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Friday, June 02, 2006

Difara Pizzeria, Brooklyn, New York City

Every great neighborhood needs a truly authentic pizzeria

Not surprisingly, one can find a pizzeria every few blocks in Italy.  It’s also not surprising that they use fresh ingredients, especially the mozzarella cheese.  Here’s a little recap.  However, it is surprising that one is often hard-pressed to find such a place anywhere in an entire city in the U.S., which is why Brooklyn’s Difara Pizzeria garners reviews like the following:

“I am the most impatient person you’ll ever meet and all who know me can attest to that.  Having to wait for food in

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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Sweet Waters, Grand Rapids, Michigan MI

How to build a Silicon Valley

If tech expert Paul Graham is right, all you need to build the next Silicon Valley is $600M to spend on professors to attract the talent, and quality neighborhoods to attract the investors.  In his words:

“I think you only need two kinds of people to create a technology hub: rich people and nerds. The exciting thing is, all you need are the people. If you could attract a critical mass of nerds and investors to live somewhere, you could reproduce Silicon Valley. What nerds like is other nerds.

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