Paul Rademacher's oil spill/Google maps tool

The Engineering Manager for Google Maps has a tool that will let you gauge the size of the Gulf Coast oil spill by superimposing it onto various locations. So very depressing, but informative.

Question: am I the only one who thinks the larger blob of the spill is sort of like a big, scary, environment destroying bird? If I could draw, that would be my editorial cartoon about the spill.