Susan and I were making travel arrangements to Paris last night. (We’re heading there in a week and a half or so to meet a friend who’s there on business.)

While reserving a hotel room, I ran across the following bit as a piece of a larger legal disclaimer:

This Web site is offered to you, the customer, by Travelscape, Inc. trading as ‘Eurostar Planet’, a Nevada Corporation c/o 3150 139th Avenue SE Bellevue, WA 98005 (“Eurostar Planet”).

So this is a Nevada company, run out of Washington, pretending to be French, selling hotel rooms to people in the United Kingdom, using a U.S. credit card, billed to an address in London.

Ah, the wonders of the global economy…