I have to say, I'm somewhat disappointed that "fakeimg.pl" isn't actually powered by a perl script with the same name, but by Python.

You are not the first one to tell me that.

Older similiar service: http://placehold.it/

There's also the lovely and whimsical http://placekitten.com/

Also http://placedog.com/ and for the refined taste, http://placebear.com/ .

This is my favorite by far.

Interestingly that page never stops loading for me and drives Chrome nuts. It keeps loading tons of different images and the icon for stop/refresh alternates between the two states a couple times per second.

I saw that too. When looking at the Chrome developer tools you can see a bunch of stuff being loaded.

Something weird is going on with the favicon for me (Chrome 25.0.1323.1 dev-m). It's kind of flashing/glitching. Anyone else?

Don't forget the infamous CageMe: http://cageme.herokuapp.com/

I didn’t know that one, haha.

Link to the project page (nice simple design): http://fakeimg.pl/

I whipped up something similar in Go recently. There's no README yet, but it uses cgo to link to ImageMagick for resizing, and serves up a folder of jpgs.

https://github.com/georgebashi/pugholder (edit: you can see it running at http://pugholder.com/)

The one that started them all http://dummyimage.com/

nice work. shameless plug for placeguitar that i put together a while ago - also in python. On github https://github.com/poissonpie/Place-Guitar

did a fork where i'm adding a "geek mode" for generating images based on the XKCD map http://xkcd.com/1110/ tiles , but it's gonna take a while

génial ! i was searching for something like that , i'll try to make a django app out of it asap . cheers.