wa3.org is for sale…could be a fantastic BuzzFeed redirect…

But wait, it gets weirder.  Simo Bennani, the real-life Facebook Simo, is a Moroccan dude with a mustache making a gun symbol with his fingers. and we're already friends. WTF! I don't recall adding Simo as a friend, nor have I ever even heard of a Simo before his posting of the Wa3 image seen here on BuzzFeed.  My theory, therefore, is that Simo Bennani is much more than just a guy in a cowboy hat.  Let me explain. Simo Bennani, when read backwards, is Inanneb Omis, or “Inanne bomis.” Drop an “n”, and you've got “Inane Bomis.”. Inane, as you probably know, is defined as “lacking significance, meaning, or point.” Bomis, I just learned, is a dot-com company which provided the primary funds for Jimmy Wales to start Wikipedia - the internet's very center for collective truth and meaning.  But if it is indeed inane, as our friend Simo is trying to tell us, then the entire archive of truth, meaning, and knowledge, online at least, lacks true significance and point.  Wa3, therefore, is literally the Internet's human face, staring out unto the world from within, looking sad, somewhat stunned, and defeated, a result of years of endless soul searching for a meaning that was to never exist. It's trying to be human, it's trying to relate, it's trying to tell us that the center of online knowledge, Wikipedia, is “lacking significance, meaning, or point.” But we knew that, Internet, and that's why we've created BuzzFeed. It's for you. Happy New Year. Hopefully your next post, Wa4, will be a smile.

After hours of painstaking Internet research, I have narrowed down the possible meanings of Wa3 to the following likely candidates: 1. Wa3 is a reference to the WA3 floppy disk controller. In his own quiet, beautiful way, Simoo is mourning the unheralded passing of the once-proud floppy disk. This is why he is wearing all black. 2. Wa3 stands, simply, for “We are 3.” The first is Simoo; the second is the pirate; and the third has yet to reveal himself. Or else the third is all of us. This is an extremely profound idea. 3. Wa3 is the Woodward Avenue Action Association. Listen to their mission statement: “The WA3 works to bring business people, residents, community leaders, elected officials and stakeholders together.” Then look deep into those soulful brown eyes and ask yourself: “Is this something that Simoo would want?” I think the answer is yes. 4. Wa3 stands for “Weak A3,” which is a mathematical theorem related to quantum logic. Or, in more simple terms: wa3 (((a v b) v c) == (a v (b v c))) = 1. 5. The answer lies not in the definition of Wa3, but in the search for it. For in seeking the unknowable, we come to truly know ourselves. I think this is the most likely explanation.

As of right now only 1,861 people have seen Wa3. So many people are missing out.

viral marketing for iron man 2. that, or some kind of dark knight re-release. i see the joker in his pupils. that's it. that's what this is.

Basically this amounts to viral self-promotion, it seems at least. Either a huge scam, a mistake, secret code or some inside reference, or some average looking guy's ticket to notoriety the next time he prowls the craigslist casual encounters section.

wa3 is clearly the waaaah? sound, expressed in Chinese pinyin. dunno about the 4iy. That's just wrong.

also, i love the matching tie/shirt combo.