/*_/| 
	 =0-0=
	 \'I'|
	 |<|,,\_
	 |[>,,/,\ 
	 |[|,\_,,)
	 ((J(=_*/

This one is valid C/C++/ObjC, Java, PHP, CSS...

Brilliant!! This was actually what I was expecting.

But it makes me think - are there any code editors that you can literally just drag pictures in, or put in urls and it replaces them with pictures? I could be stuck in some IDE ghetto and not even know about these things.

You can probably do that with Emacs ;-)

(insert-image (create-image "/path/to/image/file")) inserts an image into a buffer.

But I'm not sure one would want to actually use that while editing; emacs is not very good about flowing text around the displayed image.

the code to do it starts with (

It shouldbe a minor mode that renders images instead of image-like URLs. Not that impossible to do. It's a bit beyond my magical powers, but I am sure it also ends with a ")"

auctex does the rendering-inside-text part, but I don't know of one that does it for html img tags

can't be hard

There's aview (ASCII-art image viewer which uses libaa); aview can render Ascii pictures to stdout.

aview solves a different problem

You can paste images into Dr.Racket.

Looks interesting... supports languages called Racket and Swindle...?!

obligatory:

http://wikifaqs.net/index.php/Admiral_Ackbar

You can also have it generate huge text with semicolons.

http://i54.tinypic.com/20ssqk7.png

... and for exactly the same reason, if you paste it into a comment (which seems like the most obvious use) then you lose.

This is a cat that can be pasted right in the middle of your code and everything will still work.

ASCII-art within comments is for n00bs ;-)

I prefer this out-of-code:

  　／l、 
  （ﾟ､ ｡ ７ 　
  　l、 ~ヽ　　　
  　じしf_, )ノ

(works best non-fixed-width, and requires Japanese characters)

I keep it here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/363028/ascii%20images.rtf (I should really add more...)

What about LOLCODE? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

I suppose, the corpus of the lolcat meme could be harvested as an alternative to Lorem Ipsum.

Actually, such sites would have entertainment value of themselves.

Using LOLSPEAK as an alternative to lorem ipsum would be hilarious. At least, to a subset of people.

Coincidentally, I had created a lorem ipsum generator made from the nonsensical names of tech startups back in 2007. I haven't updated the names in years though, but maybe I should. (Apologies for seeming spammy; that's not my intent at all. Just thought I'd share.)

http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/the-web-20-lorem-ipsum-genera...

Wouldn't be hard to tweak that for LOLSPEAK at all.

That is pretty brilliant. As a wise man once said, "Guba simpy bebo, zecco plazes moola gpokr."

Thanks! It amuses me to see where it's creeped up too: http://www.google.com/search?q=Eskobo+goowy+manjam

http://www.lorizzle.nl/ It's been tweaked for "Gangsta speak"

That's awesome. I'll have to hang onto that site for my next lorem use :)

Though I don't know if I want to know what this means: "we gonna chung a funky fresh"

You can also do Loorum Eepsoom - paste Lorem Ipsum into a Swedish Chef translator.

Makes me laugh, anyway.

I'll see your LOLspeak non-spammy link with one of my own, a lolspeak translator written in JavaScript http://www.txt2lol.com/

This will now be my "code coming soon" cat =]