So the Government has released various data about the oil spill and response efforts at <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.energy.gov/open/oilspilldata.htm">http://www.energy.gov/open/oilspilldata.htm</a> I thought it was neet when I scrolled down and there spreadsheets were in both xls and the open format ods. It would be better if all items were in open format but is is a start. On a related but not related note that may be of interest there is an underwater robotics competition in Chandler <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.h2orobots.org/zindex.htm">http://www.h2orobots.org/zindex.htm</a> This could be cool and is sort of the foundation of all they are doing in the gulf<div>

<br></div><div>-James Finstrom</div>