Each week on The Torrent we take the torrential downpour of information on the web, distill it into a fine spirit, and serve it nice and neat in your favorite tumbler. This week: the spies among us, oil spill at NPQ, and retiring via Twitter. Relax, enjoy.
Last week we here at NPQ we were all soccer crazy. Now we’ve all gone spy-crazy. What happened? It seems there are spies among us. Not to be confused with Spies Like Us, the brilliant Chase/Aykroyd project.
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FBI agents arrested 10 people in the United States on Sunday and three suspects in Arlington County as members of an alleged network of Russian spies. No word on what vehicles the Russian spies used, but it’s unlikely they were as distinctive as 007’s Aston Martin.
Speaking of distinctive things, every once in a while you still see something on the Web that makes you say, How’d they do that? In the case of this feature from Greener Media, a Brooklyn-based multimedia production company, and the cause marketers at Mark&Phil, it made me say, That is so cool and how’d they do that?
Watch as the BP oil spill takes over our website. And read James the Webmaster’s Newswire on the subject.
From one disaster to another, see this from the department of unintended consequences: The problem with giving free food to hungry people in Haiti. Bruce Trachtenberg, our fearless Newswire contributor, wrote earlier this week about the problem with giving free health care to sick people in Haiti.
There is hope, however—at least at the local level. One innovative restaurant has figured out a way to feed everyone that comes through its doors.
And lastly this week, we witnessed an end to an era. Larry King has decided to call it quits after all these years. He’s finally hanging up his suspenders. And in a sign of the times (and again evidence that you just can’t escape the torrent) CNN broke the news via Twitter.
I’ll leave you with some (17) things to ponder on your own. I need to get back to work. Here are 17 recommended music and movie websites from Paste Magazine. May I personally recommend She & Him?
Relax, enjoy. Til next time.
