this link takes you to a interactive timeline that allows scrolling through time.
it's useful as an antidote to the fragmentation of the sense of duration that can follow from the flat world of the dominant media (off the edge of attention is off the world altogether) and of a long thread like this one (in the microcosm).
BP oil spill: interactive timeline | Environment | guardian.co.uk
the official volunteer site:
Serve.gov | Gulf Coast Oil Spill: How You Can Help
a rather grim real-time statistics projection website.
Realtime Stats on the Amount of Oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
the conversion which tell us the number of olympic swimming pools that the oil could fill doesnt seem to be updating. it stopped at 171 bad in the old days when only an estimated 661000 bbl or so had leaked. there's a bit over twice that now. so maybe 350?
meanwhile, the weather's apparently good today so bp is starting the process of swapping out the cap on the leaking well for another that's tighter.
here's the plan:
The Oil Drum | BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Hooking up Helix Producer and Plans for New Cap - and Open Thread
and a lousiana based page that's about gathering local/granular information about the oil and its consequences & directing folk toward resources.
Communities on the Horizon
the organizing is difficult to get one's head around from a distance....