "ova", "oxen", "parentheses", "phenomena", "radii", "referenda", "salmon", "scarfs", "sheep", "shrimp", "species", "stimulus", "swine", "symposia", "your mum", "teeth", "trout", "tuna", "vertebra", "vertices", "vortices", "wives", "wolves"]; if(window.location.hash) { theWord=window.location.hash.substr(1); } else { var theWord = words[Math.floor(Math.random() * words.length)]; } var span = document.getElementById('word'); while( span.firstChild ) { span.removeChild( span.firstChild ); } span.appendChild( document.createTextNode(theWord) ); $( "#comma" ).hide().delay(0).fadeIn( 6000 ); $( "#exclaim" ).hide().delay( 0 ).fadeIn( 6000 ); });