Looking to feel depressed? The Times has an interactive map of the BP oil spill.

BP, those cheeky scamps, are always coming up with madcap ways to quell that oil spill. Today's effort involved threading a tube into the leaking well and just, like, SUCKING, the oil up to the surface. It failed. [AP]

Nobody knows exactly how big this oil spill is, but one thing is certain: BP's public relations effort has been disastrous. Even the PR guy for Xe Services, the mercenary company formerly known as Blackwater, thinks BP has bungled it.

First it was a big stopper, then they wanted to, like, bung stuff in the leaking well, then it was a smaller stopper. Now BP plan to stop the oil by, you know, putting a tube in. [AP]

On last night's Daily Show, Jon pointed out just how screwed we might be with this oil spill. Apparently at this point, containment of the spill is now completely anagram based.

So it turns out that the widely-accepted figure of 5,000 barrels leaking every day into the Gulf is more like 25,000, and BP is accused of failing to use standard techniques to find an accurate number. Shocking! [NYT]

Via Twitter BP released a short underwater video of oil and gas gushing into the ocean thanks to the petroleum giant's oil rig accident last month. It's amazing to watch, until you realize it's absolute destruction. [Yahoo!]

The first BP megadome didn't work. Now golf balls, hair clippings and pillows are being thrown into action. And after lying on Capitol Hill yesterday, the oil company has deployed a smaller "top hat" dome for the leak. [CNN, Getty]

The BP oil spill is spread across an estimated 2,500 square miles, and is dumping at least 200,000 gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico every day. What would that look like in New York?

BP tried putting a box over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. That didn't work. But now they have a new idea! They're just going to, like, you know, bung it up with mud and stuff. [AP]

The company responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill wants you to know that they're working very hard to fix it. They've capped one leak! And now they're towing a concrete "dome" to the site to contain the spill.

Procter & Gamble is absolutely thrilled about this massive oil spill, because the free PR they get for cleaning off oily animals with Dawn™ brand soap is priceless. For the rest of us, bad news: it's worse than you thought.

A "gag-inducing smell," believed to be a byproduct of the nearby oil spill, is hanging over New Orleans. Think "if a bus was in front of you blowing out exhaust fumes right in your face." Laissez le mauvaise odeur rouler!

Remember the controversial Google Health blog post that suggested the best
defense against Michael Moore's one-sided Sicko documentary was a targeted ad offensive? Well, it looks like oil giant BP was listening. Faced with strong criticism over a recently won permit that will allow it to dump 54% more ammonia and 35% more solid waste into Lake Michigan, BP is using Google Ads to fight back, targeting Slashdot readers and others with ads that link to the Facts about BP's Whiting Refinery. Unable to participate in the "very democratic and effective public advertising dialogue" envisioned by Google, local leaders settle for an old-school Letter to the Editor.