Picture of the day

From the Houston Chronicle comes a look at the oil rig that started the whole mess and just how hard it'll be to plug up the leak.





From NASA come a satellite image of part of the slick. To get a sense of the scale, note that the two little bumps at the bottom left corner of the image are giant ass ships attempting to deal with the disaster. We posted an earlier satellite photo from NASA on the 26th. Click to really, really embiggen.