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An aerial view of the salty new Facebook HQ - 1 Hacker Way

By | December 8, 2011, 12:33pm PST

Summary: Street cred for a mainstream Silicon Valley company comes cheap…

Facebook is about to move in to Sun Microsystems’s former campus, whose address has changed from Network Drive to Hacker Way.

I took photos of the campus (above and below) on a recent trip aboard “The Farmers Airship” (Geeks On An Airship - Don’t Call It A Blimp! - SVW).

Right next to the campus are massive ponds, gradually evaporating to produce salt for commercial uses.

The colors are caused by algae that thrive in the super-concentrated brine.

Some of the salt fields have been sculpted into Pac-Man shapes.

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Tom Foremski reports on the business and culture of Silicon Valley at the intersection of technology and media.

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Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski is the editor and publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher and Silicon Valley Watch. Tibco Software is an advertiser.

Biography

Tom Foremski

In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the popular news blog Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business of Silicon Valley.

Tom arrived in San Francisco in 1984, and has covered US technology markets for leading computer journals around the world.

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