Brian Hurt

***"New York News and Book Talk" is currently inactitive due to the organizer's travel abroad. Sign on for the notice when it restarts! If you read newspapers or blogs; if you watch news or listen to NPR; or if you read books regularly, you may want to find people to talk to about what you learned about the state of the world. Join us!

ATHEISTS GROUP WHOSE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS THE SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. FOR DETAILS: WWW.NYC-ATHEISTS.ORG

This group is a dynamic active group which participates in local as well as national politics. From time to time we have speakers. We also discuss ways to improve the Democratic party and take action. Prior to a primary we do not support any particular candidate but rather we hope to bring IMPORTANT ISSUES to all of the democratic candidates…

This is a social networking group for NYC area Java developers, managers, recruiters, basically anyone with an interest in Java technologies. We feature technical presentations (round table demos from anyone) depending on the meeting location. Feel free to bring a presentation, a demo, flyers, make an announcement or ask questions. We usually adjou…

What happens when you put farscape fans, Stargate fans, star trek and star fans all under the same roof with comic book fans and fantasy fans and even..*gasp*...science fiction writers?????? Answer: They all sit down and talk about scifi. Join us!

Meet other local programmers interested in Ocaml, Haskell, SML, and other functional programming languages. Lisp and Scheme programmers are also welcome, but note that the focus of the group is on statically typed languages of the ML family.

We play the two boardgames DIPLOMACY and RISK. We usually meet together with the NYC Boardgames & Cardgames Meetup.