According to an email from the Broad, there are interconnects between Boston and Cambridge and no water should be consumed without boiling.

Got an update from the Broad and they feel confident now that there is no crosstalk between Cambridge and Boston water supplies. Sorry for the false alarm!

Off topic, but I thought this was the most appropriate thread. I just got a place in Somerville (lucky me ;-)). Are there any cool events around where you can meet people and make friends?

Meetup.com is great for this. I'd also recommend being active on twitter; plenty of events spread through there. Use http://search.twitter.com if you need a starting point. Check out http://greenhornconnect.com/ 's events section for startup-related stuff.

Cool! Thanks for the links!

Open shop night at Sprout community science lab in Davis Square, Tuesday and Thursday nights.

Also, google Willoughby and Baltic.

Totally OT, but Willoughby and Baltic seems dead to me. I live a block from there and I just go to Sprout. Its generally free, great people and a really friendly environment.

I just went by both locations I found online, Elm St and Joy St, and both are abandoned. Nobody answers the phone or returns my messages. I just wanted to check out their MakerBot CNC, but I guess I'm out of luck and they are, too. Very sad.

Wow, that's depressing.

They moved out of the Elm Street building a year ago, but I thought it was because the Joy Street building was awesome. It looks like the main organizer, Meredith, moved away, and the place died.

Well, I can confirm that at least Sprout is alive and kicking.

Thanks! I'll check it out. I will be living pretty close to Davis Square :-)

Yeah, according to people around MIT talking on zephyr we get our water from Fresh Pond.

Who uses Zephyr? Professors and staff who've been there a long time? I'm a grad student in CSAIL and have never once seen it in use.

My impression is that it's common mainly among undergrads. That also seems to be the case at CMU, though my knowledge is only second-hand in both cases.

MIT is still using zephyr? I didn't think it would still be in use 15 years later.

Yeah, though people have made better user interfaces for it. The particular space between Twitter and IM that it sits in doesn't seem to have been colonized by anything better yet.

EDIT: Though I'm sure there are people here who'd be happy to try :)