Either I never noticed it before or it's new—and I'm pretty sure it's new—but the Southern Poverty Law Center now has a Flash-based web presentation of Maya Lin's Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery. Once it loads, click once to begin and then you can go around the table's edge to mark the names and dates. There are only two dimensions here and no water, but it's worth the time. [You can also see it here.]

Maybe it was there before and I couldn't find it, but I spent a decent amount of time on the tolerance.org site just after the holidays. On the way to see my parents, S and I stopped there (it's becoming an annual visit) and went inside the Memorial Center. What most impressed me is the way the Memorial Center isn't just reading and contextualizing the Memorial in the Movement, but expanding the scope of the Memorial, to remember others whose murders were less well known at the time of the design and dedication. Some people know that the Memorial was rededicated in 2000 to Johnnie Mae Chappell, whose name does not appear on the stone table. But here, on this virtual memorial, her name now joins the circle.

It's an impressive extension of the Memorial, making the memory, the purpose, central, and able to re-write the physical design, a most unusual monument.