Okay, I know you like The Lileks

I liked the Lileks just fine, on 9/10/2001. He became a frothing gooberhead the next day. In the run-up to the Iraq Disaster, he kept smugly announcing things like "Sarah McLachlan is against our glorious crusade, so I'm deleting all her songs from my iPod! That'll larn her!" I eventually tired of going to his site, just to be called a treasonous retard when I got there. Then he said that a columnist he'd loved all his life dared to question the invasion, so he wasn't going to ever, ever read his work again. I stared at the monitor for a few seconds, then said "That's a very good idea" and deleted his link from my bookmarks. That'll larn him! And keep my blood pressure lower.

his two old-recipe books reminded me so much of the InExOb that I wanted to go back and make sure he hadn't ripped you off or anything

His page predates mine, but my exposure to it came long after the InExOb was up and running. I found it on someone's page of links that had both our pages on it.

if Lileks could turn the Institute into printed matter, why couldn't the same be done with the InExOb? Would there be too many commercial/legal clearances?

Probably not; it'd be considered Fair Use. There is the obstacle of my extreme laziness. You don't for how many years I've thought of opening a CafePress shop to sell some t-shirts--even if I'm the only one who buys them--but I'm deficient enough in Photoshop to not even try.