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A refined drinking culture

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We gathered last night to discuss the art and history of craft cocktails and spirits. Before the discussion began, our panelists help set the mood by mixing some craft cocktails. Panelist…

If you want something done right do it yourself

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With perfect weather and a number of new faces in the crowd we gathered to discuss art discourse in Philadelphia. Rather, the current lack-thereof. There was plenty of frustration voiced regarding…

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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Our panel of librarians and technologists and a crowd of eager contributors met to discuss possible futures of the library. Moderator Nate Hill is a blogger for the Public Library Association…

The Medical Cultural Revolution

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Our latest gathering attempted to straighten the chicane of the Healthcare industry, specifically the storage and transmission of medical data. Mark Scrimshire of CareFirst BC and HealthCamp led a discussion with…

It takes a panel...

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Creative communities, a selfish endeavor?! Certainly, shared individual aims are often achieved more easily through collaboration. These points go [somewhat] uncontested. Only a select few are capable of agape collaboration, the…

To Ludd or not to Ludd

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Quoth moderator Dave Speers quoth Socrates, "An unexamined life is not worth living". Access to the modern extensions of man have made the reflexive deconstruction of the self unavoidable. Or something…

Musical Darwinism

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Our latest gathering of informed individuals pertained to the past, present, and future of the infirm Music Industry. Some backstory: EMI is in the middle of a large-scale layoff. Madonna now…

Appropriateness is Godliness

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There is an ongoing debate at P'unk Avenue, recently rekindled by a Design Observer article, regarding the value of giving a client "what they asked for" and giving a client…

Corner Office ≠ Corner Store: Urban Planning & The Workplace

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Recently Alex (Gilbert) rediscovered this article by Malcolm Gladwell that Geoff had read when it was published in 2000. It recontextualizes the meat of Jane Jacobs's seminal 1961 book, "The Death…

Sitemaps for sore eyes

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Members Josh Kopel and John Romanski posed an interesting problem for group postulation: is there a better easier faster cheaper way to map a project? After a few warm-up laps groups…