Quoted: In a year like this, we need a city upon a hill. Seattle, Fast Company's City of the Year, not only sprawls across seven hills but also boasts the ingredients that we believe will bring our communities -- and country -- back to prosperity: smarts, foresight, social consciousness, creative ferment.

Suck it Bostonians!

Quoted: The Seattle-Bellevue-Everett metro area has moved ahead of Boston to claim the title as the number two technology region in North America, according to a report released by the Milken Institute this week.

Quoted: Retailing powerhouse Best Buy and Seattle angel investor Geoff Entress have invested $1.6 million in Dashwire, a Seattle company that seamlessly integrates information between mobile devices and the Web.
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"We are cranking on some really cool things," Dashwire CEO Ford Davidson tells TechFlash. The company, which employs 11 full time and contract staffers, also plans to increase hiring as part of the new round.

Going to Ipanema for a team lunch.

Quoted: Rodizio, a popular Brazilian style of enjoying dinner among friends, is a unique dining experience.
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Rodizio offers a wide variety of different cuts of beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish and vegetables slowly roasted in specially designed charcoal grills that preserve all the natural flavors.

Quoted: The bridge over state Route 520, connecting Northeast 36th and 31st streets, is being planned in conjunction with Microsoft's larger campus expansion. Bloomberg reports that local planners are directing the $11 million to the project. Overall, Microsoft is contributing nearly half of the $36.5 million project cost.
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Still, Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, tells Bloomberg that the bridge isn't an appropriate use of the federal stimulus money: "I’m sure Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates could finance this out of pocket change. ... Subsidizing an overpass to one of the richest companies in the country certainly isn’t going to be the best use of our precious dollars."

Quoted: SEATTLE – Police have shut down Fifth Avenue at Union Street in downtown Seattle after a bank robber said he left a bomb behind.

Too bad TechFlash's header logo is background graphic or we could pick it.

Refaving Mo and Zach.

Quoted: TechFlash is an online news site dedicated to covering the technology industry in the Pacific Northwest. It is product of Puget Sound Business Journal led by veteran journalists Todd Bishop and John Cook, with contributions from PSBJ staff writer Eric Engleman.

Quoted: Still, the business [Classmates.com] continues to grow with 15.1 million active accounts and revenue of $57 million during the second quarter.

Unbelievable.