Angelina is a sucker for tattoos. Apparently, she's got at least 13 known tatts -- not including the couple that she's had removed -- like the "Billy Bob" tattoo on her left shoulder. If any of you have been stumped by the weird mess of letters and numbers occupying the real estate that used to belong to Thornton, they're not hieroglyphics. They're actually a little nerdier/cooler than that.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, they're the map coordinates of where each of her four children were born -- you know latitude, longitude, minutes, all that junk. Apparently, geotagging geeks the world over are all excited about Jolie inking 2 more coordinates on her shoulder so they can look them up on Google Earth.


Unlike the cryptic lines spotted on Brad's back last week -- which are either Sanskrit prayers or something to do with New Orleans -- Angelina's tatts seem to have a more straight-forward motherly significance. Way to pick something that you don't feel ashamed of in 5 years.

Geotagging may be kinda nerdy, but at least it's not as nerdy as getting a tattoo removed. We have to call B.S. on this whole tattoo-removal trend. It's really screwing up one of the only things about tattoo that were cool in the first place: the fact that they're permanent. In AJ's own words, "a tattoo is something permanent when you've made a self-discovery, or something you've come to a conclusion about." Oh yeah? Then deal with it.