Its so sad there isn't a site with everything in plain sensible formats. data.gov seems like a good start. But a plain text UI (like gopher or ftp) seems bett

Its so sad there isn't a site with everything in plain sensible formats. data.gov seems like a good start. But a plain text UI (like gopher or ftp) seems better. A subfolder for each state. And a subfolder for each department. Maybe something like Linux's /proc for laws and federal data.