Maya Lin’s Green Memorial. What Is Missing? focuses on extinct and vanishing species, and incorporates sculpture, video, sound, hand-held electronics, printed material and an interactive website. More at Maya Lin’s Studio.

Revealing the true state. Shining a light. Via TED.

America has a new Website. And this time it’s for Health Care. It allows you to find insurance options, learn about prevention, compare care quality and understand the new law. That section includes a handy map to show you, the visitor, which states are choosing to not partake when it comes to pre-existing conditions, thus leading to the Federal government running the New Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). Funny how most of those states choosing to sit this one out are rather conservative leaning. Ah, irony.

The site itself seems like a very useful tool, especially for someone like me who does pretty much everything online. So thanks Barack, for the nice new site. I’m really pulling for the rest of the law to be as clear, concise and effective.

Learn About Prevention

The PCIP Map

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Jonathan Harris (b. Aug 27, 1979) makes projects that reimagine how humans relate to technology and to each other. His We Feel Fine Book is awesome. His TED talk is great. His one photo a day is nice. Take some time to look through all his projects.

Work

Big Omaha 2010

Big Omaha is Silicon Prairie News’ (SPN) premier event, held each May in Omaha, Nebraska. This year’s speakers include Tony Hsieh of Zappos.com, Dennis Crowley of foursquare and Scott Harrison from Charity: Water.

There’s a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs who are passionately making their mark on our community and Big Omaha is for them. This event brings together the region’s best and brightest to motivate, challenge, excite and connect with one another, and in turn raise the bar on the level of work we’re producing.

Should be a good time. And props, of course, to the guys at Oxide Design for the nice, nice design.

From Big Omaha 2009

Work – Life: The boundaries between work and life are more blurred than they’ve ever been.

design mind is a media platform that includes a print magazine, a website, videos, and events. Written by frog designers, technologists, and strategists, design mind articles provide the design and innovation community with perspectives on industry trends, emerging technologies, and global consumer culture. design mind also features interviews with high-profile thought leaders, along with contributions from external writers, designers, and photographers.

Some articles you can read there:

Re-Imagining the Postal Service

The Next Generation of Microfinance

Teach Design: The Importance of Failure

The New Social Currency

Touchfrastructure Meets the HypePad

life on the virtual frontier

From PBS FRONTLINE, a report on the digital revolution and how it’s changing our lives.

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we’ve gained?

Living Faster, Relationships, Waging War, Virtual Worlds and Learning Web Exclusives go further, from iPods to drone attacks to how Google saved a school. 

From this lover of FRONTLINE, consider me really looking forward to my (digital) weekend.