diff --git a/README b/README
index a030cd456..d35820b66 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -31,16 +31,6 @@ the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly, e.g.:
 
 (This will start awesome on display :1 of the host foo.bar.)
 
-In order to display status info in the bar, you can do something
-like this in your .xinitrc:
-
-    while true
-    do
-        echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*,//'`
-        sleep 1
-    done | awesome
-
-
 Configuration
 -------------
 The configuration of awesome is done by creating a ~/.awesomerc file.