*I like the gritty, street-geek quality of their names. These must be great places to hang out when you're broke and homeless but can pretend to use a soldering iron.
*A hackerspace would also be a great setting for a hard-boiled detective novel. "Murder in the Hackerspace." See, they welded the sliding doors shut so that nobody could possibly get in or out, but nevertheless, the webmaster is dead and SOMEBODY must have killed him...
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/22_hackerspaces_at_maker_faire_detr.html
OmniCorp Detroit (OCD) – Detroit, MI
I3 – Ferndale, MI
All Hands Active (AHA) – Ann Arbor, MI
A2 MechShop – Ann Arbor, MI
Site3 – Toronto, OH
Hacklab.TO – Toronto, OH
Kwartzlab – Kitchener, ON
think|haus – Hamilton, ON
BloomingLabs – Bloomington, IN
Independent Media Center – Urbana, IL
LVL1 – Louisville, KY
Hive13 – Cincinnati, OH
Arch Reactor – St. Louis, MO
CCCKC – Kansas City, MO
Paper Street Motors – Detroit, MI
Pumping Station: One – Chicago, IL
Hack PGH – Pittsburgh, PA
Noisebridge – San Francisco, CA
LVL1 – Louisville, KY
Quad Cities Co-Lab – Quad Cities, IL/IA
Sector67 – Madison, WI
Interlock Rochester – Rochester, NY
*The Arduino did it
