Really you should be designing for the content, a practice that pretty much precludes the use of placeholder text. That said, our new rule is, if you’re going to use placeholder text, use Slipsum — Samuel L. Ipsum (probably NSFW).

Sure it defeats the purpose of Lorem Ipsom entirely by being distractingly, hilariously readable, but sometimes when you’re slogging through a boring project you need a little humor.

Slipsum comes in two varieties, regular, NSFW Pulp Fiction quotes and Lite quotes without the swearing.

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This is what you see when you visit the South Park website with JavaScript turned off or Flash uninstalled. You may also see it if you’re running Giorgio Maone’s NoScript extension for Firefox. Either way, now you know what to do, hippie.

[Thanks, Burris!]

In response to the overwhelming turnout for Day Without Google, the search giant has announced it will withdraw its flagship product, the Google search engine, later in April.

“We will continue to provide our enterprise search solutions and popular hosted applications, but we know when we’re not wanted,” sniffed a Google spokesperson via email this afternoon. “Google plans to concentrate its resources on continuing innovation in areas other than search.”

Google.com‘s reported 200 million hits per day dropped to fewer than two dozen hits today as a result of the 2008 DWG initiative, as web users worldwide avoided the famous search engine and used alternate engines instead. Google’s public-facing search page will be taken down “after a short transition period.” It has not yet been announced what will replace the iconic page.

Gabe Schwarzer, the video creator who brought us the original Mac vs. PC "South Park" style parody ad is back with a sequel. Gabe wrote in to tell us his Mac vs. PC vs. Linux video is up on his website.

In the credits, Gabe notes that he used the South Park Studios app to make the characters. He also says he created the video on a PC and a Mac "because one just isn’t enough." I guess that tells us exactly how he feels about Linux — presuming the video doesn’t settle the issue in the first place.

[via Wild Tree Design]

Essentially a role-playing game (RPG), Forumwarz humorously mocks internet culture – satirizing the flame wars, comment trolls, terrible grammar and other mainstays of the web. It’s a pretty funny way to while away a Friday, (though not safe for work).

Forumwarz bills itself as "a role-playing game so epic you will never again leave your mom’s basement."

It’s hard to go wrong with roles like Troll, Camwhore or Emo Kid. And just like your run of the mill RPG, each character has its own abilities, or lack thereof.

Should you decide to actually play, the goal is to wreak havoc on a series of fake websites, accumulating cred as you go. But even if you don’t play the game, the trailer is enough to make you smile.

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Whether the proposed Yahoo-Microsoft merger has you in knots or it’s just a slow afternoon, here’s your Friday dose of nerd humor to get you into the weekend. As always, xkcd delivers. Damn those Emacs gurus.