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Reading a book on functional programming from 1987, I was surprised by the author’s contact details:

I couldn’t figure it out at first – what country code is ‘.cs’? – but then I realised it’s expressed backwards, like an IP address. I wonder if this is the way that all domain names were expressed back then? I’ve never seen this before, so I thought I’d share it.

Cubitt photo from Vellum 7	Björk’s Vespertine album cover

Today’s BoingBoing showed a set of photos from Clayton James Cubitt which are quite beautiful. Most of them remind me very strongly of the artwork and fashion surrounding Björk‘s album Vespertine – all crazy smoke-trails and old-lace.

Inspired by Google Sightseeing, here are some fun or famous places for you to visit in the USA, from the comfort of your own country:

• Apple Computer, One Infinite Loop, Cupertino
• Microsoft Megacampus – most of Redmond, WA
• Very strange housing in Philadelphia – coastal housing on reclaimed land such that every single house has ocean at the bottom of the garden
• The site of the World Trade Center, Manhattan – ‘ground zero’
• Google campus, Mountain View

Here‘s an interesting article (from a marketing angle) about where on the results page people look when they do a google search. Pretty cool…